Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
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Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment
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Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment is a 2005 ethnographic study of Vita, a Brazilian center for those abandoned by their families, written by anthropologist João Biehl during his fieldwork there from 1995–2003. Vita combines the social-science genres of life history and ethnography through its focus on one resident of Vita, Catarina, her navigation of the Brazilian medical system, and her abandonment by her family. Biehl interweaves narration about Vita with excerpts from Catarina's writ
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2005 Brazilian ethnography book
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2022-07-24T07:40:53Z
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