Fiestas en el ámbito arrantzale. Expresiones de sociabilidad e identidades colectivas.

Homobono Martínez, José Ignacio

Publication year:

1997

Publication place:

Donostia-San Sebastián

ISSN:

1137-439X

Download pdf

Summary

Different festive rituals frame the annual cicle of fishing activities and, specifically, the start of the winter coastal fishing season, these rituals finding their expression in collective meals. These meals express and reassure the fishermen´s groupings or associations, such as fishermen´s guilds, crews, family, party, gang, club (called sociedad or txoko), as well as the local identity of each fishing local community. Street holidays provide, on their turn, an opportunity to show solidarities articulated around neighbourhood and (female) gender.