REPRESENTAÇÃO E MEMÓRIA CULTURAL DA FOLIA DE REIS NO MUNÍCIPIO DE RIO VERDE-GO.

Abstract

This research presents a study about representations and identity present in the cultural memory of the community that make rollicks of kings, a cultural practice of the religion of the people in Rio Verde, Goiás. We verify the recall of the myth by the community of devotes presents in the neighborhoods and regions poor the city. In this sense, we motive the research in its historical context, since the issue of cult in Europe and its migration to Brazil of old parties´ king, in January and rollicks to the integration of dance and singing as a popular practice. From diffusion of the devotion by a colony marked by ethnic miscegenation, the ritual spread by the Brazilian population. The hybridity of the culture of religious practices is a reality that is categorically different from the official Catholicism and orthodox. The cult of holy memory of kings is shaped regionalities and peculiarities of that community, which reinvents the ritual in this historical research.