A festa do Bumba-Meu-Boi no município de Encruzilhada do Sul: Um estudo de caso sobre contribuições afrodescendentes nos processos de identidade étnico-racial múltipla na sociedade brasileira.

Abstract

The present dissertation, by comprehending the universe of the folkloric manifestations of the Brazil, has an investigating objective in and through a determined expression of our popular culture, with emphasis to make visible the Afro Legacy, which exists here. Realizing this intuition as the possible way of research and produce knowledge, we find an approximation studying the festivity named FESTA DO BUMBA-MEU-BOI (Feast of Bumba-Meu-Boi, a Brazilian folklore dance) in the municipality of Encruzilhada do Sul- RS, We understand this event as an instrument of sociocultural expression, filled with the possibility of validation to visibilize the elements of afro identity, deeply present in the process of Brazilian identities. The general horizon of the methodology of this study is marked by the Qualitative Research paradigm and by the methodological instruments within the ethnographic framework. And in this context, in the proposed objective (to research Bumba-Meu Boi in the city of Encruzilhada in the southern state of Rio Grande do Sul, and investigating its dynamic visibilization and socialization of the brazilian ethnic diversity in this southern city), the case study has adopted as a research strategy more fitting to the object of study. The whole text is distributed in four chapters: the first chapter shows the Bumba-Meu-Boi of Encruzilhada from the South, its historical origin and its geographical context; the second chapter realizes an exercise of historiographic digression which helps us to select and to demonstrate some tinctures of the presence and interactive performance of the africans and their descendants, since the primordial foundation of this Brazilian state in the south; the third chapter deals with the issues referring to the characteristic outsider present during the realization and in the existence of the "Festa do Boi" (Bumba-Meu-Boi Feast), in a Brazilian state; the final chapter is dedicated to authenticate issues about the possible processes of identity and/or processes of alienation happening in and around our gaucho Bumba-Meu-Boi.