Death without weeping : the violence of everyday life in Brazil /

"When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When people are assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the celebrated parched lands of Northeast Brazil, Death Without Weeping is a luminously written, "womanly hearted" account o...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Scheper-Hughes, Nancy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1993, ©1992.
Edición:[Pbk. ed., 1993].
Temas:
Poor women > Brazil, Northeast.
Mother and infant > Brazil, Northeast.
Infants > Brazil, Northeast > Death.
Violence > Brazil, Northeast.
Femmes pauvres > Nordeste (Brésil)
Mère et nourrisson > Nordeste (Brésil)
Nourrissons > Nordeste (Brésil) > Mort.
Violence > Nordeste (Brésil)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Violence in Society.
Infants > Death
Manners and customs
Mother and infant
Poor women
Social conditions
Violence
Armoede.
Krottenwijken.
Dagelijks leven.
Vrouwen.
Kinderen.
Brazil, Northeast > Social conditions.
Brazil, Northeast > Social life and customs.
Nordeste (Brésil) > Conditions sociales.
Nordeste (Brésil) > Mœurs et coutumes.
Northeast Brazil
Noordoost-Brazilië.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Prologue: sugar house
  • Introduction: tropical sadness
  • O nordeste: sweetness and death
  • Bom Jesus: one hundred years without water
  • Reciprocity and dependency: the double ethic of Bom Jesus
  • Delirio 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
  • Epilogue: acknowledgments and then some.

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