Riti e cicli festivi nella comunità francoprovenzale di Giaglione in Valle Susa

In Giaglione, a Franco-Provençal-speaking Alpine municipality, the complex festive cycle becomes an important resource for renewing community ties with a certain frequency. The festival has a role of mediation, of regulation of roles (it connects inhabitants of different hamlets, men and women, different generations) and conveys embodied knowledge. The party is a complex system that is made up of many elements; each participant - active or passive - finds his function, takes part in the event and its preparation. This is what binds the nodes of the social network: they all guarantee that the festive machine works and that the community is therefore continually built, renewing tradition.