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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780520075375 |
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| Distributor Name |
International Book Distributors |
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;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj,new Delhi-110002 |
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;112482 |
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;07/07/2018 |
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| Classification number |
303.6098 HUG |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Death without weeping |
| Remainder of title |
:the violence of everyday life in Brazil |
| Statement of responsibility, etc |
/ Nancy Scheper-Hughes |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
Berkeley, Calif. |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
: University of California Press |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
, 1993 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 614 pages |
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;24 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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| Price amount |
4434 |
| 505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Contents note |
Prologue: sugar house --<br/>Introduction: tropical sadness --<br/>O nordeste: sweetness and death --<br/>Bom Jesus: one hundred years without water --<br/>Reciprocity and dependency: the double ethic of Bom Jesus --<br/>Delirio de fome: the madness of hunger --<br/>Nervoso: medicine, sickness, and human needs --<br/>Everyday violence: bodies, death, and silence --<br/>Two feet under and a cardboard coffin: the social production of indifference to child death --<br/>(M)other love: culture, scarcity, and maternal thinking --<br/>Our lady of sorrows: a political economy of the emotions --<br/>A knack for life:. the everyday tactics of survival --<br/>Carnaval: the dance against death --<br/>De profundis: out of the depths --<br/>Epilogue: acknowledgments and then some. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
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 of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness, and death that centers on the lives of the women and children of a hillside favela. These are the people who inhabit the underside of the once-optimistic Brazilian Economic Miracle and who are being left behind in the shaky transition to democracy." "Bringing her readers to the impoverished slopes above the modern plantation town of Bom Jesus da Mata, where she has worked on and off for twenty-five years, Scheper-Hughes follows three generations of shanty-town 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." "Death Without Weeping is a work of breadth and passion, a nontraditional ethnography charged with political commitment and moral vigor. It spirals outward, taking the reader from the wretched huts of the shantytown into the cane fields and the sugar refinery, the mayor's office and the legal chambers, the clinics and the hospitals, the police headquarters and the public morgue, and finally, the municipal grave-yard of Bom Jesus." "Ethnography and literary sensibility merge to capture the "mundane surrealism" of life in Bom Jesus da Mata. With resonances of such anthropological classics as the writings of Oscar Lewis, Death Without Weeping is a tour de force that will be discussed and debated for many years to come. |
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Social Sciences |
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Social Processes |
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Poor women -- Brazil, Northeast. |
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Mother and infant -- Brazil, Northeast. |
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Violence -- Brazil, Northeast. |
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Brazil, Northeast -- Social conditions. |
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Brazil, Northeast -- Social life and customs. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society. |
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Mother and infant. |
| 700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy |
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Books |
