{"id":1,"date":"2015-03-30T12:49:37","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T17:49:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=1"},"modified":"2019-07-29T21:23:42","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T02:23:42","slug":"hello-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=1","title":{"rendered":"Introduction to BrazilBlog: Meredith Watts Field Notes on Current Research"},"content":{"rendered":"<body><p><\/p>Meredith Watts and Simone Ferro have been conducting research on Northeast Brazilian <em>cultura popular <\/em>for nearly decade.\u00a0 This blog is a continuing record of field notes and reflections beginning with their 2015 visit to the <em>Bumba-meu-boi<\/em> festival in Sao Luis (Maranhao).\u00a0 For earlier research see our websites at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\">http:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com<\/a> (under \u201cBrazil Research\u201d) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.simoneferro.com\">http:\/\/www.simoneferro.com<\/a>.\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_113\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-113\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2756_DxO.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-113 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2756_DxO.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"UW-Milwaukee Dance Students at the Lencois Dunes, Maranhao\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2756_DxO.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2756_DxO.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2756_DxO.jpg?w=1320 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2756_DxO.jpg?w=1980 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-113\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">UWM Students at the Lencois Dunes, on the north coast of Maranhao<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are two research trips in 2015-2016.\u00a0 The first is a Study Abroad class of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee to<strong> Salvador (Bahia),\u00a0Sao Luis (Maranhao),<\/strong> and a brief stop in <strong>Rio de Janeiro<\/strong>.\u00a0 The second research trip\u00a0is a longer\u00a0visit to Sao Luis for most of the academic year 2015-2016 (roughly September to July) to do the last phase of research for a book on Northeast Brazilian festival culture.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-105\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2639_DxO.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-105 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2639_DxO.jpg?resize=300%2C200\" alt=\"IMG_2639_DxO\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2639_DxO.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2639_DxO.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2639_DxO.jpg?w=1320 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_2639_DxO.jpg?w=1980 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Simone Ferro filming the <em>Bumba-meu-boi Festiva<\/em>l, Sao Luis<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_151\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151\" style=\"width: 200px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3380_DxO.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-151 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3380_DxO.jpg?resize=200%2C300\" alt=\"IMG_3380_DxO\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3380_DxO.jpg?resize=200%2C300&amp;ssl=1 200w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3380_DxO.jpg?resize=683%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 683w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3380_DxO.jpg?w=1320 1320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_3380_DxO.jpg?w=1980 1980w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-151\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><em>Cazumba, Boi de Pindare<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith Watts and Simone Ferro have been conducting research on Northeast Brazilian cultura popular for nearly decade.\u00a0 This blog is a continuing record of field notes and reflections beginning with their 2015 visit to the Bumba-meu-boi festival in Sao Luis (Maranhao).\u00a0 For earlier research see our websites at http:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com (under \u201cBrazil Research\u201d) and http:\/\/www.simoneferro.com. \u00a0 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/?p=1\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Introduction to BrazilBlog: Meredith Watts Field Notes on Current Research<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-introduction-research-northeast-brazil","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":782,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}