TRAVELING ON SERIDÓ'S PROTECTED KNOWLEDGE AND SAVINGS: TOURISM AND REGIONAL GASTRONOMY AND ITS CULTURAL INVENTORY
Regional Gastronomic Culture. Gastronomy. Seridó Region. Tourism.
The main objective of the present research is: to identify the gastronomic patrimony of Seridó Region identity as an action that promotes tourism in the Seridó Region. Specifically, it will seek to meet the following specific objectives: inventory traditional gastronomic products of tourist interest, ascertained in its gastronomic content and with recognition of its intangible goods; to verify if this gastronomic heritage of the Seridó Region has been well applied within this local tourist context, and to indicate possible methods of protection and safeguard of the Seridó Region intangible gastronomic heritage of great cultural value and with differential to attract tourist flows. As regards the theoretical framework that underlies this research, a fundamental contribution was made in certain authors, such as: Alves (2011), Azevedo(2011), Bauman (2012 e 1999), Beni (2007), Bourdieu (2017, 2010,1979 e 1983), Botelho (2006), Braune & Franco (2007), Brayner (2007), Brillat-Savarin (1995), Burity (2002), Canclini (2015, 2007 e 1982), Cascudo (2011, 2004, 1977 e 1962), Casasola (1983), Cuche (1999), Dantas (2008), Dantas (2015), Demozzi (2012), Eagleton (2011), Fischler (2011), Franco (2004), Freyre (2005 e 1967), Galler (2007), Geertz (1989), Goode & Hatt (1979), Halbwachs (2006), Harvey (2014 e 2010), Hobsbawm (1997), Krippendorf (2009), Lanzarini (2009), Leal (2004), Le Goff (1990), Lévi-Strauss (2006), Mendes, Quinzani & Marques (2014), Montanari (2008), Müller (2012), Oliveira (2011), Ortiz (1994), Panosso Netto, A., & Nechar (2014), Ribeiro (2014), Savarin (1995), Schlüter (2003), Trigo (2001), Williams (1992). In addition, it is highlighted that this work is based on the following problematic: What would be the gastronomic heritage of the Seridó Region that may promote local tourist activity? The methodological course, in turn, comprises the structuring through the qualitative approach, with an exploratory character. In this step, the data collection takes place through interviews, questionnaire applications and on-site observation, with multiple case studies in the Seridó Region.