With the support of the Culture Programmeof the European Union

Education, Audiovisual & CultureExecutive Agency (EACEA) - Bruxelles

Co-operation Measures (Strand 1.2.1)

contract n. 2007 - 1094/001-001 CTU COHANT

Carnival King of Europe

by Giovanni Kezich, Antonella Mott, Cesare Poppi, Michele Trentini

CLT2007/1.2.1/IT-350

Museo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente Trentina

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ItalyMuseo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente TrentinaSan Michele all’Adige

CroatiaEtnografski muzej

Zagreb

MacedoniaNacionalna Ustanova Muzej na MakedonijaSkopje

BulgariaEthnographic Institute and Museum,

Bulgarian Academy of ScienceSofia

FranceMusée des Civilisation de l’Europe et del MéditerranéeMarseille

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Our goals

• 1) providing new grounds as towardssome overall interpretative synthesisof European winter fertility rituals (i.e. “Carnivals”), in the context of the general frameworkof European culture history, through:

• museum research • fieldwork on location • cinematic documentation

• 2) establishing a working network betweensome major European ethnographic Museums,with particular reference to the Alpsand the Balkans, in order to exchange information and activities.

• 3) contributing to a growing awareness as tothe common cultural roots of all European peoples and/or nations, thus establishing some minor,yet not unimportant new landmark as tothe making of a European identity.

Roman Salii beating on a skin, before a statue of Mars

Mosaic, III c. AD.

Kukeri of Straldja (BG), 1921

Northumbria (UK), 1927 or 1928photo by František Pospíšil

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Activities: 1. Fieldwork

Macedonia, Begnishte14th January 2007, djolomar

Croatia, Rukavac20th January 2008, zvončari

Italy, Coredo3th February 2008, lachè

Italy, Soraga5th February 2008, bufón

Italy, Durnholz (Südtirol/Sudtirolo)4th December 2008, Klöckler

Bulgaria, Chelnik17th February 2008, kukeri

France, Espes (Pays Basques)25th January 2009, zamalzain

France, Arles sur Tech (Catalunia)1th February 2009, Fête de l’ours

Carnival King of Europe, film by Giovanni Kezich e Michele Trentini

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Activities: 2. Film documentation

Un giorno a ValflorianaFilm by Michele Trentini

Un giorno a Begnishte Film by Michele Trentini

Un giorno a RukavacFilm by Michele Trentini

Un giorno a ChelnikFilm by Michele Trentini

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Activities: 3. Itinerant exhibitionSan Michele all'Adige (I)Museo degli Usie Costumi dellaGente Trentina22th November 2008 - 6th January 2009

Zagreb (HR) Etnografski Muzej

15th January -25th February 2009

Carnival King of Europe. Winter Fertility Masks in the European Ethnographic Context

Sophia (BG)Ethnographic Instituteand Museum19th March -29th April 2009

Skopje (MK) Nacionalna

Ustanova Muzejna Makedonija

16th May -30th June 2009

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Activities: 3. Itinerant exhibition

Act I(of Fear)

Carnival King of Europe. Winter Fertility Masks in the European Ethnographic Context

Act II(the Ceremony)

Act III(of Laughterand Death)

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Activities: 4. Educational activities

«Le maschere di Mastro Remo» with Remo Barcatta of Valfloriana

«La danza degli arlecchini» with the Lachè of Romeno

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Activities: 5. Website carnivalkingofeurope.it

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Activities: 6. Catalogue

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Activities: 7. Closing conference, San Michele all’Adige 5th-7th November 2009Carnival King of Europe. Power, rituals and the Peoples without History.Papers in honour of Eric R. Wolf (1923 – 1999) in the 10th anniversary of his death.Programme

IntoductionCesare Poppi, Carnevale Re d’Europa: note di campo

Archaeology and HistoryGiovanni Kezich, Dal carnevale al carmen arvale: un percorso a ritrosoAntonio Mastrojanni, Arvali, lari, antenati, re-dei e re fittavoliValeria Fol, Masks and the masquerade ritualism in the Early-Christian written traditionQuirino Galli, Documenti altomedievali nei carnevali della Tuscia

Ethnography – the AlpsDavide Porporato, Archiviare il carnevale. Per un atlante delle feste invernali piemontesiValentina Porcellana, Carnevale e sua madre QuaresimaLia Zola, Due carnevali a nuova vita in valle SusaCristina Ianniello, Rollat e Pajaz nel carnevale di SappadaAdriana Gandolfi, Carnevale tradizionale nell’Appennino centro-meridionale

Ethnography – EuropeKepa Fernandez de Larrinoa, The Maskaradak of the SouleRoberta Gottardi, Corrispondenza tra cultura iberica e cultura italica nella carnevalogia di Julio Caro BarojaAida Rancane, Phallic Elements in Masked Processions in Latvia

Ethnography – OverseasMarie-Pascale Mallé, Traditional characters of Guyanese carnavals from European mascarades

From origins to contemporaneus globalismVincenzo Padiglione, Il diavolo contadinoStefano Fait, La maschera del potereElizabeth L. Krause, Challenges of making peasant the subject of historyJohn W. Cole, Carnival in Time and Place

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Beneficiaries

Various categories of people can be singled out as targets of the benefits of the project. These are in particular:

• local communities where the selected winter rituals are held, which will benefit from being placed in a European network of contacts and relations

• schoolchildren and students who, through the planned educational activities, will gain a new perception of the importance of traditional calendric festivals

• scholars of popular traditions and folklore, who will see again an old concern of theirs under the public eye, as well as under a proper ethno-anthropological frame of reference

Zagreb, Croatia, 15th January,Etnografski Muzej Exhibition opening: carnival groups of Valfloriana and Romeno (I)

San Michele all’Adige, Italy, 14th February7 carnevali e ½. 2a Festa del carnevale alpino

Carnival Parade: group of zvončari of Grobnik (HR)