El poder hegemónico y la apropiación cultural de las festividades de San Pedro y San Pablo en la parroquia Picoazá –Ecuador

Abstract

From the perspective of the| studies of culture and the hegemony of power, this research explores its inhabitants’ perspective, the widespread feeling, and the appropriation of the religious celebration of Saint Peter and Saint Paul in the Picoazá parish (Portoviejo–Ecuador). For this purpose, qualitative methodology is used, using the interview as an ethnographic tool. The results suggest a group attached to religion with significant connotations in the social and cultural organization of the environment, giving way to the reproduction of traditions inherited from generation to generation. At the same time, the same ones fetishize and essentialize the activity and make other aspects inherent to cultural practices invisible.