Death Without Weeping (Nancy Scheper-Hughes, 1992, University of California Press)
a few notes on Chapters 11 and 12 (these should not be treated as a comprehensive study guide, rather as a starting point for your studies and class discussion)

Check out the Anglican Church's controversial Che as Christ poster

mother love as a bourgeois myth
"little angels"
saudades (see pp. 435-437)
pena
fatalism and agency
strategy v. tactic (from de Certeau)
    jeito

Carnival
    *destroying the world to remake it
    *Victor Turner on liminality
    * ritual inversion, turning the social order on its head, social license
    * contesting the order of things, satire, resistance from domination

the Disgusting Gypsies
the Transvestite Dames

Liberation theology as the real transgression
    priest's sermon on page 519
    stations of the cross
    St. Christopher celebration and the blessing of the cars
    St. John's day bonfire

silence

How does Carnival in Bom Jesus compare to the Brazilian national stereotype of Carnival based on Rio and other famous celebrations?

How does the Carnival of the wealthy and middle classes differ from that of the moradores of the Alto?

Why does Scheper-Hughes say that the Bom Jesus celebration is for the men, not the women?

Scheper-Hughes argues that the real "transgressive rituals" are liberation-theology inspired reinterpretations of Catholic rituals.  How are these played out?