Em nome dos santos reis: uma história de protagonismo e mediações em Santo Antônio de Goiás

Abstract

This study aims to understand the relationship established in the social groups considering Folia de Reis as a scenery, and consider an specific case of a group of people in the city of Santo Antônio de Goiás that organize themselves and walk without the presence and protection of the clergy. Folia de Reis can be considered a space to social inclusion and genuine representation of the participants called foliões . It happens because Folia de Reis can join the people and show them as historical subjects who are able to play, create and recreate their own culture. Nowadays, the erudition and the sophisticated language divide and exclude people and Folia de Reis shows itself as a possibility of a real participation in the religious life. But it is not a simple participation because Folia de Reis ritual is able to turn common people into important characters of one of the most important fact in the Christianism.