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Dangerous Encounters Daniel Touro Linger

Dangerous Encounters By Daniel Touro Linger

Dangerous Encounters by Daniel Touro Linger


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This text examines violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, looking at two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-fact encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation.

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Dangerous Encounters Summary

Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City by Daniel Touro Linger

This book examines violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo, looking at two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-fact encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation.

Dangerous Encounters Reviews

Linger's book is a rare and exceptionally worthwhile treatment of the role played by violence in the lives of ordinary Brazilians. . . . Engagingly written, handsomely printed, with excellent photographs . . . and richly illustrated with several dozen interview statements that attain a life of their own, the book provides an indispensable analysis of the unwritten rules of Brazilian social intercourse. . . . A model study of use not only to specialists on Brazil. -- Choice
A fascinating and original study of violence in Brazilian popular culture. . . . It is difficult to do justice in a review of this length to the richness of Linger's book-the high quality of his writing, the way he illuminates Brazilian history and historiography, the 'thickness' of his ethnographic descriptions, and the intelligence of his theoretical discussions. -- Bulletin of Latin American Research
An especially important contribution, drawing on a range of different theoretical perspectives . . . and on especially rich and varied ethnographic accounts. -- American Anthropologist

Table of Contents

CONTENTS 1. 2. II 3. 4. 5. III 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. IV 11. 12.

Additional information

CIN0804725896VG
9780804725897
0804725896
Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City by Daniel Touro Linger
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Stanford University Press
19950101
308
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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