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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Main Authors: Maria Laura Viveiros de Castro Cavalcanti, David Allan Rodgers
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro 2006-01-01
Series:Mana
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Online Access:http://socialsciences.scielo.org/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-93132006000200002&lng=en&tlng=en