Death Without Weeping

The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil

By: Nancy Scheper-Hughes

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Paperback | 9 November 1993 | Edition Number 1

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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, the author 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. The author also wrote "Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland".

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"Hauntingly beautiful. . . . [The] richly detailed qualitative analysis has thoroughly convinced this reader, at least, of her arguments linking maternal behavior and child death."--"American Anthropologist

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Prologue: Sugar House
Introduction: Tropical Sadness
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 Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
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