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| Other authors / contributors: | Anderson, Robert Nelson, translator.
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| ISBN: | 9781469649993
1469649993
9781469650005
1469650002
9781469649979
1469649977
9781469649986
1469649985
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| Notes: | Translation of: A invenção da favela : do mito de origem a favela.com. Rio de Janeiro : Editora FGV, 2005.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 30, 2019).
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| Summary: | "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 poverty. The study traces how the term'favela'emerged as an analytic category beginning in the mid-1960s, showing how it became the object of immense popular debate and sustained social science research. But the concept of the favela so favored by social scientists is not, Valladares argues, a straightforward reflection of its social reality, and it often obscures more than it reveals.The established representation of favelas undercuts more complex, accurate, and historicized explanations of Brazilian development. It marks and perpetuates favelas as zones of exception rather than as integral to Brazil's modernization over the past century. And it has had important repercussions for the direction of research and policy affecting the lives of millions of Brazilians. Valladares's foundational book will be welcomed by all who seek to understand Brazil's evolution into the twenty-first century."--EBSCO.
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| Other form: | Print version: 9781469649979 1469649977
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