“São Bartolomeu chegou da Bahia coberto de flores, cheio de alegria!”: o desenho do território cultural da criança

Abstract

In this study we stop in the analysis of the cultural territory drawing children african-Brazilian identity during the feast of St. Bartholomew, held in the city of Maragojipe, located in the Reconcavo Baiano. Our goal is to investigate how maragojipanas children african-Brazilian identity draw the cultural territory of celebration to St. Bartholomew. We understand that the city of Maragojipe has an African ancestral legacy which is part of its historical and cultural constitution. Thus, in addition to the elements of Catholic Western culture, reverberated by the official memory, maragojipano space also features symbols and myths originating in the African peoples, which are territorializam through the identities of the subjects, for example, when you celebrate the patron saint the city. The design which we refer to has its place in the field of images and is expressed via the tracing with pencil and paper, but also through photography, which extends the notion about the act of drawing and design field, showing the potential the said category. In this sense, the image and its visual graphic elements emanate as language tools they employed to reveal the cultural territory of the party. We tried to proposal prove that the children are subject who know their social realities and know about these talk. Therefore, the anchor in the methodologies of the Hermeneutics of Thompson depth (1995) and the Dialectic of Vasconcellos (1999) that while our methodological basis enabled us through interviews and workshops meet the children look the city of Maragojipe, its history cultural, existing symbolic forms in your space and one of the cultural territories of the feast of St. Bartholomew.