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Gaucho culture

Gaucho culture

Cultural traditions of the South American gauchos

The Gaucho culture, or Gaúcho culture, is the set of knowledge, arts, tools, food, traditions and customs that have served as a reference to the gaucho.

Gauchos by José María Pérez Núñez.
The asado (1888), by Ignacio Manzoni. Asado is considered a national dish,[1] and is typical of Argentine families to gather on Sundays around one.[2]

Geographically, in the 18th and 19th centuries it was extended by a region of South America that covers much of the territory of Argentina,[3] all of Uruguay, and the state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil,[4] where it is known as Gaucho culture.[5][6] In historical gauchos were reputed to be brave, if unruly, the word is also applied metaphorically to mean "Noble, brave and generous",[7] but also "One who is skillful in subtle tricks, crafty".[8]

The Gaucho culture has resulted in styles and forms of expression in music, literature and theater is very defined. Some of its main components are related to the importance of rural life of plain, horse, guitar, mate and beef, as well as the values of solidarity, loyalty, hospitality and courage.

Historical review

It appeared in the 16th century during the colonization of Spain and Portugal from those regions, acquired its own identity from the special type of livestock rural work that was developed there, because of the multiplication of bovines in the wild, a fact that allowed a wide degree of freedom for those trabajadores.

Characteristics

Characteristics of the rural gaucho culture are express in horse, beef, leather, guitar, loneliness, housing (e.g. the ranch), family, stay, work and facón etc.

See also

References

  1. [1]
    "El asado" [The asado]. Vía Restó.com (in Spanish). Buenos Aires: Grupo Clarín. 28 April 2010. Retrieved 29 December 2012. Nacido en el centro de las costumbres gauchas, el asado se impuso como el plato nacional por excelencia.
  2. [2]
    "Gastronomía" [Gastronomy] (in Spanish). Argentina.ar. Archived from the original on 17 February 2011. Retrieved 24 July 2013. Son muy comunes –casi mayoritarias- las reuniones en torno a la comida. [...] Las reuniones familiares en domingos generalmente son en torno a un asado o un buen plato de pastas.
  3. [3]
    "Gaucho Culture". gaucho-argentino.com. Gaucho Argentino. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  4. [4]
    "The Fate of Gauchos and Cattle Ranching in Southern Brazil". amakella.com. Retrieved 18 June 2017.
  5. [5]
    "South American history". Encyclopædia Britannica (Web) (15th ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. ISBN 1-59339-292-3. OCLC 71783328. Retrieved May 14, 2016. Gaucho, the nomadic and colourful horseman and cowhand of the Argentine and Uruguayan Pampas (grasslands), who flourished from the mid-18th to the mid-19th century and has remained a folk hero similar to the cowboy in western North America. The term also has been used to refer to cowhands and other people of Rio Grande do Sul state in Brazil.
  6. [6]
    "Gauchos of Argentina, Uruguay and Southern Brazil". gosouthamerica.about.com. January 29, 2016. Archived from the original on April 26, 2016. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
  7. [7]
    Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, Gaucho, sense 1.
  8. [8]
    Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, Gaucho, sense 4.
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