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MENDOZA ONTIVEROS, Martha Marivel. Performance y drama social: la representación de la Batalla del 5 de mayo en una localidad mexicana. Convergencia [online]. 2010, vol.17, n.54, pp.93-110. ISSN 2448-5799.

The present paper aims to examine an ethnographic description of a traditional festivity, namely the representation of the 5 de Mayo Battle, in a Mexican community. Such a festivity is an event of a civic nature and takes place every single year in the location of Texcoco, a municipality of the State of Mexico. By considering Victor Turner's proposal along with a French Structuralism approach, the festivity was analyzed as a performance genre of social drama; which permitted the understanding of the event's significance.

Palavras-chave : social drama; performance; ritual; representation; the 5° May Battle.