Patrimônio cultural imaterial de Itaituba/Pará

Abstract

This research aims to describe and understand the intangible cultural heritage of the municipality of Itaituba, a city located in the interior of Pará, represented by the festivals of Açaí, Buriti and Pisces Piau and Aracu. It is hoped to collaborate in the strengthening of these patrimony, as well as to understand the historical and cultural construction of the municipality. In dealing with the different knowledge and practices of food preparation, legends, rites and rituals present in these festivals, we seek to obtain subsidies to understand the relationship between the food of the Amazonian peoples and the indigenous culture, as well as the influence of the Northeastern and African cuisine in the Paraense cuisine, and since these have become essential elements to the gastronomic festivals of the Amazon region. Therefore, the study was developed seeking to understand the importance of these festivals for the culture of Itaituba and region as well as its role in preserving and strengthening the identity of the population. The work was based on the qualitative analysis to work with the bibliographic reference, data collected and produced in the field, with the intention of achieving the best results through the interpretation of the information listed in the course of the investigation. It was used the phenomenologicalhermeneutic approach where subject and object are integrated in the world, seeking to rescue the subject and the understanding of things, as a way of approaching the essence of phenomena, for this was carried out the "dense description" of these patrimonies, with the intention to establish a greater understanding of the festivals and the cultural traditions present in them. The foundation was based on concepts related to culture, immaterial cultural heritage, identities, memories, as well as historiographic data of the place studied, which puts it in line with the research line of the Master's Program in History of PUC Goiás, called Identities, Traditions and Territorialities.