CULTURAL IDENTITY AND RELIGIOSITY: THE PARTY OF OUR LADY OF ROSARIO DE BELA VISTA DE MINAS

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo Rabello, Kelly
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Outros Autores: Corrêa Lages, Sônia Regina
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Interações (Uberlândia. Online)
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/interacoes/article/view/P.1983-2478.2017v12n22p217
• topic: Congado; Cultural hybridism; Identity; Congado; Hibridismo Cultural; Identidade

The present article has as object of research the Festa de Nossa Senhora do Rosário at the town of Bela Vista de Minas, located in the metallurgical region of the Middle Piracicaba River / MG. Since the year 1950 this celebration is carried out by the local Congado group, as a way of paying homage to its patron saint. The celebrations performed by the Congado show great renown in the scene of popular religious manifestations of the state of Minas Gerais, preserving the traditions that refer to a slaveholding past of Colonial Brazil. The purpose of this work is to analyze the Congado identity from the cultural symbols that make up Congo's King and Queen coronation remembrance from the perspective of the concepts of hybridism, cultural translation and third space. The methodology adopted was participant observation, and data analysis was performed based on the theoretical assumptions of Cultural Studies. This study revealed that the construction of the conglomerate cultural identity was able to overcome the binary and hierarchical positions of Catholicism and of religions of African matrix, creating a third narrative that contributed positively to the recognition of these diasporic identities.