Políticas oficiales y patrimonialización en el carnaval porteño

Abstract

In this work we seek to do a critical analysis around the process of inheritance of carnival activities in the environment of Buenos Aires city. We will look at how the new legislation for the porteno carnival, passed and implemented recently, has contributed in modifying the relationships and in the internal configuration in this ambience of cultural production. This implies the emergence of new complementary situations, negotiation and conflict among the different agents involved in the celebrations of the porteno carnival. First of all, we are interested in describing and analyzing the implementation process of formal devices, whose main objective is to regulate the activities of carnival groups. We will later examine how these official regulations establish a frame and meaningful categorizations over the practices and representations of the carnival groups, as well as which difficulties are arise at the moment of its cultural management.