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Love for the Land investigates the power and potential of people-place relationships

With tongue firmly in cheek

With a foreword by Stephen M

Vita International law when claims circulate that asZones of social abandonment are emerging everywhere in Brazil's big cities places like Vita, where the unwanted, the mentally ill, the sick, and the homeless are left to die. This haunting, unforgettable story centers on a young woman named Catarina, increasingly paralyzed and said to be mad, living out her time at Vita. Anthropologist Joo Biehl leads a detective like journey to know Catarina; to unravel the cryptic, poetic words that are part of the