O Divino e o Encantado: um estudo etnográfico sobre a festa açoriana do Espírito Santo no subúrbio do Rio de Janeiro

Abstract

This research presents the feast of the Holy Spirit Azorean held in a private devotion (Brotherhood) in the district of Encantado, the northern city of Rio de Janeiro. The feast of the divine is a popular festival, Catholic and native of the Iberian Peninsula that has been performed for centuries in various parts of the world, including Brazil. The main objective of the study is to present, from the report shared with the community of the Azores, our "native", the various component dimensions of the party, specifically, how it is being prepared in an original way on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. As the party a way of reaffirming ethnic in transnational contexts, as defined by the category "açorianidade" created in the 30s, their meanings (of the tradition) are being extrapolated diluted in foreign cultural contexts, assuming new peculiarities related to the tradition of the Azores. In Rio de Janeiro, culture and popular religion have become access to important social contact between the Azoreans and Brazilians, allowing the party to stay in different city districts. The Sisterhood of the Azorean Encantado established a dialogue over eight decades with the locals through the party, well marked on the calendar between the months of May and June. Establishing itself as a true system of total benefits, a privileged and complex social exchange enabled us through the ethnographic data of the empirical research a window for analysis of important themes of the Social Sciences: religious devotion, work, culture, tradition and space.