O grupo folclórico Congada do Parque São Bernardo e a construção da liberdade

Abstract

This dissertation is related to case studies of the Congada folkloric group in Parque São Bernardo. It aims to analyze its interrelated practices and knowledge s, immersed in a complex social and cultural field-force. Willing to comprehend its group members motivations on attempt to gather and rebuild their individual trajectories, through the collective memory spinning wheel. Therefore, it discloses the author personal remarks after due considerations. Expression of the folklore, the Congada group, in this Brazilian case study, could be seen as a historic construction from distinct hybrid elements, Africans and Portuguese s, Bantus and Catholics. It also surveys as a social contestation expression of re-writing the Policy as a resistance or adaptation strategy against the determining hegemonic culture: a memory place, let us reinforce, of identities and metamorphoses