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Este trabajo se pregunta por qué los habitantes y líderes de la ciudad de Bogotá (Colombia) perciben la ausencia de un festival desde hace más de 150 años. Argumenta que desde hace unos 40 años la ciudad tiene una fiesta popu- lar: el Halloween. A través de su seguimiento en la prensa, muestra la forma como se importó y se popularizó hasta constituirse en una celebración in- tergeneracional e interclasista a finales de los años 70. Analiza la manera en que distintos sectores sociales han intentado apropiarse de ella y defi- nir su sentido, pero cómo conserva su carácter polisémico y abierto. A partir de un trabajo de campo realizado desde 1997, intenta una interpretación del Halloween en Bogotá como ritual y carnaval del consumo capitalista y muestra los cambios de la fiesta en relación con las transformaciones socio- espaciales de la ciudad en estos últimos 30 años. Finalmente, se pregunta por el intento de apropiación de dicha fiesta por parte de la actual adminis- tración distrital en su esfuerzo por inventar una fiesta popular para la ciudad. Palabras clave: fiesta, carnaval, Halloween, antropología urbana, Bogotá (Colombia). Abstract This paper questions why the inhabitants and government of the city of Bogotá (Colombia) perceive that they have been lacking a festival for more than 150 years. It argues that for the past 40 years the city has been celebrating a really popular festival: Halloween. Using a survey study of print periodical media, this paper examines how Halloween was imported and popula- rized, becoming institutionalized as an intergenerational and interclass celebration by the end of the 1970s. It analyzes how different sectors of society have tried to appropriate the festival and define its meaning, and how Halloween has maintained its polysemic and open-ended charac- ter. The study furthermore examines fieldwork on Halloween celebrations in Bogotá undertaken since 1997, and interprets the festival as a capitalist consumer ritual and carnival, and shows how the celebration has changed in keeping with the socio-spatial transformations that have taken place in the city over the past 30 years. Finally, it analyzes the city administration’s attempt to appropriate this festival and turn it into a carnival for the city. Keywords: festival, carnival, Halloween, urban anthropology, Bogotá (Colombia).

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