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B. J. Barickman

From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going

A Social History of the Beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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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… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Kraay, Hendrik (Hrsg.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-8263-6364-0
  • EAN: 9780826363640
  • Produktnummer: 37556013
  • Verlag: University of New Mexico Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2022
  • Seitenangabe: 296 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB

Über den Autor


B. J. Barickman (1958-2016) was an associate professor of Latin American history at the University of Arizona. While he began his research career as a scholar of Bahia's sugar-plantation economy, he later turned his interests to urban Rio de Janeiro's society and culture. His previous works include A Bahian Counterpoint: Sugar, Tobacco, Cassava, and Slavery in the Recôncavo, 1780-1860.

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