On people and variables: the ethnography of a political belief
In the Brazilian Federal District (Brasilia), the local government's distribution of lots encourages thousands of people to enlist on its housing programs. Applicants are required to provide documentary proofs; these are classified according to variables, which are then fed into an equation des...
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
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| Online Access: | http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-93132006000200004&lng=en&tlng=en |