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Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
Joao Biehl
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Description for Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
Paperback. Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities - places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This title centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Num Pages: 456 pages, 43 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 23. Weight in Grams: 850.
Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities--places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the dictionary she is compiling; and to trace the complex network of family, medicine, state, and economy in which her abandonment and pathology took form. An ... Read more
Zones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities--places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joao Biehl leads a detective-like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the dictionary she is compiling; and to trace the complex network of family, medicine, state, and economy in which her abandonment and pathology took form. An ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
456
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520272958
SKU
V9780520272958
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About Joao Biehl
Joao Biehl is Professor of Anthropology at Princeton University. His website is www.joaobiehl.net. Torben Eskerod is an artist and works as a freelance photographer in Copenhagen.
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