The Ritual of Transfer of Command Among Young Guides at the Closing of Pesebre Celebrations and Adorations
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The pesebres, or Jujuy Nativity-scene rituals, constitute one of the most valuable expressions of Jujuy’s symbolic heritage. During the period that includes the preparations for their assembly, at the beginning of December, and their closing, approximately in mid-January, the pesebre becomes a setting of multiple meanings in which the constant presence of the sacred is translated, from a personal perspective, into an honorary selection of its representatives.
In this paper, we seek to categorize, from the theory of rituality, the behavioral and functional expressions of the main actors involved in the transmission of mandates by the young guides or leaders of pesebres during a closing rite. To this end, we employ the institutional categories of rituality, in which roles and statuses legitimize a space of interaction conventionalized by ancestral patterns.
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