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Article: Waiting for Rain: the Politics and Poetry of Drought in Northeast Brazil.(Book review)
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- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
- Article date:
- September 1, 2006
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ARONS, NICHOLAS GABRIEL. Waiting for rain: the politics and poetry of drought in Northeast Brazil. xxvii, 251 pp., map, illus., bibliogr. Tucson: Univ. Arizona Press, 2004. $36.95 (cloth), $17.95 (paper)
Very occasionally, a book happens along which is so honest and raw in its treatment of an otherwise dispassionate subject (in this case drought) that it can move the reader to tears. Nicholas Arons has accomplished just such a rare feat in his poetry-studded narrative of the reasons for, and the multi-layered reactions to, the cyclical phenomenon of drought in northeastern Brazil. In his carefully rendered descriptions of the dusty towns of the inland sertao, as ...
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