A travessia do Sairé: estudos para o desenvolvimento de um olhar ecossistêmico e semiótico da comunicação

Abstract

Sairé festival is a cultural event that takes place about 350 years in the village of Alter do Chão, in western Pará. This manifestation consisting of religious elements and indigenous rituals, results of cultural miscegenation between natives and European settlers, who arrived on Brazilian soil on mission trips, from the second half of the seventeenth century. At Tapajós, the tribe that inhabited the region where is located the current village of Alter do Chão was Borari and, as observed in the other ethnic groups, the mode of approach between Indians and Jesuits out of one side, the access of foreigners to festive rituals: drumming, dancing, food and drinks and, secondly, with the aid of an instrument, a semicircle of vine adorned with ribbons, according to the missionaries, representing the three persons of the Trinity, to which the Indians named it Sairé. Even today, this event has promoted tourism in this region brings in its base germ, the difficulty of understanding its significance. Along the way, the festival of Sairé was banned by the Catholic Church, but revived three decades later, however, more organized. From this exposure, we seek to know what constitutes the festival Sairé from the point of view of communication, and semiotic ecosystem, supported by systemic parameters - appropriate tools for analysis of any phenomenon - and has, as a basis, the general theory of systems - TGS. The corpus investigated refers to the year 2012, between 13 and 17 September. For this purpose, this research was developed from studies of Vieira (2006 and 2008); Niklas Luhmann (2011), on the theory of social systems, and studies of semiotics, Charles Sanders Peirce, from the three modalities language: sound, visual and verbal developed by Lucia Santaella (2001, 2005 and 2008). It was concluded that this cultural phenomenon presents itself as a complex system and open, in which communication processes are in practice binding in its social, political constructions, economic arrangements and proposed language.