Cultural Analysis 2001, 2: 69-105. The University of California.
An ethnography of the Parintins festival informing on the history of the ox merriment in Brazil. Analyzed from the perspective of ritual studies, the festival is seen as a contemporary cultural movement that, while enhancing regional indigenous roots, expresses a positive statement of a Brazilian caboclo, or mestizo, cultural identity.
Maria Laura Cavalcanti é Professora Titular de Antropologia na Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, docente e pesquisadora no Programa de Pós Graduação em Sociologia e Antropologia. 
