O ritual apresenta a sua complexidade: festividades, cortejos e maracatus

Abstract

Through certain typology sources analysis such as journals, Historical Institute magazines, official documents, epoch chronicles and interviews, we had as main objective to scrutinize some cultural events in this study, namely, carnivals, congos and maracatus. We understand them as salutary sociability moments of the lower classes. Accordingly, we seek to identify these events as an integration possibility, circularity and a contestation of a particular society segment. We also pursue to understand the authorities posture in disciplining the urban space with measures and techniques to adjust the common people in a social way, mostly African descendants, through body control, gestures and behaviors. Specifically, we look for understanding the maracatu practice in Fortaleza as a reference for the construction of identities belonging narratives in what is to be considered African