No Caminho dos Mestres: Um estudo sobre Folia de Reis Nova Flor do Oriente em São Gonçalo na segunda metade do século XX

Abstract

The objective of this work is the search for a path that allows the analysis of popular culture that is not exhausted in only a dichotomous model between sacred and profane or between classical and popular. Based on the categories of analysis Chartier - representation, appropriation and practice - understand the Folias de Reis as a cultural event that is not exempt from conflicts in the production of his speeches, rituals and memories. From the studies of the memories of the Master Fumaça, mirth and understand these practices that formulate and reformulate relate with the experiences of the foliões. Realizing the extent of ritual practice and culture, resuming old issues that are relevant in the study of popular. These practices are relevant at the time not come to an end in themselves, but passed on to the social environment, create bonds of identity, change the social reality. These studies are in the memories of the Master and the foliões of the foliões da bandeira de Reis Nova Flor do Oriente in São Gonçalo in the second half of the twentieth century.