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favelaIn Brazil, a slum or shantytown. A favela comes into being when squatters occupy vacant land at the edge of a city and construct shanties of salvaged or stolen materials. Communities form over time, often developing an array of social and religious organizations and forming associations to obtain such services as running water and electricity. Sometimes the residents (favelados) manage to gain title to the land and then are able to improve their homes. Because of crowding, unsanitary conditions, poor nutrition, and pollution, disease is rampant in the poorer favelas, and infant mortality rates are high. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| The favelas of Rio are well known as self-governing communities, randomly assembled and built without permission or in accordance with any building regulations. Samba had no pure tie to the favelas because it developed in a more fluid exchange between the favelas and the working and middle-class, white and mixed race neighborhoods of Rio. They brought dance to favelas (slums), prisons, and Indian tribes. |
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