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Vindications and Customs: Women’s Participation in Local Festive Rituals in Spain

open access: yesFolklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, 2022
This article presents an overview of studies on women’s participation in festive rituals and cultural customs in Spain. Demands by women to participate in manifestations of what is today termed intangible cultural heritage began to emerge in the 1970s ...
Lidia Montesinos Llinare   +2 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Assessment of noise pollution of fireworks during Christmas and New Year in the city of Buenos Aires: comparison with a different management strategy applied to the city of Santiago de Chile

open access: yesDiscover Environment, 2023
Fireworks are widely celebrated worldwide but have raised environmental concerns due to pollutant emissions. This has prompted evolving legislation in many countries, necessitating scientific evidence for policy development.
Esteban N. Lombera   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

From the Grand Hotel to the Piazza Grande

open access: yesJournal of Festive Studies, 2023
The Locarno Film Festival is one of the oldest film festivals in the world. Founded in 1946, it is today widely recognized as an international hub for emerging cinema.
Cyril Cordoba
doaj   +1 more source

An Analysis of Cultural Elements in Selected Festive Advertisements

open access: yesJurnal Komunikasi: Malaysian Journal of Communication, 2021
Cultural knowledge and understanding are fundamental in a multiracial society like Malaysia. One of the ways to foster a good relationship between people of different cultural backgrounds can be achieved through the use of media. One of the means of such
I. Sualman   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Where You Are

open access: yesJournal of Festive Studies, 2023
This article uses the author’s auto/ethnographic experience while participating in a shuffle circle to interrogate the stakes at play when a shuffle circle and a community are created at an electronic dance music (EDM) event. Shuffle circles develop as a
Aydin Man Chun Quach, Timothy Nguyen
doaj   +1 more source

Traditional Festivals

open access: yesJournal of Festive Studies, 2019
This essay considers both the history of the growing academic field of festive studies and the history of my own involvement in this field. I first rely on some of the major works of accepted scholarship to show that social scientists and ethnologists ...
Laurent Sébastien Fournier
doaj   +1 more source

“Partying with a Purpose” at Malawi’s Lake of Stars Festival

open access: yesJournal of Festive Studies, 2023
Founded in 2003, the Lake of Stars Festival (LOS) has grown to become the largest annual beach party in Malawi, and one of the largest on the African continent.
Sitingawawo Kachipande
doaj   +1 more source

Cultural Studies, Festival Studies and Promising Research Areas of Festival Practices

open access: yes, 2023
The aim of the article is to analyse the potential of convergence between Festival Studies and Cultural Studies, to outline promising areas of research on festival practices at the pres­ent stage based on the correlation of the mentioned studios. Research results.
openaire   +3 more sources

Terrain festif contemporain : une mise en perspective de fêtes et festivals

open access: yesSocio-anthropologie, 2018
The festive dimension is a complex component of social life that is still difficult to define. Marked by the ephemeral imprint and anchored in the sociocultural universe where it is realized, each festive event is a subject of study by its own. Taking in
Céline Spinelli
doaj   +1 more source

Festive traditions and tourism in Mallorca: Ludic transgressions and the disruption of otherness

open access: yesTourist Studies, 2020
Invented traditions are worldmaking devices that mobilise places for tourism consumption. They are regularly used to project a tourist sense of otherness. However, they can also be sites of resistance and transgression in tourism.
Antoni Vives Riera, P. Obrador
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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