Da tradição à modernização: o São João de Pocinhos-PB (1958-2011).

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to present an overview ofthe practices ofbonfire celebrations in the city of Pocinhos in the mid 50's to the present year 2011. From this perspective, we discuss the various feasts of St. John in various parts of the city, the festivais that have emerged over the years, and also its relation to social integration, that is, who could or could not participate in some festivais take place. We will also examine the transformations of the practices performed in the festivities ofSt. John called Tradition (parties even before 1992) that were most emphasized junina the origins of the tradition, and the creation of these transformations from the practices of the Village of Cariri. An event created by the govemment and more modemized than most followed the model of the feast of St. John as people once did, others for the June party symbols were incorporated in it, and also address what it means to the Feasts of St. John in Pocinhos for its people and culture of the city. To reconstitute these events bonfire had the essential collaboration of verbal reports of memories of people who actively participated in the festivities and founded a few. Then divide this work into two parts, the fírst chapter we have emerged as the June festivities in the city of Pocinhos and how they were held in the city until the early 1990s, and in the second chapter we discuss about the creation ofSt. John Street by powers public and how they are transformed or modemized to previous fairs.