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