| Description |
1 online resource (xxviii, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Diálogos series |
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Diálogos (Albuquerque, N.M.)
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| Contents |
"A Carioca custom": sea-bathing in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Only on doctors' orders? Sea-bathing as medical treatment, sport, and recreation -- Dreaming of a Brazilian Biarritz: social geography and the beaches -- From Albert I to Prince George: the rise of beach-going -- Measuring maillots and chasing shirtless men: the police and the beaches -- Beach-going in the Zona Sul, 1950s -- 1980s |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2022) |
| Subject |
Bathing beaches -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History
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Beachgoers -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- History
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Bathing beaches
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Beachgoers
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Manners and customs
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| SUBJECT |
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) -- Social life and customs -- History
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| Subject |
Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Kraay, Hendrik, 1964- editor.
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McCann, Bryan, 1968- editor.
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| LC no. |
2021048483 |
| ISBN |
9780826363640 |
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0826363644 |
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