The fairs also had a side of conflict
The past of the game helps to understand its transformation.
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The inventory recalls confrontations in fairs and pilgrimages, in a rural context in which the stick served as support and defense. It distinguishes this past from the cultural practice of presentation. Knowing this change allows you to look at the Pau Game as a tradition that adapted to the communities and times.
The chart associates the transformation to the changes of rural society and to the transmission between generations. In the presentations, it highlights training, attention and decision-making capacity. The schools of Abadim and Bucos appear as places of learning in the inventory process. The same object thus gains another social framework: knowing history includes realizing why it is practiced and how it is learned.
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MatrixPCI — Cabeceiras de Basto Stick Game, INPCI_2023_016
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