Every year the people of Brazil remind themselves and the world how uniquely and culturally diverse they are by holding an annual festival throughout the country. This festival or in simpler terms, “party”, is known as Carnival. The word carnival comes from Latin, “Carne Vale”, or “Farewell to the Flesh”(http://www.afropop.org). Depending on where the Carnival is being held throughout the country, that is how it is named. For example, if the carnival were being held in R

The first “Baile de Carnival” took place in 1840(http://www.mystique-art.com). This is when masks, false beards, and mustaches were imported to Brazil to create imaginary costumes. At the beginning of 1852, drums and percussion were added to the festival. A group by the name of Ze Pereira under the leader ship of Jose Noguiera de Azevedo took the carnival to the streets. The dances that the African slaves once did in the streets of Brazil during the time of Entrudo brought about a Brazilian dance style known as Samba.

Even the naked body, then, cannot be thought of as naked: it is already clothed in and through meaning and power. In Rio Carnival, the increasingly uncostumed body is a privileged site in identifying differences, which are reproduced through

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