Death without weeping: the violence of everyday life in Brazil
@article{Flowers1992DeathWW,
title={Death without weeping: the violence of everyday life in Brazil},
author={Nancy May Flowers},
journal={Cadernos De Saude Publica},
year={1992},
volume={8},
pages={214-216}
}highlighted starvation amidst plenty. Brazil grew very rapidly, at 7 percent per year from 1940 to 1980, but under ruthless military rule from the late 1960s to 1982, the incidence of malnutrition increased, particularly in the poverty-stricken Northeast. Nancy ScheperHughes's ethnography of this region (Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1992) portrays in heart-rending detail the predicament of mothers forced by food…
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