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activism
Afro-Brazilian culture
agency
ambiguities
anthropology
Author_Erica Lorraine Williams
Bahia
black women
Brazil
campaigns
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cultural tourism
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ethnography
gender
globalization
non-government organizations
police violence
prostitution
race
sex tourists
sex trade
sex workers
sexuality
tourism studies
transnationalism
Product details
- ISBN 9780252079443
- Weight: 367g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Nov 2013
- Publisher: University of Illinois Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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For nearly a decade, Brazil has surpassed Thailand as the world's premier sex tourism destination. As the first full-length ethnography of sex tourism in Brazil, this pioneering study treats sex tourism as a complex and multidimensional phenomenon that involves a range of activities and erotic connections, from sex work to romantic transnational relationships. Erica Lorraine Williams explores sex tourism in the Brazilian state of Bahia from the perspectives of foreign tourists, tourism industry workers, sex workers who engage in liaisons with foreigners, and Afro-Brazilian men and women who contend with foreigners' stereotypical assumptions about their licentiousness. She shows how the Bahian state strategically exploits the touristic desire for exotic culture by appropriating an eroticized blackness and commodifying the Afro-Brazilian culture in order to sell Bahia to foreign travelers.
Erica Lorraine Williams is an assistant professor of anthropology at Spelman College.
