出版社：Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
摘要：The comicalness of many of the popular and clerical festivals in the winter cycle has been mostly interpreted as a pagan and profane survival, objected to Christian faith. This paper discusses this simplistic thesis and adduces evidences that allows to understand the struggles between detractors and sympathizers of the polemic burlesque festivals on Christmas. We study the type of paschal joy that certain theology has justified in consideration of reasons such as the eutrapelia or the exemplary character of the humiliation and the humility in rituals based on investment of roles. Christmas laugh appears then as a fundamental ingredient of a mytho-logic in which turbulence, joviality, even obscenity, constitute liminal forms in collaborating with the eternal cycle of birth, death and resurrection.
关键词：Christmas;clerical festivals;laugh;eutrapelia;humiliation;satire;rites of passage;Navidad;fiestas clericales;risa;eutrapelia;humillación;sátira;ritos de paso.
