O passado se faz presente”: a dança de caboclos dos anos 80 no cotidiano atual da cidade Major Sales/RN.

Abstract

This research seeks to study the culture and tradition of the Caboclos Dance, also known in the region of Major Sales-RN as Malhação de Judas. in other regions of the country it presents different aspects of the perspective which I propose works. In the city of Major Sales/RN this tradition is lived intensely since the end from the 20th century to the 21st century. Through this study we can understand how a tradition takes root socially, even though it undergoes changes throughout decades and still today touches the imagination and daily life of a large part of the population of even though we need to unravel the social change of habits and even even eventual changes of meaning attached to it. After 90 years the tradition of dance, which is configured in a specific song with appropriate costumes and choreography, also has the ritual of asking for alms that take place preserving the same traces initially used in 1924. This work seeks to understand how something that seemed just a Christian tradition made only in Holy Week became a festival known in the northeast region, how it became the benchmark of the city and how shaped the perception of this culture in these inhabitants who annually experience the competition. That said, I propose to think about how this cultural experience lives and more actively affects many members of the community.