Syncretic Texts and Temporality Networks

Abstract

Carnival is a syncretic text that is essentially paradoxical since within it, we can find simultaneously contradictory elements such as the grotesque and the elegant, the traditional and the modern along with a multiplicity of manifestations of temporality: the slow and the accelerated or the harmonic and contrasting coexistence of physical, individual, social and cosmological times. This analysis of carnival’s temporality networks is methodologically based on a dynamic vision of the relationship between objects, operations and symbolic constructs and also between complex realities in the making and selections of meaning on the part the observer.