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São João in Campina Grande

Mar 17, 2014 | Fiestas, Masks and Music

Campina Grande, deep into the state of Paraíba in Northeast Brazil, is not a common tourist destination. Except, that is, for the month of June, when fans…

Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro

Mar 17, 2014 | Book Reviews, Book Talk, Fiestas, Fiestas

In her book Hegel, Haiti and Universal History, Susan Buck-Morss cautioned against the growing trend in the academy towards specialization. Specialization…

Pleasure is Power

Mar 17, 2014 | Fiestas, Resistance, Community and Politics

I was a little late to the parade called La Invasión (the invasion)—the largest street parade in the conga tradition of Santiago, Cuba. Then I heard this simple…

La Conga

Mar 16, 2014 | Fiestas, Masks and Music

I was trying desperately to sleep, but it was too cold. It was July in Cuba, but the air conditioning on the cross-country Viazul bus had two settings—“freezing” and…

Carnival Inc.

Mar 11, 2014 | Fiestas, Nation, Nature and Patrimony

In the rainy season, streams of water take over Barranquilla. Streets transform into abundant, improvised rivers. They stop traffic, spilling over onto the…

Theme: Dance

São João in Campina Grande

Porous City: A Cultural History of Rio de Janeiro

Pleasure is Power

La Conga

Carnival Inc.