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Death Without Weeping presents a detailed ethnography of life in the shantytown scape of Bom Jesus da Mata, a hillside favela in Northeast Brazil. Over twenty‑five years of fieldwork, Nancy Scheper‑Hughes documents how chronic scarcity, sickness, and violent daily realities shape the lives of women and children. She follows three generations of shanty‑town women as they navigate labor, survival strategies, and the limited resources of public institutions such as clinics, police headquarters, and municipal morgues. Scheper‑Hughes argues that conventional notions of maternal love are constrained by structural poverty, exposing how infant mortality and social inequality intertwine with gendered experiences in this community.
First publish date: 1992
Genre: Psychology/Social Psychology
Authors: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
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