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• catalog abstract "This book is about violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Luis. It describes how people think about and negotiate dangerous encounters - vital and disturbing experiences that, when they go wrong, yield moral failure, humiliation, and death. Brazilians, like people elsewhere, worry about the perils of coming face-to-face with the wrong person, at the wrong time, under the wrong circumstances. The book discusses two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-face encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation. When playing becomes fighting, Carnival's samba, fueled by the controlled venting of dangerous passions, gives way to the explosive pas de deux of the street fight. Sao-luisenses tell vivid, sometimes terrifying, stories of verbal and physical confrontations. Their narratives, based on cultural models of Carnivals and brigas, highlight the vulnerability of the self to humiliation by others and the vulnerability of moral controls to one's own hostile emotions. The book argues that this double sense of social and psychological vulnerability is a product of Brazilian interpersonal relations, which are profoundly marked by the arbitrary exercise of power and the stifling of resentment in subordinates. Culture here consists not of shared symbols but of shared quandaries. The author suggests that Brazilian street fighting is an alarm bell - an inarticulate representation of pressing but poorly understood social and psychological dilemmas. Violence in Sao Luis may therefore be a desperate attempt to understand and come to grips with the very resentment, rooted in the city's harsh social transactions, that engenders it.".
• catalog contributor b3797629.
• catalog created "c1992.".
• catalog date "1992".
• catalog date "c1992.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1992.".
• catalog description "I. Introduction. 1. Fateful Encounters. 2. The City -- II. Carnival. 3. The Violence in Carnival. 4. Anything Goes! 5. Playing to the Limit -- III. Briga. 6. Preliminaries. 7. Exacerbations. 8. Disequilibrium. 9. Exits. 10. The Murder of Sergio -- IV. Conclusion. 11. The Cultural Cybernetics of Violence. 12. Brazilians and Their Discontents -- App. A: Biographical Sketches -- App. B: A Note on Methods.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-280) and index.".
• catalog description "This book is about violence in the Brazilian city of Sao Luis. It describes how people think about and negotiate dangerous encounters - vital and disturbing experiences that, when they go wrong, yield moral failure, humiliation, and death. Brazilians, like people elsewhere, worry about the perils of coming face-to-face with the wrong person, at the wrong time, under the wrong circumstances. The book discusses two conceptually linked forms of perilous face-to-face encounters: Carnival, a bacchanalian festival, and briga, a potentially lethal street confrontation. When playing becomes fighting, Carnival's samba, fueled by the controlled venting of dangerous passions, gives way to the explosive pas de deux of the street fight. Sao-luisenses tell vivid, sometimes terrifying, stories of verbal and physical confrontations. Their narratives, based on cultural models of Carnivals and brigas, highlight the vulnerability of the self to humiliation by others and the vulnerability of moral controls to one's own hostile emotions. The book argues that this double sense of social and psychological vulnerability is a product of Brazilian interpersonal relations, which are profoundly marked by the arbitrary exercise of power and the stifling of resentment in subordinates. Culture here consists not of shared symbols but of shared quandaries. The author suggests that Brazilian street fighting is an alarm bell - an inarticulate representation of pressing but poorly understood social and psychological dilemmas. Violence in Sao Luis may therefore be a desperate attempt to understand and come to grips with the very resentment, rooted in the city's harsh social transactions, that engenders it.".
• catalog extent "x, 289 p. :".
• catalog identifier "0804719268 (acid-free paper)".
• catalog issued "1992".
• catalog issued "c1992.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,".
• catalog spatial "Brazil São Luís do Maranhão.".
• catalog subject "303.6/0981/21 20".
• catalog subject "Carnival Brazil São Luís do Maranhão.".
• catalog subject "HN290.S32 L56 1992".
• catalog subject "Urban violence Brazil São Luís do Maranhão.".
• catalog subject "Violence Brazil São Luís do Maranhão.".
• catalog tableOfContents "I. Introduction. 1. Fateful Encounters. 2. The City -- II. Carnival. 3. The Violence in Carnival. 4. Anything Goes! 5. Playing to the Limit -- III. Briga. 6. Preliminaries. 7. Exacerbations. 8. Disequilibrium. 9. Exits. 10. The Murder of Sergio -- IV. Conclusion. 11. The Cultural Cybernetics of Violence. 12. Brazilians and Their Discontents -- App. A: Biographical Sketches -- App. B: A Note on Methods.".
• catalog title "Dangerous encounters : meanings of violence in a Brazilian city / Daniel Touro Linger.".
• catalog type "text".