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This article analyses the painted panels of the moliceiro boat, a traditional working
boat of the Ria de Aveiro region of Portugal. The article examines how the painted
panels have been invented and reinvented over time. The boat and its panels are
contextualized both within the changing socio-economic conditions of the Ria de
Aveiro region, and the changing socio-political conditions of Portugal throughout
the 20th century and until the present day. The article historically analyses the
social significance of ‘moliceiro culture’, examining in particular the power relations
it expresses and its ambiguous past and present relationships with the political and
the economic powers of the Portuguese state. The article unpacks some of the
complexity of the relations that have pertained between public and private, local
and national, folk culture and ‘art’, and popular and institutional in the Ria de Aveiro
region in particular, and Portugal more generally.
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Folk culture Political power Moliceiro Resistance Discourse Folklore Representation Power Portugal