DEATH WITHOUT MISERY Nancy Scheper-Hughes - The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil

Death Without Mercy is a scarce ethnological account of women in a Brazilian favela (shantytown\slum).

This is a used book in good condition: light reading creases\curls to corners; cover is clean with general age and scuffing; excellent binding with a couple of light, superficial spine creases; pages are nice and clean and aging lightly. See photos for cover blurb, condition and sample pages. The book in the photos is the actual book you will receive - we never use stock pictures - enjoy!

Publisher's blurb: 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.

Book Details

Code: SKU1685

Condition: See notes and photos below

Binding: Large Paperback

Pages: 614

Published: 1993 by University of California Press, USA

ISBN: 0520075374

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