Resumen de �There is a Culture Here�: Spectacle and the Inculcation of Folklore in Highland Bolivia
Every year, the Catholic Church of San Lucas organizes a festival of regional folklore. This festival is unusual in one respect: not only the performances, but also many of the audience are Quechua speaking campesinos, whose music and dance for religious fiestas constitute the �culture� which the folkloric performances are said to display. A folklore festival in which performers and audiences are nearly interchangeable calls for a reconsideration of theories which treat folkloric performances as a display of difference.
By considering the relationship between the festival �texts� (music and dance) and their shifting �contexts� (fiesta vs. folklore festival), this article shows that the festivals do not simply represent local lifeways, but teach campesinos that they are the bearers of a �culture� whose value lies in being displayed. In this way, they are being prepared to take part in the new, pluri-ethnic pageant of Bolivian nationhood.
