Death Without Weeping
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Death Without Weeping

The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil

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Death Without Weeping

The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil

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When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and death that centres on the lives of the women and children of a hillside "favela". Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus de Mata, where she has worked on and off for 25 years, Nancy Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shantytown women as they struggle to survive through hard work, cunning and triage. It is a story of class relations told at the most basic level of bodies, emotions, desires and needs. Most disturbing - and controversial - is her finding that mother love, as conventionally understood, is something of a bourgeois myth, a luxury for those who can reasonably expect, as these women cannot, that their infants will live. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.
When lives are dominated by hunger, what becomes of love? When assaulted by daily acts of violence and untimely death, what happens to trust? Set in the lands of Northeast Brazil, this is an account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness and dea

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
ISBN
9780520911567
Edition
1
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Cultural & Social Anthropology
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. Prologue Sugar House
  6. Introduction
  7. 1 O Nordeste
  8. 2 Bom Jesus
  9. 3 Reciprocity and Dependency
  10. 4 DelĂ­rio de Fome
  11. 5 Nervoso
  12. 6 Everyday Violence
  13. 7 Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin
  14. 8 (M)Other Love
  15. 9 Our Lady of Sorrows
  16. 10 A Knack for Life
  17. 11 Carnaval
  18. 12 De Profundis
  19. Epilogue Acknowledgments and Then Some
  20. Notes
  21. Glossary
  22. Bibliography
  23. Index