From sea-bathing to beach-going : a social history of the beach in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / B.J. Barickman ; edited by Hendrik Kraay and Bryan McCann.
"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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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2022.
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Table of 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.