Prologue: Sugar House
Introduction: Tropical Sadness
Chapter 1: O Nordeste: Sweetness and Death
Chapter 2: Bom Jesus: One Hundred Years Without Water
Chapter 3: Reciprocity and Dependency: The Double Ethic of Bom Jesus
Chapter 4: Delírio de Fome: The Madness of Hunger
Chapter 5: Nervoso: Medicine, Sickness, and Human Needs
Chapter 6: Everday Violence: Bodies, Death, and Silence
Chapter 7: Two Feet Under and a Cardboard Coffin: The Social Production of Indifference to Child Death
Chapter 8: (M)Other Love: Cultue, Scarcity, and Maternal Thinking
Chapter 9: Our Lady of Sorrows: A Political Economy of the Emotions
Chapter 10: A Knack for Life: The Everyday Tactics of Survival
Chapter 11: Carnaval: The Dance Against Death
Chapter 12: De Profundis: Out of the Depths
Epilogue: Acknowledgments and Then Some
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index

J.I. Staley Prize 2000, School of American Research

Wellcome Medal for Anthropology as applied to medical problems 1994, Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britian and Ireland

Bryce Wood Book Award, Latin American Studies Association

First prize for the Best Book in the 1992, Harry Chapin Media

Finalist in the general non-fiction category given by the National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Critics Circle Award

1992 Eileen Basker Memorial Prize, Society for Medical Anthropology