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Title: Janice E. Perlman papers
Date (inclusive): 1960-2007
Collection Number: 2015C24
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: In Portuguese and English
Physical Description:
152 manuscript boxes, 2 oversize boxes, 2 oversize folders
(65.7 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Writings, studies, reports, notes, and printed matter relating to urban poverty in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, internal migration
in Brazil, and urban poverty elsewhere in the developing world. In part, used as research material for Perlman's books
The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro (Berkeley, 1976) and
Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Creator:
Perlman, Janice E.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives
The collection is open for research; materials must be requested in advance via our reservation system. If there are audiovisual
or digital media material in the collection, they must be reformatted before providing access.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2015.
[Identification of item], Janice E. Perlman papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
American political scientist.
Scope and Content of Collection
Writings, studies, reports, notes, and printed matter relating to urban poverty in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, internal migration
in Brazil, and urban poverty elsewhere in the developing world. In part, used as research material for the book by Janice
E. Perlman,
The Myth of Marginality: Urban Poverty and Politics in Rio de Janeiro (Berkeley, 1976). Includes several hundred questionnaire responses of favela dwellers in Rio de Janeiro in 1969.
Incremental materials include Perlman's 2008 follow up interviews with favela community members that were published her in
Favela: Four Decades of Living on the Edge in Rio de Janeiro (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Urban poor
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Social conditions
Brazil -- Social conditions