Death Without Weeping
Subtitle: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil (Centennial Book)
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: November 9, 1993
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 628
ISBN-13: 9780520075375
Subjects: Anthropology; Cultural studies; Death & dying; Social groups & communities; Violence in society; Women's studies; Movements - Behaviorism; Infants; Sociology; Psychology; Brazil; Poor women; General; Latin America - South America; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Brazil, Northeast; Death; Mother and infant
First sentence: We begin, then, with the context, the "600,000 square miles of suffering," as Josue de Castro (1969) described them, that constitute the pockmarked face of the Brazilian Northeast.