The invention of the favela /

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"For the first time available in English, Licia do Prado Valladares's classic anthropological study of Brazil's vast, densely populated urban living environments reveals how the idea of the favela became an internationally established--and even attractive and exotic--representation of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Valladares, Licia do Prado (Author)
Other Authors: Anderson, Robert Nelson (Translator)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Portugués
Published: Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2019]
Series:Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução.
Subjects:
Slums > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > History.
Poor > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Pauvres > Brésil > Rio de Janeiro.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Latin America > South America.
Poor
Slums
Social conditions
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Social conditions.
Brazil > Rio de Janeiro
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Genesis of the Rio favela: from country to city, from rejection to control
  • The shift to the social sciences
  • The favela of the social sciences
  • The favela, the web, and the census: a disconcerting reality.

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