Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents IX
3. Prologue: Sugar House XI
4. Introduction: Tropical Sadness 1
5. 1. O Nordeste: Sweetness and Death 31
6. 2. Bom Jesus: One Hundred Years Without Water 65
7. 3. Reciprocity and Dependency: The Double Ethic of Bom Jesus 98
8. 4. Delírio de Fome: The Madness of Hunger 128
9. 5. Nervoso: Medicine, Sickness, and Human Needs 167
10. 6. Everyday Violence: Bodies, Death, and Silence 216
11. 7. Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death 268
12. 8. (M)Other Love: Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking 340
13. 9. Our Lady of Sorrows: A Political Economy of the Emotions 400
14. 10. A Knack for Life: The Everyday Tactics of Survival 446
15. 11. Carnaval: The Dance Against Death 480
16. 12. De Profundis: Out of the Depths 505
17. Epilogue: Acknowledgments and Then Some 534
18. Notes 541
19. Glossary 557
20. Bibliography 567
21. Index 589