Flowers for ‘Mama Mary’: Cultural Hegemony and Change in Argao’s Traditional Flores de Mayo
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Anthropologists acknowledge the importance of memory,performance and oral transmission as manifested invarious forms of intangible cultural heritage which arepassed on from one generation to the next, thus providinga sense of cultural identity and continuity. This paperfocuses on the Flores de Mayo in Argao, a southern townin the province of Cebu in the Philippines. This is amonth-long religious ritual among Catholic Filipinospaying tribute to the Blessed Virgin Mary through theoffering of songs and flowers. Specifically it discusses:1. the performances involved in the ritual2. the meaning of the rituals to the participants3. the changes that have taken place in terms ofperformance and meaning4. how Argaoanons perceive such changes in relation totheir cultural heritageUsing Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony, the authorargues that the loss of this intangible heritage was largelydue to the former parish priest’s interventions which wentunopposed by the locals because of their reverence forreligious authority.
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Anthropologists acknowledge the importance of memory,performance and oral transmission as manifested invarious forms of intangible cultural heritage which arepassed on from one generation to the next, thus providinga sense of cultural identity and continuity. This paperfocuses on the Flores de Mayo in Argao, a southern townin the province of Cebu in the Philippines. This is amonth-long religious ritual among Catholic Filipinospaying tribute to the Blessed Virgin Mary through theoffering of songs and flowers. Specifically it discusses:1. the performances involved in the ritual2. the meaning of the rituals to the participants3. the changes that have taken place in terms ofperformance and meaning4. how Argaoanons perceive such changes in relation totheir cultural heritageUsing Gramsci’s concept of cultural hegemony, the authorargues that the loss of this intangible heritage was largelydue to the former parish priest’s interventions which wentunopposed by the locals because of their reverence forreligious authority.
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