Carnival in Southern Galicia

Jan 31, 2020 | Papers, Publications

Carnival in Southern Galicia: A processual proposal between laughter and emblem

  • Paula Godinho
  • 2020
  • Revista Memória em Rede
  • Volume 12, Isse 22
  • 145-172
  • Language: Portuguese
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.15210/rmr.v12i22.18077
  • ISSN: 2177-4129

The purpose of this article is to interrogate the processes of a significant moment of the annual ceremonial cycle: the carnival in Vilariño de Conso, Galicia, named entroido. My argument is based on the need of looking at what results from the current ethnography, inserting it into a long cycle. It focuses on the transformations of the relationship with laughter at these ceremonies, and I propose five moments, which intersect general time and local time, rituality and conjunctures. It is part of a extensive fieldwork revisiting the entroidos, which starts from ethnographies produced by different ethnographers at different times, and which runs from the 1980s to the present, in a area that covers the northern interior of Portugal and Galicia.

Key-words:
Entroidos, Galicia, Espanha, winter festivals, emblematizing processes, heritage, commodification, the aporia of «popular culture»

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