Abstract
The Ordinary Violence of a Brazilian City Alarming rumours about the traffic in organs or the theft of children and quasi-ontological anxiety and insecurity about the ownership of one's own body are maintained by the indifference of « the bureaucracy » towards the life and death of the shanty-town « marginals » - unemployed migrants from the country, young delinquents, street children and the poorest of the poor. The public rituals which bring the shanty-town people into contact with the State, at the hospital, the registrar's office, the mortuary and the town cernetery do indeed weave the context for a banalization of horror. Within this framework, apparently incomprehensible and unpredictable events - such as « disappearances » and torture - become a predictable and expected norm for ail those who have been made socially insignificant.
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