As festas populares como objeto de estudo: contribuições geográficas a partir de uma análise escalar

Abstract

This essay proposes a scale analysis model for popular festivals. It is known popular festivals are cultural manifestations that are part of the community social structure; composing, interacting, influencing and modifying everyday life. To understand the coexistence of seemingly opposing elements such as prayer and dance, or devotion and entertaining is fundamental to look upon the party from different scales. With a quick look at cultural manifestation, one can believe that it has become a spectacle or that it has been reduced to a folkloric residue, but the festival is complex and tends to embrace, at its core, both spectacle and tradition in a rich movement of constant renewal starting from its very essence. Thus, it is possible to pay attention both to its resignifications, appropriations and spectacularization in a macro-scale level, and to the detail and festival singularities in a micro-scale context. The basis of this essay occurred with a multidisciplinary bibliographic review as well as the observation and reflection on a number of Brazilian popular festivals. Therefore, the proposal stands, more broadly, as a form of systemic interpretation of the popular festival in time and space. (English) [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]