The Show Must Go On

Abstract

Exploration of the migration history of the community of Cabanaconde, in Peru’s southern highlands, and the impact of transnational migration on the fiesta system calls attention to the role of the fiesta in strengthening migrants’ ties to the networks they draw on to migrate and adapt to their new settings in the United States. It also suggests that the transnationalization of the fiesta contributes to an emerging division of villagers into those who have access to migrant networks and those who do not. By serving as a public showcase for Cabaneños’ positions in migrant networks, the fiesta not only intensifies economic and social divisions within the community but also underpins the exclusiveness of those networks and reminds them and their fellow villagers of their new social status as both transnational villagers and global cosmopolitans.

Peruanos en el mundo : una etnografía global de la migración

“… Véase Escrivá (1997, MerinoHernando (2002Hernando ( , 2004, Tornos y otros (1997).17 VéaseÁvila (2003, 2005),Berg (2005),Bernasconi (1999),Julca (2001),León (2001),Núñez (2002Núñez ( , 2005,Pacecca (2000),Paerregaard (2005bPaerregaard ( , 2005cPaerregaard ( , 2007, RuizBaia (1999),Sabogal (2005),Stefoni (2002Stefoni ( , 2005,Takenaka (1999Takenaka ( , 2003Takenaka ( , 2004Takenaka ( , 2005,Torales (1993),Walker (1988).18 VéaseGelles (2005),Paerregaard (2002aPaerregaard ( , 2003Paerregaard ( , 2005aPaerregaard ( , 2005bPaerregaard ( , 2005cPaerregaard ( , 2010aPaerregaard ( , 2010c,Tamagno (2002aTamagno ( , 2002bTamagno ( , 2003aTamagno ( , 2003bTamagno ( , 2005.19 Esta emigración fue consecuencia del fallido golpe llevado a cabo por el APRA en 1931. 20 Altamirano (2000, p. 32) afirma que Paterson y otras ciudades de Nueva Jersey se convirtieron en destino de los trabajadores fabriles peruanos ya en la década de 1920, pero no presenta ninguna fuente que sustente esta afirmación.…”