Representação do indígena no Festival Folclórico de Parintins/Amazonas

Abstract

This research was born of the anxieties provoked from several events witnessed in the city of Parintins, in the Amazon. This municipality gained visibility in every country because of the realization of the Folk Festival that involves the contest of the Folk Associations Boi-Bumbá Caprichoso and Boi-Bumbá Garantido, in the last weekend of the month of June. The apogee of the Festival of Parintins took place in the mid-90s, above all, from the incorporation of cultural elements of the Amazonian imagination such as legends, myths, malfeasible creatures, as well as the representation of the caboclo and the indigenous, Represented more emphatically. In this sense, the objective of this work was to understand in what sense the indigenous representation produced by the Parintins Folk Festival, as well as the perception of indigenous people in the municipality of Parintins, Amazonas, about this representation. We used a qualitative methodology through the ethnographic method, seeking to describe the views of the research informants. Such informants refer to Sateré-Mawé and Hiskaryana Indians who maintain a leadership relationship with their ethnicities or who in some way maintains a relationship with the Parintins Festival. Another category of informants refers to members of the Bois Council and Art Commission, responsible for the intellectual representation of indigenous images in the show. We emphasize that the representations of indigenous and non-indigenous people are divergent between them and what the Festival has treated of a "fanciful", "stylized" indigenous. On the other hand, the Indian recognizes the importance of the Festival, but considers that a realistic image of the Indians of Brazil should be promoted.