Olinda wants to sing: carnival expressions of a city without carnival

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2023.201955

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Anthropology and image, Carnival, Pandemics, Olinda-PE

Abstract

In Olinda (PE), during its most festive month, the revelers take to the streets with lots of glitter and bodies on display. There is not even an inch of distance between anyone and it is very common to observe, in some way, how the passionate quick kisses that are exchanged between strangers manage to further diminish the distance. The assembly of this paper has as a double objective to show the streets of the imagined route for the Carnival of Olinda in the year 2022; and, from the absence of bodies and fanfare, canceled for the second consecutive year by the city hall, reflect on the meanings of the party for the city. In other words, the present article exposes the records, through photographs, of the non-carnival, of the non-kiss, of the non-crowd, as well as the resistances and insistences on keeping the flame of the revelry alive, through photographs of the route evoked by the memory of past carnivals.

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Author Biography

  • Fernanda de Carvalho Azevedo Mello, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

    Fernanda de Carvalho Azevedo Mello is a PhD student in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), with a Master’s degree in anthropology from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE, 2020). She has an undergraduate degree in international relations from Faculdade Integrada do Recife (FIR, 2011) and social sciences from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE, 2021). Currently, she researches the carnival of Olinda, in Pernambuco, ethnographing eroticism and flirting among women. She is part of the study group Gênero, Corpo e Sexualidade (Gender, Body, and Sexuality, GSC) at UFRN. E-mail: nandacmello@hotmail.com.

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Published

2023-05-25

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Vol. 8 No. 1 (2023)

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Gesture, image and sounds

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Mello, Fernanda de Carvalho Azevedo. 2023. “Olinda Wants to Sing: Carnival Expressions of a City Without Carnival”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 8 (1): e201955. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2023.201955.