tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561829398685858313.post6671852643707393045..comments2023-05-08T04:06:30.276-07:00Comments on Notes of an Itinerant Mendicant: No Carnaval in Paradise: The impossibilities of Carnaval in a post-Christian worldJason Keith Fernandeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13747657801280747019noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561829398685858313.post-70775522430731492812010-02-24T17:59:37.634-08:002010-02-24T17:59:37.634-08:00Well, the reversal of the norm in a big feast come...Well, the reversal of the norm in a big feast comes already from Greeks and Romans. But the true modern Carnaval is Brazilian, in my opinion...Alcipehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15543335859350304917noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561829398685858313.post-32783515297893114402010-02-24T04:36:01.645-08:002010-02-24T04:36:01.645-08:00Luis!
It is possible! I was contemplating this po...Luis!<br /><br />It is possible! I was contemplating this possibility after writing this. That the whole conceptualisation of Carnaval as a reversal of the norm is a peculiarly Brazilian idea. <br /><br />However, if you look at the practices of Carnaval in other spaces, the North Indian Holi for example, there is exactly such a reversal of the norm. Such reversals are seen elsewhere too. I would thus, like to hold on to this basic idea, while leaving open the possibility of thinking of Carnaval outside of the Brazilian experience. In this sense, perhaps the rest is silence! (but how poetically put! but this is to be expected of you no?)<br /><br />Abracos!Jason Keith Fernandeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13747657801280747019noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5561829398685858313.post-26655103331626119732010-02-24T04:21:15.323-08:002010-02-24T04:21:15.323-08:00Carnaval is in Brazil : the rest is silence...Carnaval is in Brazil : the rest is silence...Alcipehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15543335859350304917noreply@blogger.com