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

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

by Goldstein (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: First Edition, with a New Preface ed.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 12 Nov 2013

ISBN 10: 0520276043
ISBN 13: 9780520276048