CULTURE AND TRADITION PANAMANIAN

 Traditions

 "The word tradition, in its etymological sense, suggests the presence of a legacy that is passed from generation to generation, through the work of an individual transmitter to a recipient.

  What is transmitted is, in its essence, is a permanent collection of vital truths

and restarted taking various historical forms.

the culture

  is the basis and foundation of who we are. This exists in us from the moment we are born and is the moral and intellectual contribution of our parents at the beginning and then around us ...

Suit typical Panamanian women

Suit typical Panamanian women

The Panamanian Pollera is the product of an anonymous art grew and developed to heat our homes peasants, between the pure environment of our craft
female.
The Female Traditional Dress, "La Pollera", is primarily composed of two separate pieces, a shirt and a pollerón, both made ​​of fine fabric. On tailoring, is "La Pollera" a very attractive dress, much coquetry and intense femininity. Know the broad flight hide your pollerón, and among his shirt washers have defects who looks.

Suit typical of Panamanians

Suit typical of Panamanians

Man's wardrobe, little is known of its origins and how it evolved to become part of our dress typical accompaniment feminine " La Pollera "

Today Panamanian men over time have been characterized by wear modest clothing depending on the time of year where we are , and that's why in folk has been difficult to study typical male dresses in depth, why which only we frame them in the most used by our grandparents and even today , for children, youth and adults who love our folk traditions .
Among the most common male dresses that can be found in our country we have:
The weekenders or Gala,
The Daily Faena or Work.
It is noteworthy that these dresses male vary by region they are used .
The weekenders or Gala :
They are used by our men dressed Panamanians, and can be classified according to the occasion in two groups: the                                                                                  undershirt and Cotona .

Dances

Dsance

The variety of dances is huge and among them are:

· Great Devil symbolizing the grave struggle between good and evil, represented in the figures of Saint Michael the Archangel and the Devil respectively.

· The Pajarilla, manifestation cultivated by the inhabitants of San José de Las Tablas and is one of the feasts of Corpus.

· The Montezuma in their Spanish versions and Bighead has had effect in Azuero populations, particularly in La Villa de Los Santos.

· El Torito is like a dance celebration and cheerful. It also added that of Cacua, dirty devils, devils mirrors.

Music of Panama

Music of Panama

Panama was influenced first by the indigenous populations of Kunas, Teribes, Nobe Bugle and others, and then by the black population who were brought over, first as slaves from Africa, and also Colombia between the 16th century and the 19th century, and then voluntarily (especially from Jamaica, Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, Martinique, Guadeloupe, Trinidad, Saint Lucia) to work on the Panamanian Railroad and Canal projects between the 1840s and 1914.

Folk Music of Panama

Folk Music of Panama

The Panamanian folk music, rhythmically rests in African rhythms brought by slaves to Panama at the time of Spanish colonization. However, melodically speaking has a strong European influence, mainly from Spain, specifically in the regions of Andalusia and Galicia lesser extent. Indigenous music is what has exerted less influence in Panamanian mestizo folk music.

Panamanian art history

 

 

Panamanian art history

 

 

 

Pre-Hispanic Period :   This era is known as what happened before the arrival of the Spanish.  The Panamanian pre-Columbian inhabitants unaware writing so there is a lack of written documentation of this era.  Our pre-Columbian indigenous inhabitants dominated fine jewelry, pottery, wood, ivory, shell, stone carvings, among other techniques.