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POPULAR CULTURES • Rev. Bras. Estud. Presença 13 (4) • 2023 • https://doi.org/10.1590/2237-2660129409vs02   copy

Brazil, Mirror of Cape Verde: the case of the São Vicente carnival1 1 This text is based on chapter VI of my doctoral dissertation in Anthropology (Daun e Lorena 2018) defended at the ICS - Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon (Portugal) and whose research was supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT) (SFRH/BD/77522/2011). The translation of this article was also funded by FCT under the scope of the strategic plan of CRIA - Centre for Research in Anthropology (UID/04038/2020).

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ABSTRACT

The São Vicente carnival is a symbol of the island’s identity and, at the same time, a field that evokes and intersects several identity referents, with Brazil being the main one. This article revisits the long history of discourses and representations about the identitarian relation between Cape Verde and Brazil, through the case of the São Vicente carnival. Based on archival and ethnographic research, the article presents several Brazilian cultural influences that over time marked the island’s carnival and discusses this supposed relation, proposing the mirror metaphor to better illustrate this unilateral identification and identity demand.

Keywords:
Brazil; Cape Verde; Carnival; Ethnography; Identity

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