1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910463166403321

Autore

Goldstein Donna M

Titolo

Laughter out of place : race, class, violence, and sexuality in a Rio shantytown / / Donna M. Goldstein ; with a new preface

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

0-520-95541-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (401 p.)

Collana

California Series in Public Anthropology

California series in public anthropology

Disciplina

305.5/68/098153

Soggetti

Marginality, Social - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Poor - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Slums - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Violence - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Sex - Brazil - Rio de Janeiro

Electronic books.

Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface to the 2013 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Laughter "Out of Place" -- Chapter 2. The Aesthetics of Domination. Class, Culture, and the Lives of Domestic Workers -- Chapter 3. Color-Blind Erotic Democracies, Black Consciousness Politics, and the Black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna -- Chapter 4. No Time for Childhood -- Chapter 5. State Terror, Gangs, and Everyday Violence in Rio de Janeiro -- Chapter 6. Partial Truths, or the Carnivalization of Desire -- Chapter 7. What's So Funny about Rape? -- Notes -- Glossary -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996418257903316

Autore

Almeida Jorge

Titolo

Profinite semigroups and symbolic dynamics / / Jorge Almeida [and three others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2020]

©2020

ISBN

3-030-55215-2

Edizione

[1st ed. 2020.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (IX, 278 p. 67 illus., 4 illus. in color.)

Collana

Lecture notes in mathematics (Springer-Verlag) ; ; 2274

Disciplina

512.2

Soggetti

Profinite groups

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This book describes the relation between profinite semigroups and symbolic dynamics. Profinite semigroups are topological semigroups which are compact and residually finite. In particular, free profinite semigroups can be seen as the completion of free semigroups with respect to the profinite metric. In this metric, two words are close if one needs a morphism on a large finite monoid to distinguish them. The main focus is on a natural correspondence between minimal shift spaces (closed shift-invariant sets of two-sided infinite words) and maximal J-classes (certain subsets of free profinite semigroups). This correspondence sheds light on many aspects of both profinite semigroups and symbolic dynamics. For example, the return words to a given word in a shift space can be related to the generators of the



group of the corresponding J-class. The book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in mathematics or theoretical computer science.