Baby Jesus' Standing, Theft and Search - a Traditional Venezuelan Christmas Feast

• Authors: Prieto Rodríguez Adlin de Jesús , Suinaga Marina Meza
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Baby Jesus’ standing, theft and search is a religious feast that is mainly celebrated within the Andean region of Venezuela, and as time has passed by, it has become part of the national cultural heritage. From our perspective of participant observers of the cultural object, this is an attempt to describe the celebration and to offer a possible hypothesis about the meanings related to the child’s search. Considering the generalized significance of this festivity, it would emphasize the fact that this tradition ratifies and evokes the recreation of several biblical episodes and the constant incorporation of Baby Jesus in the family as well as in the community which turns out to be an exaltation of religious, affective, cultural, and social values.

Keywords

EN

Christmas Festivities; Venezuelan religious tradition; Baby Jesus; devotion; identity

• Publisher: Księgarnia Akademicka
• Journal: Politeja : Pismo Wydziału Studiów Miedzynarodowych i Politycznych Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 2(24): Venezuelan Studies
• Pages: 255-266

Contributors

author

Prieto Rodríguez Adlin de Jesús

• Simón Bolívar University

author

Suinaga Marina Meza

• Simón Bolívar University

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Identifiers

DOI

10.12797/Politeja.10.2013.24.16