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Culture Scarcity And Maternal Thinking Summary

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The article, “Culture, Scarcity, and Maternal thinking”, written by Nancy Scheper - Hughes, focusses on the culture, scarcity and maternal thinking. It is based on mothers, death of their infant children and their motherhood on a shantytown on a hillside in Brazil named Alto do Cruzerio. Approximately 1 million children under the age of five die each year in Brazil and the author mentions various factors behind the death of these infants. Poverty is the serious problem found in every country, and always has negative consequences and brings lots of problems. Same is the problem and situation with the women in Alto do Cruzerio. Many of them are uneducated, poor and unable to feed themselves. These mothers mentions large number of their infants

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