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Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown (Public Anthropology, 9)
Laughter Out of Place Race Class Violence and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown - Public Anthropology, 9
Author: Donna M. Goldstein
Donna M. Goldstein challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty." Drawing on more than a decade of experience in Brazil, Goldstein provides an intimate portrait of everyday life among the women of the favelas, or urban shantytowns. These women have created absurdist and black-humor storytelling practices in the face of ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520235977
ISBN-10: 0520235975
Publication Date: 11/27/2003
Pages: 384
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
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