Dangerous Encounters

Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City

• Author(s): Daniel Touro Linger,
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Pages: 289
• ISBN_10: 0804725896
  ISBN_13: 9780804725897
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Anthropology / General , History / General , Social Science / Violence in Society ,

Description:... 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.