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Laughter Out of Place

Paperback • 2013 • English

Laughter Out of Place

By Donna M. Goldstein

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Donna M. Goldstein presents a hard-hitting critique of urban poverty and violence and challenges much of what we think we know about the "culture of poverty" in this compelling read. 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 in Rio de Janeiro, who cope with unbearable suffering, violence and social abandonment. The book offers a clear-eyed view of socially conditioned misery...Show more

Society and Social Sciences
Sociology and anthropology

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9780520276048

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Laughter Out of Place

Format

Paperback

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