“Jesus Christ, I am here!” Notes for an anthropology of the tourism in the media

Abstract

The election of the statue of Christ Redeemer as one of the “new seven wonders of the modern world” became one of the “total moments” (Mauss), capable of making us privileged observers of the social life. Among the speeches released by the media in the occasion we observed the dramatized use of emotions. From an “ethnography of the media”, we intend to interpret senses constructed in journalistic material released by television in which tourists state emotions in its strolls to the statue.