Abstract
Considered an ethnic neighborhood, boosted by the occupation of Italian immigrants in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Bela Vista (also known as Bexiga) is the scene of cultural manifestations that expresses the vitality in the use of public space, becoming a tradition of the city of São Paulo. The neighborhood as a place of hospitality, gathers a set of ten cultural events that were catalogued over the years 2015 and 2016. This article focuses on one of those cultural events, the Italian festivity of Nossa Senhora Achiropita (Our Lady Achiropita). A celebration that by 2018 had been taking place for 92 years. Its aspects and dynamics were analyzed in order to identify the practices of sociability and commensality - treated in this study as dimensions of hospitality - as well as the potential of the neighborhood for ethnic tourism. Characterized as an exploratory research, the methodology of oral history was conducted via interviews with active participants or residents of the neighborhood, and through on site observation and bibliographical and documentary surveys. Among the results, the festive vocation of the neighborhood stands out as it shelters ethnic groups as well as cultural, popular and spontaneous manifestations, which are the locus of hospitality and touristic practices.
Highlights
Caracterizada como uma pesquisa exploratória, utilizou-se da Author α: Doctorate in Latin American Integration (Universidade de São Paulo), Master in Hospitality (Anhembi Morumbi University), Professor Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis (UniRitter) and Centro UniversitárioDiverse are the attractions by which the Bexiga neighborhood in the city of São Paulo is considered a touristic destination
Years, Bexiga became known as Bela Vista, This study attempts to identify the practices of and even it underwent various transformations, it sociability and commensality in the festivities of Our maintained much of its architectonic heritage and Lady Achiropita, as to dimensions of hospitality, and as cultural diversity, through the presence of ethnic groups a tourist attraction, through the ethnic characteristics of and the festive traditions supported by the cultural the festivity and the neighborhood
That from the optic of hospitality (LASHLEY, 2004; the scope of this study does not dwell on the analysis of CAMARGO, 2004) and tourism (BOULLÓN, 1997; VERA, the migrants, especially those from the northeastern 1997) the relations of the stranger/unknown with the community enable participated in the constitution of the neighborhood by the practices of sociability in public spaces (SIMMEL, forming networks and nucleus within the community. 1983; FRÚGOLI JR., 1995, 2007)
Summary
Caracterizada como uma pesquisa exploratória, utilizou-se da Author α: Doctorate in Latin American Integration (Universidade de São Paulo), Master in Hospitality (Anhembi Morumbi University), Professor Centro Universitário Ritter dos Reis (UniRitter) and Centro Universitário. Its streets become a scenario of experienced events, conjunctures, institutions, lifestyle cultural and popular manifestations that provide vitality and other aspects of the contemporary history of the to the neighborhood by attracting residents, visitors and neighborhood, in this way “a close relation with tourists alike. Some of those cultural manifestations are: categories such as biography, oral tradition, memory the celebration, in one of the main streets of the [...]” (ALBERTI, 2013: 25) takes place. [...] the freedman faced the competition of the European immigrant, who did not fear degradation by confronting the black and absorbed, the best opportunities for free and independent work (even the most modest ones, such as shine shoes, sell newspapers or vegetables, transport fish or other utilities, explore the trinket trade, etc.)
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