Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 614 pages)
,
illustrations
Ausgabe:
[Pbk. ed., 1993]
ISBN:
9780520911567
,
0520911563
,
0585197571
,
9780585197579
Anmerkung:
"A Centennial book"--Half title page
,
Includes bibliographical references (pages 567-587) and index
,
Prologue: sugar house -- Introduction: tropical sadness -- O 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.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 0520075374
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520075375
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Scheper-Hughes, Nancy Death without weeping Berkeley, Calif. : University of California Press, 1993, ©1992 ISBN 0520075366
Sprache:
Englisch
