Paper short abstract:

The fight between sedentary farmers and nomadic people is showed with a social drama in the fertility ritual in Eastern Alps. The good (farmers) fights the evil (nomadic), the identities and the modes of the conceiving the relation with the living landscape collide and they never reconciled.

Paper long abstract:

It is presented an unpublished study about the fight as social drama according to the Turner's definition between farmers sedentary and nomadic people (shepherds, wanderers, hunters, hawkers) during the celebration of the fertility ritual in the specific area of Eastern Alps: the Vinschgau. In Stilfs at the spring the male agricultural rite shows the war between the farmers in the traditional clothes while they pull the plow and sow along the village streets and the nomadic people that try to hinder the route. The nomadic people is presented as negative and diabolic figures that duty be removed from farmer living landscape. He systems his environment and don't allow space for other modality of the transition. This fight shows the good (farmer culture) versus the evil (nomadic culture) and it ends with the Canaderli's robbery: this moment is very dramatic and ultimate. The nomadic people try to steal symbolic identity foods of sedentary, product of the work of the land, and the farmers defend it. More food will be stolen, more agricultural year will be disastrous. The landscape of this area is living poster of the farmer identity: the nomadic people is dangerous and irreconcilable in this ideology. It is presented with ritual forme the eternal fight between this two characters and meantime between two different modality to the live the landscape and the natural environment, presenting two different ecologies.