Scheper-Hughes, Nancy.

Death without weeping the violence of everyday life in Brazil / [electronic resource] : Nancy Scheper-Hughes. - 1st pbk. ed. - Berkeley : University of California Press, c1993. - xiii, 614 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

"A Centennial book"--Half t.p. E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/

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

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.

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--Brazil, Northeast.--Brazil, Northeast.--Death.--Brazil, Northeast--Brazil, Northeast.


Brazil, Northeast--Social conditions.
Brazil, Northeast--Social life and customs.

Poor women Mother and infant Infants Violence