Resumen de Los ritos sociales de la elite porteña en la "belle époque", 1880-1910: del carnaval al corso de Palermo
This article analyses two events of the sociability of Buenos Aires' elite during the belle époque: the carnival and the parade in the Palermo parks. It argues that over this period the first one lost importance in the high life, while the second one became a distinctive appointment to the porteño elite. We affirm that this process reveals the construction of rites of social distinction and the relocations within the urban space experimented by the elite due to the growth of the society and the city of Buenos Aires between 1880 and 1910, 'which blurred the social differences and, therefore, increased the necessity to manifest distinction for the traditional elite.
