Death without weeping : the violence of everyday life in Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes.
- Scheper-Hughes, Nancy
- Date:
- [1993], ©1993
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Publication/Creation
Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993], ©1993.
Physical description
xiii, 614 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Notes
"A Centennial book"--Half t.p.
Contents
O Nordeste: sweetness and death -- Bom Jesus: one hundred years without water -- Reciprocity and dependency: the double ethic of Bom Jesus -- Delírio de Fome: the madness of hunger -- Nervoso: medicine, sickness, and human needs -- Everyday violence: bodies, death, and silence -- Two feet under and a cardboard coffin: the social production of indifference to child death -- (M)other love: culture, scarcity, and maternal thinking -- Our lady of sorrows: a political economy of the emotions -- A knack for life: the everyday tactics of survival -- Carnaval: the dance against death -- De profundis: out of the depths.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-587) and index.
Reproduction note
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2014. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.