Politics and Ritual in Post-Franco Spain

该项目支持文化人类学家对西班牙南部狂欢节的社会象征功能进行研究。这个反建制、反神职人员、大斋节前的节日传统上被分析为对国家的“反叛仪式”。该项目将把目前的狂欢节与1977年PI对这个地方的狂欢节的研究进行比较。通过将这些变化作为“前测-后测”的设计进行研究，该项目将试图看到佛朗哥政权的政治压迫如何在当前的狂欢节中得到改善。该项目假设，早期狂欢节的反建制主题将会衰落。方法包括参与观察、歌曲文本分析和对当地诗人和政治官员的深入访谈。这项研究之所以重要，是因为欧洲政治制度朝着放松镇压的方向发生了戏剧性的变化，这对必须理解的人们的象征性表达产生了影响。这一人种志项目将提供西班牙一个案例的深入信息，这将有助于解释东欧的类似案例。

This project supports a cultural anthropologist study of the social symbolic function of the carnival in southern Spain. This anti-establishment, anti-clerical, pre-Lenten festival was traditionally analyzed as a "ritual of rebellion" against the state. The project will compare the current carnival with the PI's 1977 study of a carnival in this place. By studying the changes as a "pre-test - post-test" design the project will attempt to see how the amelioration of the political repression of the Franco regime is manifested in the current carnival. The project hypothesizes that the anti-establishment theme of earlier carnivals will have declined. Methods include participant- observation, textual analysis of songs, and in-depth interviews with local poets and political officials. This research is important because the dramatic changes in European political regimes, in the direction of easing repression, have effects on people's symbolic expressions that must be understood. This ethnographic project will provide in- depth information on one case, in Spain, that will be useful in interpreting similar cases in Eastern Europe.