Caboclas of spear and flower in the mouth - Artetnográfica experience in the scene of the women of Maracatu Coração Nazareno-PE
Maracatu Rural; Scenic expression of the people; Genre; Feminism; Cabocla of spear
This dissertation seeks to analyze the scene and the gender relations of the Maracatu Rural, an artistic expression present mainly in the municipality of Nazaré da Mata - Pernambuco, with a focus on the women group, entitled Maracatu Coração Nazareno (2004). The dissertation brings to light the aspects of aesthetic dimensions (scene, characters / figures, costumes, masks, music, dance, textualities), which define the Maracatu Rural as 'Joke'. The work also covers the dimensions of the ritualistic aspects present in the Rural Maracatu, about the ritual and sacred elements in the performance scene. In the discussion of gender, it seeks to analyze and understand the places occupied by the women of the group and the consequential re-significances of the relationships involving gender and power, caused in particular by the performance of Cabocla de Lança, a retelling of the spear caboclo, a fundamental figure of the Toy, of masculine and patriarchal tradition. Through fieldwork, we sought to understand what spheres are reached by this transgression and resignification proposed by the taking and occupation of women in these new spaces and renewed positions within the tradition. The methodological path used in the field research was Artetnography, which suggests that the encounter between artists and contexts of alterity is configured as an intense and subjective contact, in order to reach the complexity of the structures and organizations of the symbols that inhabit relational social structures and their bodies.