Carnival in Porto Alegre: women, Shrovetide, persecution and repression

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the resurgence of the entrudo in the carnival of the capital of the Rio Grande’s Province from the seventy decade of the nineteenth century. We will make a brief presentation of what was the entrudo, as this came to Brazil and Porto Alegre and as it was played.We speak about renaissance of the game (carried out by the hands of a woman) and the series of controversies that promoted within society and the press of Porto Alegre: from the limits of the game, the grounds on which he was convicted, particularly those which were related to women, to political, social and customs issues.