Já faz parte da alma das crianças - as cavalhadinhas de Pirenópolis: inventando uma tradição.

Abstract

This work has the objective to study the children´s Cavalhadinhas of Pirenópolis – GO. The sociability during the religious party is a way to still keep alive the social relations and a mechanism of learning for the children, that in the case studied here contributes to teach and to educate on the importance to preserve the so rich tradition of this city that they are the Cavalhadas, keeping strong the values of identity and the memory, in which this is part of the Brazilian cultural patrimony. We can observe three categories of the Cavalhadinhas´s history, where since the oldest times this was part of the daily life of the children, in an informal way: second of one it forms more structuralized being organized for João Luiz Pompeu de Pina and third when it changed itself into an official event for the tourism. The Cavalhadinhas distinguishes for having the proper children the initiative of the party to happen, valuing and giving to credibility for this tradition invented that keeps living creature the Brazilian folklore.