Abstract

ALMEIDA, Sónia Vespeira de. "The journey to the villages": Rurality in the transition to democracy in Portugal. Etnográfica [online]. 2007, vol.11, n.1, pp.115-139. ISSN 0873-6561.

This article examines the representations of rural Portugal in the light of Portuguese democratic transition, taking as an empirical field the Campanhas de Dinamização Cultural e Acção Cívica do Movimento das Forças Armadas (1974-1975). Trying to confront the "idea of Portugal" promoted by the Estado Novo the protagonists of this initiative construct a paradoxical discursive field, where concepts such as culture, tradition, underdevelopment, decentralization and citizenship are intertwined.

Keywords : peasants; folk culture; revolution; Movimento das Forças Armadas.

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