Denise Zenicola, NEPAA, Brazil
Email: denisezenicola@aol.com

This paper proposes to extend a look at performances of the quotidian in urban spaces, of the people who occupied the streets of Rio de Janeiro in the 19th century. There, "escravos de ganho" circulated with "tigres," washerwomen, and fisherman among others. It was primarily the slave population and a small number of free people, both men and women who in going about their daily business constructed, in diverse and spectacular form, the culture of the city of Rio de Janeiro.