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From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going - A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Hardcover)
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From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going - A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (Hardcover)
Series: Dialogos Series
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In From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B. J. Barickman explores how a
narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice
of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth
century came to symbolize a city and a nation. Nineteenth-century
Cariocas (residents of Rio) ostensibly practiced sea-bathing for
its therapeutic benefits, but the bathing platforms near the city
center and the rocky bay shore of Flamengo also provided places to
see and be seen. Sea-bathing gave way to beach-going and
sun-tanning in the new beachfront neighborhood of Copacabana in the
1920s. This study reveals the social and cultural implications of
this transformation and highlights the distinctive changes to urban
living that took place in the Brazilian capital. Deeply informed by
scholarship about race, class, and gender, as well as civilization
and modernity, space, the body, and the role of the state in
shaping urban development, this work provides a major contribution
to the social and cultural history of Rio de Janeiro and to the
history of leisure.
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