Program Number: 7

Contents: Report: A special report on one of the most prominent and complex aspects of Latin American life?the festival. [Interviews:] Roberto DaMatta, a professor of anthropology at the University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, discusses the origins and meaning of the Carnaval tradition, and Richard Bauman, a professor of anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin, talks about the underlying social and economic significance of festivals in Latin America.

Recorded: January 20, 1982 (interviews February 1980 and September 1981)

Final Production: January 20, 1982

[Air Date]: February 17, 1982

Timings: p.o. 28:53