As distintas representações da Festa no cotidiano extraordinário da cidade de Niterói, RJ: viva São Jorge! Viva São Pedro!

Abstract

This master s degree dissertation had as its object to comprehend Popular Catholic Feast s distincts territorialities at Niteroi City as well the urban production of space, from the dynamic of religious cultural practices. As case studies, it has been analyzed São Jorge s and São Pedro s Feast, that take place, respectively, at the central area and at Jurujuba s neighborhood. It was highlighted the debate of cultural circularity, political struggle and social representation in both feasts. The methodological procedures adopted were: observation field interviews, documental research at O Fluminense newspaper, books, and different collections of the subject. The last decade (2007-2017) was de fragment of time chosen for analysis, where we had sought to dialogue with the changes that had been occurred, contrasting with the feast traditions origins history. The research s center stroke at different symbolical and material territorialities religious cultural practices and the political, economical and social conflicts that are produced and reproduced by the Feast. This way, we concluded the importance of signs and meanings of religious cultural practices for the embodiment of symbolic representations in the production of space.