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Small Wars: The Cultural Politics of Childhood
Berkeley, California, University of California Press, 1999. First Edition. Softcover. Size: Large 8vo 9" - 10. A big, fat, accessible, juicy, disturbing, evocative reader in the cultural politics of motherhood and reproduction. Sterling condition softcover copy, with unfurled tips, tight binding, and clean internals, showing only very slight shelf- and edge-wear. Contributions by the two editors and by Daphna Birenbaum-Carmeli, Caroline B. Brettell Donna M. Goldstein, Philippe Bourgois, John A. Grett, Matthew C. Gutmann, Michael Harris, Daniel Hoffman, Jill E. Korbin, J.S. La Fontaine, Leonard B. Lerer, Lynn Mo. Morgan, Susan Neiermeyer, Maria B. Olujic, Mary Picone, Elizabeth F.S. Roberts, Carolyn Sargent, Meira Weiss and Linda M. Whiteford. Volume contains scholarly apparatus in the form of, e.g., notes, index, and bibliography. Frontis matter, 1-429 pp.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. . . . Near Fine
Structure, Verses, Agency BooksProfessional sellerBook number: 358044
USD 18.00 [Appr.: EURO 16 | £UK 13.5 | JP¥ 2566]
Catalogue: Gender Studies
Keywords: Nancy Scheper-Hughes Carolyn Fishel childhood reproduction fertility fecundity
Death Without Weeping : The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xiii, 614 pp. Textual photos,graphs,tables. Binding corners bumped, top binding edge rubbed, VG. dustwrappe
Expatriate Bookshop of DenmarkProfessional sellerBook number: BOOKS005583I
USD 50.00 [Appr.: EURO 44 | £UK 37.5 | JP¥ 7127]
Keywords: Social Anthropology, Brazil, Sociology, Poverty, Ethnography, Latin America, Pernambuco, Women, Children
Death Without Weeping: the Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993.. First paperback edition XIII + 614 p., b/w photogr, glossary, bibliogr., index SOFTCOVER: (Orig. paperb. VERY GOOD)
¶ Fine scholarly , based on empirical research. 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". .
¶ Fine scholarly , based on empirical research. 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". .
Antiquariaat SigmaProfessional sellerBook number: 2303
€ 23.01 [Appr.: US$ 26.18 | £UK 19.75 | JP¥ 3732]
Catalogue: Brasil
Keywords: Latin America South America Brasil Brazil Sociology Sociological Society anthropology & ethnograph economics politics poverty violence
Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics : Mental Illness in Rural Ireland
Berkeley, Univ. of California Press, 1984. orig.wrappers. 21x24cm, xiv,245 pp. PAPERBACK.. Textual illustrations.. Rubbed. Corner bumped. Good.
¶ Contents: Mental Illness and Irish Culture; In Space and in Time; The People Left Behind; Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics; Brothers, Sisters, and Other Lovers: Marriage, Celibacy, and Relations Between the Sexes; Problems in Rural Irish Socialization; "Breeding Breajs Out in the Eye of the Cat": Sex Roles, Birth Order, and Irish Double Bind; Toward a Responsive Human Community.
¶ Contents: Mental Illness and Irish Culture; In Space and in Time; The People Left Behind; Saints, Scholars, and Schizophrenics; Brothers, Sisters, and Other Lovers: Marriage, Celibacy, and Relations Between the Sexes; Problems in Rural Irish Socialization; "Breeding Breajs Out in the Eye of the Cat": Sex Roles, Birth Order, and Irish Double Bind; Toward a Responsive Human Community.
Expatriate Bookshop of DenmarkProfessional sellerBook number: BOOKS018134I
USD 38.00 [Appr.: EURO 33.5 | £UK 28.5 | JP¥ 5417]
Keywords: Medical Anthropology, Schizophrenia, Ireland, Statistics, Mental Illness, Ethnopsychology, Social Psychiatry, ,
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