Donna Goldstein (LOOP) Introduction and Chapter One

1. Research Methods - Oral Culture, Economic and Political History, Main Informant Gloria, Hidden Identities, and Observations of Daily Life

2. More Theoretical Issues

2.1. Power: Sahlins Vs. Foucualt

2.2. hegemony and habit forming

2.3. Carnival and Class Formation: goldstein uncomfortable with the contradictions in celebration, upturning the social order (common among most societies), and humor in bad taste is the point

3. More Theoretical Issues

3.1. slave trade, sugar, and coffee

3.2. monarchy (Portugal), military leaders, democracy, conservatives, liberals, marxists and socialists

3.3. Sao Paulo industrial power

3.4. Rio de Jinero is civil servants and trade

3.5. lack of land reform has

4. Humor and Suffering

4.1. the source of humor is sorrow

4.2. formation of power among communities in brazilian slums based on class difference and history

4.3. embodied effect of power, illness, discomfort, hunger, violence, abandonment, imprisonment

5. Theoretical Issues

5.1. need for ethnographic detail

5.2. avoid presenting as 'culture of poverty'

5.3. humor as conservative or radical

5.4. resistance as a productive force

5.5. form of power that is both conservative and liberatory

5.6. reveals the fault lines in society