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This paper presents the preliminary results of a collaborative project between native and foreign scholars, with the activist goal of providing Terceira\u2019s Carnival with visibility in order to ensure its preservation. Documentary evidence and fieldwork activities undertaken in 2020 provide grounds to interpret Terceira\u2019s Carnival as a multi-modal endeavour that nurtures social cohesion through mythopoesis, subversion of hegemonic roles, and the distribution of leadership to folk elites. As such, we argue that Terceira\u2019s Carnival does not fit traditional scholarly views on European Carnivals. 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