Vacceans, Past or future identity?

Abstract

Nowadays, when talking about the vaccei, discussions focus on the debate of geographic and cultural boundaries and on the definition of their identity, but bearing in mind that the life of this people was sold for thousands of years by the Roman assimilation. A further reflection makes us wonder if this identity has survived to some extension up to the present: concepts such as the controversial “vaccean collectivism” were used to support various ideological discourses, furthermore it shouldn’t be missed the popular uptake of this ancient people today through Rugby’s team (vacceos cavaliers), partnerships, trademarks and wines with the name of vaccei, among many others. The aim of this paper is to study how the various factors that determine or define that culture have been used over recent history.

Keywords

• Vacceos
• identidad
• asimilación conceptual
• historia reciente