Laughter Out of Place

Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown

Donna M. Goldstein

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University of California Press
29 September 2013

Poverty & unemployment; Gender studies: women; Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies; Anthropology; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: California Series in Public Anthropology

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 while focusing on the creative responses-absurdist and black humor-that people generate amid daily conditions of humiliation, anger, and despair. Goldstein helps us to understand that such joking and laughter is part of an emotional aesthetic that defines the sense of frustration and anomie endemic to the political and economic desperation among residents of the shantytown.

By: Donna M. Goldstein
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: First Edition, with a New Pref ed.
Volume: 9
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 544g
ISBN: 9780520276048
ISBN 10: 0520276043
Series: California Series in Public Anthropology
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 29 September 2013
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Donna M. Goldstein is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

Reviews for Laughter Out of Place: Race, Class, Violence, and Sexuality in a Rio Shantytown

""Goldstein returns anthropology to what it does best while taking the reader on a no-holds-barred ride through the tragicomic world of a Rio favela. She captures the bittersweet laughter of Brazil's vast subterranean underclass of domestic servants who keep their anger and despair at bay by laughing and spitting into the face of chaos, injustice, and premature death.""