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PUJOL CRUELLS, Adrià. Ciudad, fiesta y poder en el mundo contemporáneo. LiminaR [online]. 2006, vol.4, n.2, pp.36-49. ISSN 2007-8900.  https://doi.org/10.29043/liminar.v4i2.209.

It was said some time that the popular festival expressions would die in the environment of the industrialised societies. It was said that, once the rural comunity broken, festivities and rituals would crumble, lost their sense and power of cohesion. Far from that scenario, the celebration is still a ritualistic mechanism that societes, whatever circumstance they have, use periodically with a therapeutical purpose. The festivity sews, builds social clotting agents, and it does so in places where it looked like modernity would finish with archaic forms of sociability. The party is a symbolic battlefield, whenever social groups, sometimes antagonistic, ask for celebration on the street and the square.

Palavras-chave : celebration; ritual; power; society.