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Carnival King of Europe
CLT2007/1.2.1/IT-350
by Giovanni Kezich, Antonella Mott, Cesare Poppi,
Michele Trentini
With the support of the Culture Programme of the
European Union Education, Audiovisual
Culture Executive Agency (EACEA) -
Bruxelles Co-operation Measures (Strand
1.2.1) contract n. 2007 - 1094/001-001 CTU
COHANT
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CroatiaEtnografski muzejZagreb
MacedoniaNacionalna Ustanova Muzej na
MakedonijaSkopje
ItalyMuseo degli Usi e Costumi della Gente
TrentinaSan Michele allAdige
BulgariaEthnographic Institute and
Museum,Bulgarian Academy of ScienceSofia





FranceMusée des Civilisation de lEurope et del
MéditerranéeMarseille
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Our goals
1) providing new grounds as towards some
overall interpretative synthesis of European
winter fertility rituals (i.e. Carnivals), in
the context of the general framework of European
culture history, through museum research
fieldwork on location cinematic
documentation 2) establishing a working
network between some major European ethnographic
Museums, with particular reference to the
Alps and the Balkans, in order to exchange
information and activities. 3) contributing
to a growing awareness as to the common cultural
roots of all European peoples and/or nations,
thus establishing some minor, yet not unimportant
new landmark as to the making of a European
identity.
Roman Salii beating on a skin, before a statue of
MarsMosaic, III c. AD.
Kukeri of Straldja (BG), 1921
Northumbria (UK), 1927 or 1928photo by František
Pospíšil
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Activities 1. Fieldwork
Italy, Coredo3th February 2008, lachè
Italy, Soraga 5th February 2008, bufón
Croatia, Rukavac20th January 2008, zvoncari
Macedonia, Begnishte14th January 2007, djolomar
Italy, Durnholz (Südtirol/Sudtirolo)4th December
2008, Klöckler
Bulgaria, Chelnik 17th February 2008, kukeri
France, Espes (Pays Basques)25th January 2009,
zamalzain
France, Arles sur Tech (Catalunia)1th February
2009, Fête de lours
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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
Carnival King of Europe, film by Giovanni Kezich
e Michele Trentini
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Activities 3. Itinerant exhibition
San Michele all'Adige (I)Museo degli Usie
Costumi dellaGente Trentina22th November 2008 -
6th January 2009
Zagreb (HR) Etnografski Muzej15th 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
allAdige 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 Intoduction Cesare Poppi, Carnevale Re
dEuropa note di campo Archaeology and
History Giovanni Kezich, Dal carnevale al carmen
arvale un percorso a ritroso Antonio
Mastrojanni, Arvali, lari, antenati, re-dei e re
fittavoli Valeria Fol, Masks and the masquerade
ritualism in the Early-Christian written
tradition Quirino Galli, Documenti altomedievali
nei carnevali della Tuscia Ethnography the
Alps Davide Porporato, Archiviare il carnevale.
Per un atlante delle feste invernali
piemontesi Valentina Porcellana, Carnevale e sua
madre Quaresima Lia Zola, Due carnevali a nuova
vita in valle Susa Cristina Ianniello, Rollat e
Pajaz nel carnevale di Sappada Adriana Gandolfi,
Carnevale tradizionale nellAppennino
centro-meridionale Ethnography Europe Kepa
Fernandez de Larrinoa, The Maskaradak of the
Soule Roberta Gottardi, Corrispondenza tra
cultura iberica e cultura italica nella
carnevalogia di Julio Caro Baroja Aida Rancane,
Phallic Elements in Masked Processions in
Latvia Ethnography Overseas Marie-Pascale
Mallé, Traditional characters of Guyanese
carnavals from European mascarades From origins
to contemporaneus globalism Vincenzo Padiglione,
Il diavolo contadino Stefano Fait, La maschera
del potere Elizabeth L. Krause, Challenges of
making peasant the subject of history John 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 allAdige, Italy, 14th February7
carnevali e ½. 2a Festa del carnevale alpino
Carnival Parade group of zvoncari of Grobnik
(HR)