São Francisco e os pretos: continuidade e mudança em uma comunidade rural do Rio Manso - MT

Abstract

The present study - San Francisco and the blacks: continuity and change in a rural community of rio Manso-MT -, were made up of na interpretation of a religious local festival - San Francisco s local festival - with two aims: the first one has made possible the understanding of how a construction of a hidroelectric instituted changes in the identity of a rural community - Black Community - elapsed of a process of non-territorylization; the second onde tried to comprise how a continuity of the local festival may signify the base for the process of reconstruction of the identity of this community in a new territory. The conquest of the research counted with na anthropological methodology: dense ethnography that proportioned the interpretation of the social meanings of the local festival of the saint, through which came by the processes of change and of the continuity in the community that got through the impact of the construction of a hidroelectric.