ANTA02H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Morphophonology, Somatization, Catholic Guilt
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This is about the socially produced indifference to a child death. Seen through the eyes of nancy scheper-hughes as she lives in brazil. In alto de cruzeira women often have miscarraiges, one of the things women cling to is a child being baptized and protected by a saint. Nailza and ze antonio suffered many miscarriages, nancy lives with them. For nancy she faced a confusing situation as she had to figure out how she can help these seemingly broken women realize that their life doesn"t have to be filled with a succession of replacement babies . Nancy initially grieved deeply over a baby"s death as in her homeland babies don"t die and if they do it is a deeply sorrowful event. It wasn"t that long ago that child mortality rates were much like brazile within the. In fact, up until the mid 19th century in europe and na child mortality was not counted among deaths.
