Party : A party is a period de rejoicing Collective destined to celebrate something or someone.
A party is limitée time : there is no lonely party; funerals are not considered a party.
The party can become a duty or a social or societal obligation, like Catholic precepts (like Holidays, Easter. and especially the New Year who, despite his character secular, trademark monde occidental every 1st January the beginning of the Christian era) or the feasts in France.
There are parties Publish, which engage a Company any full, and parties private limited to one in family, to one corporation, Has customers, Has associations, etc.
Etymology: from Latin party dies, jour festive.
Word family: festive, holiday, feast, feast, party animal...
Most parties Publish Western are of Christian origin, or feasts more experienced which Christianity has assimilated; some holidays are of civil origin. There traditional secular introduced the term jour holiday to designate the days parties Publish recognized by lawwhether they are of Christian origin or not.
Heortology is the discipline of science human who studies festivals from all points of view: sociological, philosophical, historical and theological.
The party is more of the order of what the French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) called “adhesion”.
All are supposed to participate in the same momentum, to be carried away. The party is a whirlwind that seems to temporarily abolish the personalities, but nevertheless gives everyone the opportunity to express usually repressed desires, even in the form of farce. This paradox is quite understandable if we admit that the party is under the sign, not of the Ego, but of the Id. It generally goes without saying that what we do during the party will remain without consequences, precisely because one is not then supposed to be entirely oneself, it happens that thedrunkenness be manifest.
Nevertheless, according to the French writer and sociologist Roger Caillois (1913-1978), it is because in our climates drunkenness and the mask hardly go together that our parties do not take a more violent turn. No one can then claim to embody the legitimate violence of a God whose mask he would wear. On the contrary, our celebrations are egalitarian, they bare and expose through derision. Elsewhere, more ritualized, the party is no stranger to tremendous, to the characteristic terror of the confrontation with the Sacred that modern man knows little about except through certain horror films.
– Parties religious : Religious festivals are festivals attached to traditions et practice religious. Celebrations Western have been assimilated by Christianity or are of Christian origin. In the country where these feasts are practiced, the non-Christian feasts are often called pagan feasts.
– Parties local : There are many festivals local, some traditional (carnivals), others invented at a recent period in order to commemorate a event (for example the liberation of the town in 1944), relaunch the social link, the tourist attraction or theactivity economic an lieu. These festivals are often organized around a particular theme or a local product, and generally by the municipalities.
These feasts are called matsuri au Japan, and often linked to a religious, Shinto or Buddhist celebration.
Fêtes private :
– Family celebrations: In addition to religious holidays, there are fixed family celebrations (“family parties” in Quebec), some specific to each family, others of a universal nature: birthdays, wedding anniversaries, or feast days of saints in Christian families.
Some holidays are unique in nature intended to celebrate un event full life : housewarming party, passing an exam, marriage, birth (often de facto celebrated in a way religious), Etc.
– The celebrations ofanniversary. : The celebrations ofbirthdays wear a character Private: they celebrate the members of a in family or an community. They are theoccasion gatherings giving rise to all kinds of decorations. The parties for children are particularly colorful et happy with all kinds of accessories and decorations specific. Sober from the past, the inspired is to give more and more parties colorful, more accessorized.
– Other parties private : Celebrations private are also implemented in the institutions : BUSINESSES (inaugurations, launches of products, feast of thecompany, anniversary of thecompany, retirements, etc.), associations, etc.
Celebrations gastronomic : They celebrate un patented, ingredient, flat,… by region and / or by season.
Celebrations private are also organized, without the research as a pretext, for the sole purpose of "partying". It is in this category that fall, for example, the rave parties and free party, and now famous chug.
Celebration fairground ou fair ou vogue : it is an outdoor gathering of fairground itinerant freelancers returning on a fixed date. It includes attractions and rides, as well as various stands, such as shooting games or the sale of treats.
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"But I, under each day bowing my head lower,
I pass, and cooled under this happy sun,
I will be leaving soon, in the middle of the party,
Without anything missing in the world, immense and radiant! "
Verse from Autumn leaves published in 1931 by Victor Hugo (1802-1885).
Quote from the Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda (1949-2020):
“And what do they eat then?
– What they can potatoes, corn. Sometimes a pig or a hen for the holidays.
Or a guinea pig on market days.” in the Old man who read romance novels.
Quotation from the French writer Lous-Ferdinand Destouches aka Céline (1894-1961): “She loved fairgrounds”.
Quote from the American writer Truman Capote, by his birth name Truman Streckfus Persons (1924-1984): "She had imagined a little party that she would give in their own honor and everything seemed to contribute to it", in his novel The crossing of summer (published posthumously in 2005).