HARTMANN, Luciana. Cultural performances: forms of identity expression in festivities at the frontier between Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay. []. , 15, 2, pp.233-259. ISSN 0873-6561.

Festivities play a relevant role in building and bracing bonds between people living at the frontier region between Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, the area relating to the gaúcho or gaucho culture. In order to better understand the meaning of festivities in this society, I investigate how they express it - their own performance. This paper focuses on two kinds of festivities: the Gaúcho Day parade and the criollas. Both can be seen as cultural performances representing, through multiple idioms, the self-image of the local population. Based on a brief ethnography of these happenings, my intention is to analyze in which way these festivities express such “frontier identities”.

: feast; cultural performance; frontier; gaucho; identity.

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