The course\u00a0includes the study of samba, capoeira (the Brazilian martial art), religious institutions and history, Afro-Brazilian spiritual culture, music and dance.\u00a0 All of the\u00a0students have had training in dance or capoeira,\u00a0and will be given additional instruction during the trip.<\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n Simone\u00a0\u00a0Ferro leads the class,\u00a0assisted by Meredith Watts who is also the project photographer (and blogger).\u00a0 Together they have led classes and conducted research in Brazil for nearly a decade.\u00a0 They have presented a number public presentations and academic papers on the Northeast Brazilian dance\/festival known as the Bumba-meu-boi<\/em>, and are in the last stages of developing a book on the struggle between heritage culture (\u201ctradition\u201d) and modernization (innovation and change) in organization, performance, funding, politics, religion, race, generational change, and gender transformations in the Bumba-meu-boi<\/em>.\u00a0 The festival, like capoeira, samba and\u00a0\u00a0religious practice in the Northeast, show the strong interaction of indigenous, European and African cultural elements in the making of Brazil\u2019s culture.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The class left for Salvador (Bahia)<\/strong> in early\u00a0June, moved on to Sao Luis<\/strong> (Maranhao<\/strong>), and concluded with a brief stopover in\u00a0Rio\u00a0 de Janeiro<\/strong> on the way back to\u00a0theUnited States.\u00a0\u00a0This timing allowed students to observe the\u00a0\u201cSaint\u2019s Days\u201d of celebration in Sao Luis, where the events are marked by the days\u00a0in the religious calendar honoring\u00a0Saint John (Sao Joao),<\/em> Saint Peter (Sao Pedro<\/em>),\u00a0and Saint Martial (Sao Marcal<\/em>).\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n<\/body>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 The first phase of our research is a study-abroad course taught through the\u00a0Department of Dance, Peck School of the Arts, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.\u00a0 A similar class has been offered twice before, and we have been accompanied in other\u00a0years by undergraduate research students who were supported by the university to\u00a0carry out\u00a0original research on Northeast … Continue reading Itinerary for the Study Abroad Trip 8-28 June 2015<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uwmmilwaukee-study-abroad-pre-2019"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":784,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Capoeira](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.meredithwwatts.com\/MWBrazilBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_1136_DxO.jpg\")
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