Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown: 09 (California Series in Public Anthropology)

by Goldstein (Author)

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  2013

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  Presents a critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the culture of poverty . In this title, the author provides a portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns in Rio de Janeiro, who cope with unbearable suffering, violence and social abandonment.