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 porteño 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 porteño 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.