Identity and contexts of regional identification: institutional stages, interregional relations and images of regional gender in the Alto Douro of northern Portugal
Abstract
This article examines regional sociocultural identity as a practice of identification. It is conditioned by thespaces available for enactment: regional institutions (generally “frontstage” space) and less formalized social
relations based in work (“back-stage” space). In the region treated, this work is largely agricultural. Class and
gender relations across (not just within) regional boundaries furnish symbolic resources for dramatizing regionalidentity. Portugal is an important space of analysis because it is so often (falsely) considered bereft of cultural
differentiation at the regional level.
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