Contested Spaces. Meaningful Places. Contemporary Performances of Place and Belonging in Spain and Brazil

This essay aims to contribute to current anthropological debate on space and place, analysing in two instances of festival performance how, on the one hand the politics of appropriation of space contributes to the configuration of power relations, and how on the other hand, participants in these fes...

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Main Author: Maria J. C. Krom
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Sciendo 2011-03-01
Series:Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
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Online Access:https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/11
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Contested Spaces. Meaningful Places. Contemporary Performances of Place and Belonging in Spain and Brazil
Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics
festivals
performance
space
place
appropriation
belonging
title Contested Spaces. Meaningful Places. Contemporary Performances of Place and Belonging in Spain and Brazil
title_full Contested Spaces. Meaningful Places. Contemporary Performances of Place and Belonging in Spain and Brazil
title_fullStr Contested Spaces. Meaningful Places. Contemporary Performances of Place and Belonging in Spain and Brazil
title_full_unstemmed Contested Spaces. Meaningful Places. Contemporary Performances of Place and Belonging in Spain and Brazil
title_short Contested Spaces. Meaningful Places. Contemporary Performances of Place and Belonging in Spain and Brazil
title_sort contested spaces meaningful places contemporary performances of place and belonging in spain and brazil
topic festivals
performance
space
place
appropriation
belonging
url https://www.jef.ee/index.php/journal/article/view/11
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