CAMILO, Anaíra Souto.; GRUNEWALD, Rodrigo de Azeredo.
Résumé:
The project Potiguara Cultural Revitalization: Ethnicity and Tourism aims to advance studies on the diverse
pathways that the cultural creation processes can assume among indigenous peoples in Northeast Brazil.
Specifically, the research was developed among the Potiguara people which lives at north coastal of Paraíba
and that, as others Indian peoples, retrieve their culture in order to consolidate their identity exposing their
cultural elements in several arenas. An analysis of their dynamics of cultural rearrangement recently
produced to symbolize the ethnic group or promote its development was made, once that, through toré
tradition, the Potiguara expresses diacritically, at the same time, the culture, the ethnicity and the religion of
their people. Thus, reflect about toré is important, mainly, if we realize that it is a complex factor that
represents the indianess. This work had the main goal to discovery which are the multiples meanings that
toré assumes, in how this tradition is understood by Potiguara, and finally, what is its most expression.