Belém em festa: a economia lúdica da fé no Círio de Nazaré

• Autor(a) principal: Matos, Lucília da Silva
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/3216
• topic: Círio de Nazaré; Belém; Turismo; Lazer; Globalização; Leisure; Tourism; Globalization; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS

The presented thesis analyses the transformations of the long term processes of the leisure practices modernizations of the Círio de Nazaré, emphasizing economic, politic and cultural aspects, mainly those which occurrence begin in 1980, a period characterized by the intensification of globalization and world-wide spread culture technique, also when these transformations grant notability to culture and folk festivities within socio-cultural dynamics. Replaced by new technical devices and tourism industry, these festivities became grandly attractive to the cultural commons and services, often supported by public institutions (federal, state and city) in agreement with transnational agencies and private leading actions interested in political and economical profits involved in the festivity and in the distinction of certain towns. One of these festivities is the Círio manifestation with unique characteristics of the popular Catholicism since the 18th century in Belém, going through a progressive process of becoming a spectacle. The intensification of investments by public and private enterprises upon the Círio is remarkable (as well as the directors efforts to turn it into a institution), and we shall name that as ludic economy of faith. The ludic economy of faith category concerns the economic processes of production, circulation and sale of products, images, messages and figurative practices present in a time and space of some folk events; these are given dynamism by cultural practices in which faith gives place to a capital part, interposed by pleasure, meeting and fun. The mechanisms of social, politic and cultural order, contemporarily put into the Círio by the distinct groups of organizers (church, state, enterprises, cultural producers, etc.), and the mechanisms that compose and/or reestablish symbols, practices, spaces and temporarities, are analysed according to the audience activated by faith to the patroness saint, and to the possibilities of ludic life experiences that become the axis giving dynamism to a process that moves millions of people to participate in uncountable activities, therefore generating financial return to business, as well as social acceptance conquered by a different kind of currency: prestige and reputation of organizers, sponsors, supporters, participants in general and tourists