Articles about "cultural change"

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Social performance and historical transformation in the anniversary celebrations of indigenous Chaco churches (Argentina)

  • César Ceriani Cernadas

The article presents an anthropological problematization of the celebrations of indigenous church anniversaries in the Argentinean Chaco. It analyzes the ways in which processes of cultural change converge and performances social reputation and ethno-religious belonging. The study observes these celebrations as native cultural institutions transformed in their historical path and dynamizing forms of sociability, collective effervescence, competition and management of spiritual and/or political power. The study underlines the contemporary vitality of the anniversaries in the key of performances political and aesthetic to reflect on its disruptive and instituting dimensions.