Dangerous Encounters: Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City

Author/Contributor(s):	Linger, Daniel Touro
Publisher:	Stanford University Press
Date:	01/01/1995
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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.