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Death without weeping: the violence of everyday life in Brazil

Nancy Scheper-Hughes
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Prologue: Sugar House (page xi)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • CHAPTER 1 O Nordeste: Sweetness and Death (page 31)
  • CHAPTER 2 Bom Jesus: One Hundred Years Without Water (page 65)
  • CHAPTER 3 Reciprocity and Dependency: The Double Ethic of Bom Jesus (page 98)
  • CHAPTER 4 Delírio de Fome: The Madness of Hunger (page 128)
  • CHAPTER 5 Nervoso: Medicine, Sickness, and Human Needs (page 167)
  • CHAPTER 6 Everyday Violence: Bodies, Death, and Silence (page 216)
  • CHAPTER 7 Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death (page 268)
  • CHAPTER 8 (M)Other Love: Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking (page 340)
  • CHAPTER 9 Our Lady of Sorrows: A Political Economy of the Emotions (page 400)
  • CHAPTER 10 A Knack for Life: The Everyday Tactics of Survival (page 446)
  • CHAPTER 11 Carnaval: The Dance Against Death (page 480)
  • CHAPTER 12 De Profundis: Out of the Depths (page 505)
  • Epilogue: Acknowledgments and Then Some (page 534)
  • Notes (page 541)
  • Glossary (page 557)
  • Bibliography (page 567)
  • Index (page 589)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
WQ 17.3 (Summer 1993): 89 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40258736
HAHR 75.4 (Nov. 1995): 714-716 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2518093
CS 22.3 (May 1993): 351-352 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2074492
PDR 21.1 (Mar. 1995): 176-179 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2137420
CJLACS 19.37/38 (1994): 337-340 http://www.jstor.org/stable/41799903
JLAS 25.2 (May 1993): 419-420 http://www.jstor.org/stable/158189
MAQ 8.3 (Sep. 1994): 346-349 http://www.jstor.org/stable/649193
JRAI 49.1 (Spring 1993): 73-77 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3630630
MAQ 8.3 (Sep. 1994): 349-351 http://www.jstor.org/stable/649194
AE 20.4 (Nov. 1993): 844-847 http://www.jstor.org/stable/646234
LBR 30.1 (Summer 1993): 142-144 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3514204
WRB 10.1 (Oct. 1992): 6-7 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4021358
AANTH 95.2 (Jun. 1993): 495-497 http://www.jstor.org/stable/679903
JSocH 28.2 (Winter 1994): 363-379 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3788903
Citable Link
Published: c1993
Publisher: University of California Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780520911567 (ebook)
  • 9780520075375 (paper)
  • 9780520075368 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Latin American
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