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ISBN 978-0-520-27295-8

eISBN 9780520951464

The Library of Congress has cataloged an earlier edition of this book as follows:

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Biehl, João Guilherme.

Vita : life in a zone of social abandonment / João Biehl ; photographs by Torben Eskerod.

p.cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-520-24278-4 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Vita (Asylum : Porto Alegre, Brazil)2. Institutional care—Brazil—Porto Alegre.3. Marginality, Social—Brazil—Porto Alegre.I. Title.

HV63.B6B542005

362’.0425’09815—dc22

2005041745

Manufactured in the United States of America

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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992 (R 2002) (Permanence of Paper).