The Unknown Carnival of Terceira Island (Azores, Portugal) : Community, Heritage, and Identity on Stage

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Autor(a) principal: Marcelli, Andrea Mattia
Data de Publicação: 2022
Outros Autores: Sousa, Francisco, Fonseca, Josélia, Silva, Leonor Sampaio da, Melotti, Marxiano, Costa, Susana Goulart
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.3/6487
Resumo: Terceira Island hosts a Carnival that enjoys unique features in the landscape of European folklore. It involves a major share of the resident population, it takes place on stages scattered all over the island, and it involves a blend of dancing, music, and acting. This paper presents the preliminary results of a collaborative project between native and foreign scholars, with the activist goal of providing Terceira’s Carnival with visibility in order to ensure its preservation. Documentary evidence and fieldwork activities undertaken in 2020 provide grounds to interpret Terceira’s Carnival as a multi-modal endeavour that nurtures social cohesion through mythopoesis, subversion of hegemonic roles, and the distribution of leadership to folk elites. As such, we argue that Terceira’s Carnival does not fit traditional scholarly views on European Carnivals. Additionally, we show that, thanks to its ability to trigger identity-making processes, this Carnival is a case for cultural sustainability: in fact, it ensures the preservation of communal bonds in face of changing global and regional social landscapes.
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dc.title.none.fl_str_mv The Unknown Carnival of Terceira Island (Azores, Portugal) : Community, Heritage, and Identity on Stage
title The Unknown Carnival of Terceira Island (Azores, Portugal) : Community, Heritage, and Identity on Stage
spellingShingle The Unknown Carnival of Terceira Island (Azores, Portugal) : Community, Heritage, and Identity on Stage
Marcelli, Andrea Mattia
Carnaval
História dos Açores (séculos XVII-XXI)
Identidade
Portugal
Carnival
Cultural Heritage
Identity
Terceira Island (Azores)
Azores
title_short The Unknown Carnival of Terceira Island (Azores, Portugal) : Community, Heritage, and Identity on Stage
title_full The Unknown Carnival of Terceira Island (Azores, Portugal) : Community, Heritage, and Identity on Stage
title_fullStr The Unknown Carnival of Terceira Island (Azores, Portugal) : Community, Heritage, and Identity on Stage
title_full_unstemmed The Unknown Carnival of Terceira Island (Azores, Portugal) : Community, Heritage, and Identity on Stage
title_sort The Unknown Carnival of Terceira Island (Azores, Portugal) : Community, Heritage, and Identity on Stage
author Marcelli, Andrea Mattia
author_facet Marcelli, Andrea Mattia
Sousa, Francisco
Fonseca, Josélia
Silva, Leonor Sampaio da
Melotti, Marxiano
Costa, Susana Goulart
author_role author
author2 Sousa, Francisco
Fonseca, Josélia
Silva, Leonor Sampaio da
Melotti, Marxiano
Costa, Susana Goulart
author2_role author
author
author
author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Repositório da Universidade dos Açores
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Marcelli, Andrea Mattia
Sousa, Francisco
Fonseca, Josélia
Silva, Leonor Sampaio da
Melotti, Marxiano
Costa, Susana Goulart
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Carnaval
História dos Açores (séculos XVII-XXI)
Identidade
Portugal
Carnival
Cultural Heritage
Identity
Terceira Island (Azores)
Azores
topic Carnaval
História dos Açores (séculos XVII-XXI)
Identidade
Portugal
Carnival
Cultural Heritage
Identity
Terceira Island (Azores)
Azores
description Terceira Island hosts a Carnival that enjoys unique features in the landscape of European folklore. It involves a major share of the resident population, it takes place on stages scattered all over the island, and it involves a blend of dancing, music, and acting. This paper presents the preliminary results of a collaborative project between native and foreign scholars, with the activist goal of providing Terceira’s Carnival with visibility in order to ensure its preservation. Documentary evidence and fieldwork activities undertaken in 2020 provide grounds to interpret Terceira’s Carnival as a multi-modal endeavour that nurtures social cohesion through mythopoesis, subversion of hegemonic roles, and the distribution of leadership to folk elites. As such, we argue that Terceira’s Carnival does not fit traditional scholarly views on European Carnivals. Additionally, we show that, thanks to its ability to trigger identity-making processes, this Carnival is a case for cultural sustainability: in fact, it ensures the preservation of communal bonds in face of changing global and regional social landscapes.
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