Vita : Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.

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Author / Creator:	Biehl, João.
Imprint:	Berkeley : University of California Press, 2013.
Description:	1 online resource (457 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) Institutional care -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) Marginality, Social -- Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) Institutional care. Marginality, Social. Brazil -- Porto Alegre (Rio Grande do Sul) Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11216388

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ISBN:	9780520951464 0520951468 1299952887 9781299952881 9780520272958 0520272951
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-430) and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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 João 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.
Other form:	Print version: Biehl, João. Vita : Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment. Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2013 9780520272958

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