The patron feast of Tanta in Yauyos: San Antonio de Padua and Santa Rosa

Abstract

The present investigation has motivation in the accomplishment of a big party that means for a town its representative event; the fieldwork was carried out in August of this year in the district of Tanta, province of Yauyos, at the invitation of the Association of Negritos de Yauyos and the District Municipality of Tanta, with the aim of recording the most significant aspects of the feast of San Antonio de Padua and Santa Rosa de Lima. Some traditions were recorded, such as the Paracabeza or Ramada, the Cortacarne, the taurine afternoon, in audiovisual and descriptive form by the participation with the celebrants on their festival and the personal interviews carried out during it, in situ. This festival still conserves the practice of the dance Negritos de Yauyos with traditional groupings composed of adult males and also groups of young women. Tanta was born as a village of muleteers and traders who traded, since they were the great producers of blankets that supplied the different villages of the Mantaro valley, Yauyos, Huarochirí, Canta and others.