Author: SCHEPER-HUGHES, NANCY
Title: Death Without Weeping: the Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
Description: 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". .

Keywords: Latin America South America Brasil Brazil Sociology Sociological Society anthropology & ethnograph economics politics poverty violence


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