Myth and variants on the death and resurrection of the ox in Brazil
The folguedos do boi, or ox revelries, have challenged generations of scholars. In the literature, they have been mainly apprehended as the performance of an original short popular drama. The problem is that the supposed drama has rarely been directly observed. The first part of the text argues that...
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Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
2006-01-01
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Series: | Mana |
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Online Access: | http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-93132006000200002&lng=en&tlng=en |