«And we must be more united!»: Carnival and Policy in a rural region of the Quebrada de Humahuaca, or how to maintain the traditions that are lost in the town
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https://doi.org/10.31048/1852.4826.v1.n0.5395Keywords:
carnival, politics, performance, traditions- JujuyAbstract
Since some years ago, the academic reflections that from the Anthropology have been developed about diverse events of the social life, emphasize the performatic dimension of certain dramatic genres, as the cases of rituals and parties. In the frame of the ethnographic field works carried out during the summer of 2008, we had the opportunity to take part in the different events that shape the carnival that every year is feasted in the gorge of Pipintu Grande, Jujuy. Immersed in the festive climate of the carnival, trying to take the pulse of the rituals of the ‘entierro’ and the ‘desentierro’, so prolific of couplets of unusual ingenuity as in ‘ch’allas’ and ‘machas’, we began to think about the manners of articulation between the performatic genres, the identities and the processes of resistance, that are modulated around a tension between the perception of an agonistic development that threatens the interfamiliar union, threat represented in the politics, and the putting in act of ‘traditional’ symbolic elements, where the fear to the loss of the traditions and customs articulates the speeches that are unfold during the carnival.Downloads
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