From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going : A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil /

"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) oste...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Barickman, B. J. (Bert Jude), 1958- (Auteur)
Autres auteurs: McCann, Bryan, 1968- (Éditeur intellectuel), Kraay, Hendrik, 1964- (Éditeur intellectuel)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2022.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Manners and customs.
Beachgoers.
Bathing beaches.
Amateurs de plage > Bresil > Rio de Janeiro > Histoire.
Plages > Bresil > Rio de Janeiro > Histoire.
Beachgoers > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > History.
Bathing beaches > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro > History.
Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) > Social life and customs > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • "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.

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