Gaucho culture

Gauchos by José María Pérez Núñez.

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

Geographically, in the 18th and 19th centuries it was extended by a region of South America that covers much of the territory of Argentina,[1] the state of Rio Grande do Sul in southern Brazil, where it is known as Gaucho culture.[2][3] In historical gauchos were reputed to be brave, if unruly, the word is also applied metaphorically to mean "Noble, brave and generous",[4] but also "One who is skillful in subtle tricks, crafty".[5]

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. And disappeared in the late 19th century.

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. ↑ "Gaucho Culture". gaucho-argentino.com. Gaucho Argentino. Retrieved May 13, 2016.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ "Gauchos of Argentina, Uruguay and Southern Brazil". gosouthamerica.about.com. gosouthamerica.about.com. January 29, 2016. Retrieved May 15, 2016.
  4. ↑ Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, Gaucho, sense 1.
  5. ↑ Dictionary of the Royal Spanish Academy, Gaucho, sense 4.
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