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Dangerous Encounters – Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City Paperback - 1995
by Daniel Touro Linger
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- Title Dangerous Encounters – Meanings of Violence in a Brazilian City
- Author Daniel Touro Linger
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Fourth Printing
- Condition New
- Pages 308
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford Univ Pr, Stanford
- Date 1995
- Bookseller's Inventory # x-0804725896
- ISBN 9780804725897 / 0804725896
- Weight 0.88 lbs (0.40 kg)
- Dimensions 8.98 x 6.02 x 0.68 in (22.81 x 15.29 x 1.73 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 303.6
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Intimacies of slavery, savageries of civilization: irony is a hallmark of Brazilian self-portraits.
From the rear cover
"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
"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