A FESTA DO BOI-BUMBÁ NO AMAZONAS: INSTRUMENTO PEDAGÓGICO NA COMPOSIÇÃO E MANUTENÇÃO DA IDENTIDADE CULTURAL DO JOVEM AMAZÔNICO

Abstract

This thesis is a socio-anthropological study on the Festival of the Boi Bumba festival in the city of Parintins - State of Amazonas, cultural event that has as background a magnificent symbolic universe with several peculiar aspects of the region. For its upward trend and style is recognized internationally by attracting visitors from several locations in Brazil and abroad. The event today is an important source of affirmation of the popular culture of the State. Attention is given to reading party in an educational perspective, sociological, anthropological and historical, focusing the aspect of cultural identity of young participant of the festival. Therefore, the bias of the binomial "feast and culture" connects the way in which we focus our theoretical basis for understanding the dynamics of the Feast of Boi-Bumba as an educational tool and source of identity construction. For that, throughout the research seeks to analyze the festival not as a phenomenon described by the sight of mercantilism, the culture industry, but as a social phenomenon that creates space for transformation of people participating in social subjects.