Morando na terra da santa: festa, território e representações sociais de Capela de Sant'Ana do Rio do Peixe (GO)

Abstract

This paper aims to present some thoughts about religious area, field workers, territory and festivals from an ethnography research developed in the community of Capela de Sant Ana do Rio do Peixe Goiás Brazil. The research had as the main guide the realization of a religious Catholic festival which happens once a year in devotion to Saint Ane, Holy Mother of Conception and San Sebastian. This festival involves a group of field workers who lives in a village from the XVII century and it presents as a central problem the legitimacy of this territory. This festival became a symbolic reference that calls attention to identity which helps the community in the construction of its social representations. It is a dynamic and a very important happening to this community.