Performances culturais: expressões de identidade nas festas da fronteira entre Brasil, Argentina e Uruguai.

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". [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]