Performing portugueseness in Germany

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2632287
AutoresAndrea Klimt (University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, autor de correspondencia)
Año2005
Volumen9 (1)
Número9 (1
Páginas103-122
Fecha de publicación2005-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEtnografica (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0873-6561 • E-ISSN: 2182-2891
EditorialOpenEdition (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.4000/etnografica.2951
OpenAlexW2461088080
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas12

This paper explores representations of “Portugueseness” in the diasporic community of Hamburg, Germany, and unpacks the politics around a major festival featuring Portuguese folk culture held annually in the city’s Ethnographic Museum. A central question is how arguments about this form of national self-representation have, over the past four decades, played out within the migrant community, the wider field of German society, and the still wider transnational nexus of Portugal and the Portuguese diaspora. While these folkloric representations of Portuguese culture have heightened the visibility and pride of the Portuguese migrant community, they have also, simultaneously, helped to conceal conflict, contemporary agency, and persistent forms of inequality. Highly visible folkloric performances in a prestigious German space were not, in this case, accompanied by increased access to political power

Diaspora · Ethnography · Ethnology · Folklore · German · Political science · Politics · Portuguese · Pride · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · European Law and Migration · Gender Studies · History · Law · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy