The invention of the favela /Licia do Prado Valladares ; translated by Robert N. Anderson.
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, (c)2019.
- 1 online resource.
- Latin America in translation/en traducción/em tradução .
Translation of: A invenção da favela : do mito de origem a favela.com. Rio de Janeiro : Editora FGV, 2005.
Includes bibliographies and index.
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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Slums--History.--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro Poor--Brazil--Rio de Janeiro.