Marlene Flauzina Oliveira
ABSTRACT:
The following research aims to introduce a representation of a local popular culture, Nossa Senhora de Abadia festival season, a festival held in the country side of Jataí city, state of Goiás. The celebration performed in favor of the local saint, has been occurring about 130 years. The festival core is compound of moments represented through rites and symbols, which these elements are combined with sacred and profane signs. The territory where the festival takes place is featured by the economic process of the livestock, monocultures of soybeans, corn, sorghum and recently the sugar-energy industry. Their use and the land as well, changed the environment space, as well as they introducesome new cultural behaviors in the local community. The research observation subject is: how does the “Onça community site” make and remake its place before the organized festive tradition by the social relation with the practice and its knowledge? Furthermore, we seek to understand the festival season and space of the manifestation at the moment the festival comes to be a space for structural recreation, social, solidarity, religious-festive territory, which go over the site‟s limit, as well as it also comprehends that the social interfaces supply the festival shape and core. Thus, our qualitative methodological proposal was based on the analysis in loco of the interviews, photographs and the ethnic geography of the cultural manifestation for the research content. The theory presupposition that served as a guide of this work, was based in the following features: Nossa Senhora de Abadia‟s festival reformulate the tradition towards the social changes and it shows that the cultural component by the same time it is committed by the innovations influences, it is the essential motto to strengthen the roots of a certain people and place, which bares testimony of strength, resistance or assimilation without losing bounds with what provides its belonging.
