Prologue : Sugar House Xl
Introduction : Tropical Sadness 1
CHAPTER 1 0 Nordeste : Sweetness and Death 31
CHAPTER 2 Born Jesus : One Hundred Years W ithout 65
Water
CHAPTER 3 Reciprocity and Dependency : The Double 98
Ethic of Born Jesus
CHAPTER 4 Delirio de Fame : The Madness of Hunger 128
CHAPTER 5 Nervoso : Medicine, Sickness, and Human 167
Needs
CHAPTER 6 Everyday Violence : Bodies, Death, and 216
Silence
CHAPTER 7 Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin : 268
The Social Production of Indifference to
Child Death
CHAPTER 8 (M)Other Love : Culture, Scarcity, and 340
Maternal Thinking
CHAPTER 9 Our Lady of Sorrows : A Political Economy 400
of the Emotions
CHAPTER 10 A Knack for Life : The Everyday Tactics of 446
Survival
CHAPTER 11 Carnaval: The Dance Against Death 480
CHAPTER 12 De Profundis : Out of the Depths 505
Epilogue: Acknowledgments and Then Some 534
Notes 541
Glossary 557
Bibliography 567
Index 589