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Valenzuela Street Performers
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Valenzuela Street Performers

From Guitarists to Mimes: The Sidewalk Shows of Valenzuela’s Thoroughfares The Monumento Underpass “One-Man Band” Sensory Overload Navigating the crowded underpass at Monumento, you are assaulted not just by the smell, but by sound. A one-man band has set up shop: a guitar, a harmonica on a neck brace, a kick drum, and cymbals strapped …

Pateros Fiesta Invitation: The High-Stakes Art of Selective Inclusion and the Ritualized Anxiety of Attending or Successfully Avoiding the Mandatory Feast
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Pateros Fiesta Invitation: The High-Stakes Art of Selective Inclusion and the Ritualized Anxiety of Attending or Successfully Avoiding the Mandatory Feast

An Examination of the Social Event Where Hierarchy Is Determined by Seating Arrangement and the True Measure of Success Is the Amount of Lechon Skin Consumed The Social Geopolitics of the BanquetIn Pateros, a **Fiesta Invitation** is not a casual request; it is a high-stakes, meticulously choreographed social ritual, a temporary realignment of the entire …