São Vicente Carnival: a touristic product between the cultural and the economic
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Culture, Tourism, Tradition, Carnival, Cape VerdeAbstract
The island of São Vicente has chosen carnival as one of its main tourist attractions and has been doing everything to promote it. This article pretends to explore the cultural and economic dimensions of São Vicente carnival, and to analyze these two different but interconnected features, by accounting for the evolution of the touristic promotion of carnival through the disputes and symbolic and financial investments that this festivity has generated. The reflection and the data I present here derive from ethnographic and archival research and seek to characterize the institutionalization process of the carnival as an emblematic touristic product of the island. I suggest that the touristic potential of the carnival feast has been thought over time precisely in the confluence and intersection of the culturalist and economistic discourses associated to carnival, thus revealing it simultaneously both as an economic and cultural resource, as it is understood by local actors.
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