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Visiting the Living Museum: Brazilian Roots Tourism Performance and the Emancipatory Possible.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Visiting the Living Museum: Brazilian Roots Tourism Performance and the Emancipatory Possible./
Author:	Villada, Diego.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2018,
Description:	304 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International80-01A(E).
Subject:	Recreation. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10984427
ISBN:	9780438364868

Visiting the Living Museum: Brazilian Roots Tourism Performance and the Emancipatory Possible.
Villada, Diego.

Visiting the Living Museum: Brazilian Roots Tourism Performance and the Emancipatory Possible. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2018 - 304 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 80-01(E), Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pittsburgh, 2018.

This dissertation focuses on the intersection of Latin American studies, tourism, and performance in the northeastern state of Bahia, Brazil. I examine the generative outcomes associated with Brazilian roots tourism performance. Brazil is a unique case in the study of roots tourism --travel undertaken in order to connect with identity based on origin or homeland--- because members of the African diaspora travel there to connect with their African identity, even if their ancestry is not Brazilian. The northeastern state of Bahia is considered to be a "Black Mecca" or "Black Rome," because it is promoted by tourism agencies as the most Afro-centric place in the hemisphere. Roots tourism to Brazil, especially by US-African-Americans, has been implicated in the perpetuation of essentializing notions of Black-ness / African-ness. My argument is that even though hemispheric hegemonic relationships cannot be undone through transnational travel alone, performance, with its slipperiness, provides enough wiggle room and cultural agency to possibly provide emancipatory experiences for some or all of the participants within the scenario of a tourism encounter. The emancipatory possible is my term for utopian possibilities as a result of engaging in roots tourism. This argument is explored through two case studies based on performance ethnography fieldwork in Bahia during the summer of 2016. The first case study features a group of US-African-American young women on a trip of empowerment and self-discovery to the city of Salvador. The second case study features the renown Festa da Boa Morte (Festival of Good Death), a public festival sponsored by the Sisterhood of Good Death --a Catholic lay organization of Afro-Brazilian women of advanced years--- in the town of Cachoeira. An exploration of the staged authenticity of tourism encounters and the implications of digital ethnography and storytelling are also examined in relation to the emancipatory possible. This project promotes the idea that the emancipatory possible exists on a spectrum and thus it can be increased through the deployment of strategies such as: making staged authenticity visible, engaging as deeply as possible in a porous event, and having that engagement be through body-kinesthetic means.

ISBN: 9780438364868Subjects--Topical Terms:

535376
Recreation.

Visiting the Living Museum: Brazilian Roots Tourism Performance and the Emancipatory Possible.
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