Mirar aquesta terra: Valores culturales e identidad

Abstract

Social anthropology has usually studied cultural identity analyizing the main symbols of differentiation between human groups, or how these groups symbolize membership. But this is not the only way Social Anthropology can address the subject. It can also study those traditional cultural meanings shared by people as cultural heritage. This article concerns the relationship between such heritage —made up of values and meanings integrated in a cultural syndrome— and the role played by a select type of protest song, inspired by the Renaissance and mystic poems of Ausiàs March, during the Political Transition to democracy in a bilingual region of Spain.