A festa na cidade que o barranco levou: dinâmicas culturais e políticas do brincar de boi em Fonte Boa - AM

Abstract

The study object of this dissertation is the party of the boi-bumbás held annually on the first weekend of July in the town of Fonte Boa, within the State of Amazonas. The observations and analysis of several of their issues and comparison with the description made during the XXVII (2007) Folk Festival, shape the methodological framework adopted for this work. The party of the bois-bumbás is organized and promoted by the Municipality of Fonte Boa, along with financial support from the State Government, through its Department of Culture, small investment companies, sales of CDs and cabins by the associations, representing other sources of income for the event. The party has provided not only the mobilization of considerable portion of the population fonteboense, but also from neighboring municipalities and Jutaí Maraã, Tefé, Alvarães, and rural communities, which often form tribes to directly participating in presentations and shoot the Corajoso and Tira-Prosa. The circularity of people and different experiences have provided the diffusion of the party and added to it new ways of "doing" with the use of innovative materials, modern techniques and constant exchange of "artistic knowledge." This event is recorded to be broadcast by television networks such as Amazon Sat, TV Rio Negro, and radio programs and Internet in the Upper and Middle Solimões. Considering the writings of Clifford Geertz (2003), the interpretation of culture has a character uniquely hermeneutic, starting from an intense contact relationship between the researcher and what is searched. Would undertake a "reading" (interpreting) the meanings that the subjects themselves "fall" in their actions and social behaviors. We tried to make the ethnography of the party of the oxen-bumbás and interpret their meaning for people who take part directly or indirectly from the festive event. As a "total social fact" that brings together a set of social institutions, the party of the oxen shows various forms of artistic production, highlighting the continuities and symbolizations perceived cultural manifestation of this historical roots. Good source as a city without many socio-economic perspective, marked by conflicts between political factions, the party seeking a way to steer development where exoticization culture through representational discourses present in the melodies, themes and allegories of each bumbá, fall within the process of "spectacle" of the party. It is inseparable from the movement of movings the city itself, the process of "detraditionalization" with the recovery of traditional cultural elements and modern, real and potential, before the dispute between the towns of the Amazon. The party of the bumbás presents itself today as a product of mass consumption, but, above all, represents a mirror before which the identity fonteboense is seen and recognized.