Revitalização cultural Potiguara: etnicidade e turismo.

Abstract

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.