Doctoral Dissertation Research: Symbolic Capital and the Construction of Race

博士论文研究：象征资本与种族建构

• 批准号: 0802059
• 负责人: Jane Zavisca
• 金额: $ 1.48万
• 依托单位: University of Arizona
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-08-15 至 2009-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0802059&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Symbolic; Capital

SES-0802059Jane ZaviscaDanielle HedegardUniversity of ArizonaThe research addresses the question of how do differently situated social groups symbolically construct race and capoeira to mark boundaries, claim meanings, and gain material and cultural advantage? Capoeira academies in Salvador are an ideal setting to observe the construction of race. These academies attract international tourists in search of an "authentic" experience, and authenticity for tourists relates to race as the tourist economy of Salvador markets encounters with ?authentic? Afro-Brazilian cultural traditions such as dance, food, and capoeira. Through the tourist economy, people with divergent backgrounds and conceptions of race meet in an intensely interactive setting ? capoeira academies. These interactions will be ethnographically observed through intensive participant observation, supplemented by in-depth interviews with practitioners, in three academies. These academies all attract international tourists, but each draws on a different local socioeconomic base ? a low-income group comprised of mostly dark-skinned individuals with little access to the tourist center, a middle-class group of both light and dark-skinned individuals with access to the tourist center, and a low-income group of mostly dark-skinned individuals located within the tourist center. Observing tourists in interaction with different socioeconomic groups provides an opportunity to observe constructions of race as symbolic capital. It also allows us to better understand the process through which groups convert a symbolic resource ? race ? into cultural and material resources for local capoeira practitioners. Broader Impact. The project contributes to ongoing sociological studies of social capital and how racial categories are created and forges new links between Brazilian and US researchers.

SES-0802059 Jane ZaviscaDanielle Hedegard亚利桑那大学该研究解决了这样一个问题，即不同的社会群体如何象征性地构建种族和卡波耶拉，以标记边界，要求意义，并获得物质和文化优势？ 萨尔瓦多的卡波耶拉学院是观察种族结构的理想场所。这些学院吸引国际游客在寻找一个“真实”的经验，和真实性的游客涉及到种族作为旅游经济的萨尔瓦多市场遇到？真实的？非洲裔巴西人的文化传统，如舞蹈、食物和卡波耶拉舞。通过旅游经济，不同背景和种族观念的人在一个激烈的互动环境中相遇？卡波耶拉舞学院。 这些互动将通过密集的参与者观察，辅以深入采访从业人员，在三个学院的人种学观察。这些学校都吸引了国际游客，但每个学校都有不同的社会经济基础？低收入群体包括几乎不能进入旅游中心的主要是深肤色的个体，中产阶级群体包括可以进入旅游中心的浅肤色和深肤色的个体，低收入群体包括位于旅游中心内的主要是深肤色的个体。观察游客与不同社会经济群体的互动提供了一个机会，观察种族作为象征性资本的结构。它还使我们能够更好地理解群体转换符号资源的过程。种族？为当地卡波耶拉舞从业者提供文化和物质资源。更广泛的影响。 该项目有助于正在进行的社会资本社会学研究，以及种族类别是如何产生的，并在巴西和美国研究人员之间建立了新的联系。