Death Without Weeping

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 slop...

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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, the author 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. The author also wrote "Saints, Scholars and Schizophrenics: Mental Illness in Rural Ireland".

Prologue : Sugar House Xl
Introduction : Tropical Sadness 1
CHAPTER 1 0 Nordeste : Sweetness and Death 31
CHAPTER 2 Born Jesus : One Hundred Years W ithout 65
Water
CHAPTER 3 Reciprocity and Dependency : The Double 98
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Prologue : Sugar House Xl
Introduction : Tropical Sadness 1
CHAPTER 1 0 Nordeste : Sweetness and Death 31
CHAPTER 2 Born Jesus : One Hundred Years W ithout 65
Water
CHAPTER 3 Reciprocity and Dependency : The Double 98
Ethic of Born Jesus
CHAPTER 4 Delirio de Fame : The Madness of Hunger 128
CHAPTER 5 Nervoso : Medicine, Sickness, and Human 167
Needs
CHAPTER 6 Everyday Violence : Bodies, Death, and 216
Silence
CHAPTER 7 Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin : 268
The Social Production of Indifference to
Child Death
CHAPTER 8 (M)Other Love : Culture, Scarcity, and 340
Maternal Thinking
CHAPTER 9 Our Lady of Sorrows : A Political Economy 400
of the Emotions
CHAPTER 10 A Knack for Life : The Everyday Tactics of 446
Survival
CHAPTER 11 Carnaval: The Dance Against Death 480
CHAPTER 12 De Profundis : Out of the Depths 505
Epilogue: Acknowledgments and Then Some 534
Notes 541
Glossary 557
Bibliography 567
Index 589
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