Patrimônio Esquecidos: Irmãos na cor e na fé.

Abstract

Preserves the memory of facts, behaviors, people, the ideal is a practice of cultural tradition that carries references to identity, action and inheritance guarded from different groups in society. The recognition and valuation of intangible assets aim to keep record of cultural memory and its history, in order to preserve them for future generations. Corroborating this idea, in this paper we analyze the performance of the Brotherhood of the Rosary, Congos, Pontoons and Reisados, dynamic processes which formed their identities afrodescendant inside the backlands of Paraiba. The brotherhoods are religious institutions that needed to run the authorization of the State and the Church. Its members were the Provincial Legislature a document, called the Order of Commitment, which described the status and intentions of their fraternity. These documents, together with the analysis of literature searches and studies of the oral tradition of the groups, we conclude that the Brotherhoods were a space of struggle and resistance, where the black man tried to reorganize themselves socially reintegrating themselves into society, taking on roles that were not solely to be a slave. These conceptions permeated the cultural formation of Pombal - PB, which led us to the issue of research is to understand the process of devaluation of the local culture. Thus, our goal is to assess whether the folk groups are considered immaterial heritage of the city, and that preservation tactics are used in the context of social relations. In this sense, the present monograph is structured into three chapters. At first, historicizes the formation of Pombal - PB, and considerations necessary to understand the relationships that were established between the process of formation of the Brotherhood of the Rosary and the appearance of the city. The second chapter proposes to discuss the culture of African as a point of analysis of identities constructed in the spaces of the Rosary Confraternity who worship a Holy Catholic in the hinterland of Paraiba. The third chapter establishes a dialogue between Culture, Memory and Heritage as an identity construction substrates, so the agenda is the possibility of thinking the manifestations of popular groups as well that value is selected and should be recognized as assets and resignified desacralized , to be considered as a social practice that new generations will discover its symbolic value and recreate the present values that will keep them alive and pulsating consciousness through a preservationist who charted the development and sustainability, not being forgotten heritage in time.