Death without weeping : the violence of everyday life in Brazil / Nancy Scheper-Hughes.

Berkeley : University of California Press, [1993], ©1993.

xiii, 614 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

1st paperback ed.

"A Centennial book"--Half t.p.

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: our of the depths.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 567-587) and index.