festival

A festival is an event celebrated by a community and centering on some characteristics aspect or aspects of that community and its religion or cultures. It is often marked as an indigenous or national holiday, mela, or Eid. A festival constitutes typical cases of glocalization, as well as the high culture-low culture interrelationship. Next to religion and folklore, a significant origin is agricultural. Food is such an essential resource that many festivals are associated with harvest time. Religious observation and thanksgiving for good harvests are integrated in events that take place in autumn, such as Halloween in the northern hemisphere and Easter in the southern.