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Embodying Uncertainty in a Portuguese Borderland Village
- Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- UIDB/04038/2020 UIDP/04038/2020 Focusing on the ritual of the Commending of the Souls in Penha Garcia (Portugal), this article analyzes how its recasting as heritage is re-inventing a declining rurality and aiding an uncertain future. A renewed vernacular engagement with the ritual, along with the local use of heritage policy to render it intangible heritage is 1) generating a vernacularization of Portuguese Catholicism (analogous to “religious pluralization”), and 2) construing heritage-making as an efficacious technique of religious belief. This article argues that the collective engagement of local actors in the processes of vernacularization and transforming of this ritual into heritage is (re-)enchanting the virtuosity of their local religiosity, which embodies and suspends a structural uncertainty. publishersversion published
- Subjects :
- ritual revitalization
SDG 5 - Gender Equality
Uncertainty
Catholicism
rural societies
voice
Religious rites
Heritage
SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
Antropologia da morte
Vernacular Culture
Popular Culture
Transcultural Heritage
Ritual performance
death
Translocality
Intangible cultural heritage
Ethnomusicology
Antropologia
Performance studies and digital media
Translocalidade
SDG 15 - Life on Land
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Accession number :
- edsair.od......1437..ed3957c62062956777bf5ab77ca833f8