Which makes Brazil, Brazil. Identity rituals in San Francisco
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This article discusses the question of brazilian identity in the city of San Francisco (USA). The analysis is based on two months of field-work, which included participation in community events, interviews and the gathering of materials from several media. The principal preoccupation of the author is the emergence of a new identity, and its manifestations in the reinvention of ritual such as the Brazilian carnival, traditional food and drinks, and dance, mixed with the other cultural manifestations from other communities, together with the new construction of feminine identity, and the exposure of the female body.The concept of "cultural intertextualidade" is used to understand the process of reaffirmation of identity, and the works of Benedict Anderson, amongothers, about "imagined communities" to analyze the elements that congregate the inmigrant community.
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