[PDF] Death Without Weeping eBook

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 38,65 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520911563

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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.

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 22,40 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0520075374

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"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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A "womanly hearted" account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness, and death that centers on the lives of women and children of a hillside favela in Northeast Brazil.

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2001-01-03
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0520224809

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"Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics, in its original form--now integrally reproduced in the new edition--is a most important seminal study of an Irish community."—Conor Cruise O'Brien

Author : João Biehl
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 21,23 MB
Release : 2013-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520951468

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Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil’s big cities—places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist João Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the "dictionary" she is compiling; and to trace the complex network of family, medicine, state, and economy in which her abandonment and pathology took form. An instant classic, Vita has been widely acclaimed for its bold fieldwork, theoretical innovation, and literary force. Reflecting on how Catarina’s life story continues, this updated edition offers the reader a powerful new afterword and gripping new photographs following Biehl and Eskerod’s return to Vita. Anthropology at its finest, Vita is essential reading for anyone who is grappling with how to understand the conditions of life, thought, and ethics in the contemporary world.

Author : Nicholas Gabriel Arons
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,90 MB
Release : 2004-10
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780816524334

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"Drawing on interviews with artists and poets and on his own experiences in the Brazilian Northeast, Arons has written an account of how drought has impacted the region's culture. He intertwines ecological, social, and political issues with the words of some of Brazil's most prominent authors and folk poets to show how themes surrounding drought - hunger, migration, endurance, nostalgia for the land - have become deeply embedded in Nordeste identity. Through this tapestry of sources, Arons shows that what is often thought of as a natural phenomenon is actually the result of centuries of social inequality, political corruption, and unsustainable land use."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 11,82 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Social Science
ISBN :

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A "womanly hearted" account of the everyday experience of scarcity, sickness, and death that centers on the lives of women and children of a hillside favela in Northeast Brazil.

Author : Claude Levi-Strauss
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 34,32 MB
Release : 2012-01-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1101575603

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"A magical masterpiece."—Robert Ardrey. A chronicle of the author's search for a civilization "reduced to its most basic expression."

Author : Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 43,12 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780520209183

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"A wake-up call to those who are honestly concerned with global childhood safety."—Carol Stack, author of All Our Kin

Author : Anne C. Bailey
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 28,36 MB
Release : 2017-10-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1108141218

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In 1859, at the largest recorded slave auction in American history, over 400 men, women, and children were sold by the Butler Plantation estates. This book is one of the first to analyze the operation of this auction and trace the lives of slaves before, during, and after their sale. Immersing herself in the personal papers of the Butlers, accounts from journalists that witnessed the auction, genealogical records, and oral histories, Anne C. Bailey weaves together a narrative that brings the auction to life. Demonstrating the resilience of African American families, she includes interviews from the living descendants of slaves sold on the auction block, showing how the memories of slavery have shaped people's lives today. Using the auction as the focal point, The Weeping Time is a compelling and nuanced narrative of one of the most pivotal eras in American history, and how its legacy persists today.