Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Invention of the Tourist Favela -- 1.1. The favela in the imaginary -- 1.2. The favelas of tourism -- 1.2.1. The favela, a relative urban category -- 1.2.2. Tourist favelas: Rocinha, Santa Marta and Vidigal -- 1.3. The rise of the favela tour, contextual elements -- 1.3.1. Mega-events and favela tours -- 1.3.2. Pacification -- 1.3.3. Tourism and pacification -- 1.4. History of the favela tours -- 1.4.1. 1992-2008: the pioneers of favela tour success -- 1.4.2. 2008-2016: the rise of the favela tours -- Chapter 2. Visiting the Favela -- 2.1. A typical excursion with Favela Tour -- 2.1.1. On the way to the favela -- 2.1.2. Visiting Rocinha -- 2.1.3. Stop in Vila Canoas -- 2.2. Constants and variations of the favela tour model -- 2.2.1. The common foundation of favela tours -- 2.2.2. Main variations of the favela tour model -- Chapter 3. Advantages of Tourist Mediation: The Guides of Rocinha -- 3.1. The guides, a variety of profiles and issues -- 3.1.1. Marcelo and Roberto, the external companies and the distanced gaze -- 3.1.2. Zezinho and Tony, the favela from the inside -- 3.1.3. Obi, Erik and Paolo, the indigenous guides -- 3.1.4. Alex and the independent guides -- 3.2. The privilege of mediation -- 3.2.1. New political intermediaries? -- 3.2.2. Away from mediation -- Chapter 4. Distinguished Practices, Practices of Distinction -- 4.1. Criticism and distinction -- 4.1.1. A valorized practice -- 4.1.2. A criticized practice -- 4.1.3. Anti-tourist tourists, between legitimization and criticism -- 4.1.4. The denial of the tourist setting -- 4.2. Distinction, the driving force behind tourism in the favelas? -- 4.2.1. Ritualization and de-ritualization of tourism practices -- 4.2.2. Distinction in tourism -- 4.2.3. The legitimate culture of travel.

4.2.4. The functioning of the distinction -- Chapter 5. The Authenticity of the Favela -- 5.1. The favela and the "real Brazil" -- 5.2. Praise of the non-touristic -- 5.2.1. A perpetually renewed tourist opening -- 5.2.2. The denial of merchants in the favelas -- 5.3. The authenticity of poverty -- 5.3.1. The spontaneity of the favelas -- 5.3.2. A culture of poverty -- 5.4. Tourism, slum and poverty -- Chapter 6. From Exoticism to Authenticity -- 6.1. Exoticism -- 6.1.1. Exoticism, deictics and dialectics -- 6.1.2. Movement in space, travel in time -- 6.1.3. Exoticism of the end and the end of exoticism -- 6.2. Authenticity, a scientific exoticism? -- 6.2.1. Anthropology and authenticity -- 6.2.2. Uniformity of the world and authenticity -- Chapter 7. The Favela in the Market of Otherness -- 7.1. Authenticism and the crisis of otherness -- 7.2. Miniature worlds -- 7.3. Otherness and tourism, between celebration and domestication -- Chapter 8. Gazes -- 8.1. Describing the gazes -- 8.2. The interactional norms of the gaze -- 8.2.1. Photographs and norms -- 8.2.2. From the photograph to the gaze -- 8.2.3. The gazed and the gazers -- 8.3. The space of the gaze -- 8.3.1. The modalities of the gaze -- 8.3.2. The danger of the gaze -- 8.3.3. Space of the gaze and authenticity -- Chapter 9. Reality and the Tourism Frame -- 9.1. Narrative frame and experience -- 9.2. The tourism experience frame -- 9.2.1. The guide, a professional when it comes to framing -- 9.2.2. Framing and reframing -- 9.3. Avoidance and exclusion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index -- EULA.