%0 Journal Article %T Quando se canta o conflito: contribui£¿£¿es para a an¨¢lise de desafios cantados %A Oliveira %A Allan de Paula %J Revista de Antropologia %D 2007 %I Scientific Electronic Library Online %R 10.1590/S0034-77012007000100008 %X this text makes an analisis about the cururu, a kind of singing challenge typical from countryside of state of s£¿o paulo, brazil. making a transcription of these challenges, it tries to point for questions about cururu's structure and performance, seen like a struggle between two singers that fight using singing words. at the same time, it sees like the cururu is a local updating of a social fact: the exchange. for this, it is possible to think about its characteristics in relationship with other kinds of singing challenges and making points about these social facts. %K cururu %K singing challenges %K reciprocity. %U http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0034-77012007000100008&lng=en&nrm=iso&tlng=en