"The "Barbarous Game

Entrudo and Its Critics in Rio de Janeiro, 1810s-1850s

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2822016
AutoresHendrik Kraay (0000-0002-6796-4942, autor correspondente)
Ano2015
Volume95
Fascículo3
Páginas427-458
Data de publicação2015-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoHispanic American Historical Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0018-2168 • E-ISSN: 1527-1900
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00182168-3088584
OpenAlexW2275585268
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas22

This article examines the pre-Lenten festivities labeled entrudo in early nineteenth-century Rio de Janeiro and traces the efforts to repress them, which enjoyed a measure of success by the mid-1850s. During this period, the predominant form of pre-Lenten revelry involved various forms of water play that transgressed the boundaries between the sexes but tended to respect other social hierarchies. After independence, authorities and members of a self-proclaimed "civilized" elite sought to repress what they condemned as a "barbarous" game. These efforts obtained some success in the 1840s and 1850s as masked balls and parading by elite carnival societies came to dominate middle- and upper-class forms of celebration, although entrudo persisted longer among the lower classes. Based on travelers' accounts and the extensive newspaper debates about entrudo and its repression, this article analyzes a major cultural change among the Brazilian capital's elite

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