Death without Weeping (Häftad)
avNancy Scheper-Hughes
ISBN: 9780520075375 - UTGIVEN: 199311When 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 an[...]
Saints, Scholars And Schizophrenics (Pocket)
avNancy Scheper-hughes
ISBN: 9780520224803 - UTGIVEN: 2001-01-03This study was first published in 1983. It traces the social disintegration of "Ballybran", a small village on the Dingle Peninsula in Ireland, exploring the symptoms of the communities decline: from emigration to schizophrenia. This edition contains a new preface and epilogue.[...]
Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology (Inbunden)
avEditor:Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Editor:Philippe Bourgois
ISBN: 9780631223481 - UTGIVEN: 2003-11-30
Violence in War and Peace (Häftad)
avNancy Scheper-Hughes, San Philippe Bourgois, Philippe Bourgois
ISBN: 9780631223498 - UTGIVEN: 200311From Hannah Arendt's 'banality of evil' to Joseph Conrad's 'fascination of the abomination', humankind has struggled to make sense of human-upon-human violence. Edited by two of anthropology's most passionate voices on this subject, "Violence in War and Peace: An Anthology" is the only book of its k[...]
