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- Title
THE PRESENCE OF THE PAST IN THE CAJUN COUNTRY MARDI GRAS.
- Authors
Lindahl, Carl
- Abstract
The article informs that until recently, nearly all folkloric accounts of Mardi Gras and related festivals sprang from two opposed approaches. enacted. In exclusively synchronic fashion, they have plotted carnival's outer shape, internal structures, and place in a larger social world. All that a folklorist could see on a Mardi Gras day was all that mattered. The subsistence farm has largely disappeared, replaced by giant (often corporate) fields of specialty crops such as rice and crawfish. Boys whose fathers worked their own farms now live in town and travel to these fields to work long hours for little pay on other people's land.
- Subjects
FESTIVALS; MANNERS &; customs; CARNIVAL; FOLKLORE; FASHION; CAJUNS
- Publication
Journal of Folklore Research, 1996, Vol 33, Issue 2, p125
- ISSN
0737-7037
- Publication type
Article