Vita : Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment.

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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