The Daughters of Gandhi: Africanness, Indianness, and Brazilianness in the Bahian Carnival

Browning, Barbara

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“…In doing so, he deprives contemporary urban carnivals of their reclaiming and temporary reversing capacities, which characterised their medieval and early modern counterparts. In contrast, research set in South America and Europe (e.g., Notting Hill, Salvador, Trinidad, Cadiz) highlights the dynamics of contemporary carnivals to reshape identities and question, through their liminal features, the values of everyday routine (see indicatively, Agiers 2000;Browning 1995;De Freitas 1999;DeWaal 2013;Dunn 1992;Ho 2000;Manjavacas Ruíz and Tom 2016;Riggio 1998;Salzbrunn 2014). Although carnival nowadays may not retain its tribal character, it is still a major public 'rite of passage'; the most glorious feast that transforms, even for few hours, the lives of city dwellers.…”

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Escaping Gentrification?

Zervou¹,

Dragouni²

2022

Anthropological Journal of European Cultures

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Contemporary carnivals represent rather banal spectacles, harnessed by institutional control and stripped of their meaning as disruptive processes of revelry, expressivity and defiance. However, when organised at grassroots level, carnivals may retain their subversive character, revealing intentions to cross the limits of urban normality. By drawing on ethnographic data, this article explores the carnival of Metaxourgio in Athens, performed in a multicultural neighbourhood at the heart of the metropolis by a small group of young artists and creatives. Based on the notions of liminality and threshold, it analyses how the carnival creates a temporal universe that challenges mainstream perceptions of public space and Otherness, contests gentrification and seeks to maintain a sense of community in a world of ever-shifting boundaries of precarity.

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