Author: Linger, Daniel Touro
Title: Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, (1992). orig.cloth. 23x15cm, xv, 289 pp. Textual maps & tables.. Minor rubbing, slight page-edge soil, VG. Dustwrapper. ¶ Ethnographic study of violence in Carnival & 'briga' [street confrontation]in São Luis, Brazil. Contents: Introduction: Fateful Encounters; The City; Carnival: The Violence in Carnival; Anything Goes!; Playing to the Limit; Briga: Preliminaries; Exacerbations; Disequilibrium; Exits; The Murder of Sérgio; Conclusion: The Cultural Cybernetics of Violence; Brazilians & their Discontents; Appendices.

Keywords: Cultural Anthropology, Sao Luis, Brazil, Violence, Sociology, Social Psychology, Urban Ethnography, Ethnology, South America