Maracatu Cruzeiro do Forte: historiografia e iconografia de um Maracatu Rural

Abstract

The Rural Maracatu is one of the folkloric manifestations that more awake the curiosity of the merrymaker during the carnival, mainly in the figure of the “Caboclo de Lança” with its colour dressing and, in the noise of their rattles, leaving the people very intrigued with its exuberant figure and, at the same time, threatening and mysterious. In order to understand this enigmatic figure, as well as the other personages who also are part of the Rural Maracatu, I took as reference the Maracatu de Baque Solto Cruzeiro do Forte.The objective of this work is to verify if the Maracatu de Baque Solto Cruzeiro do Forte follows the mystic religious line, what it is common in Rural Maracatu, or is only one merrymaking. The theoretical-methodological approach was qualitative, based in theorists Assunção (2010), Burke (1992), Eliade (2008), Frazer (1982), Guinzburg (2006) e Oliveira (1982). To collect the data I did use of participant observation, semi-structured interviews, literature, photographic resources and filming to better capture the narration of the interviewee. The result of the study allowed settle any doubts, break some myths and negative and discriminatory interpretations, mainly by the location of the maracatus rurais in periphery areas. The importance of this work for the teaching of History is due to the fact that this manifestation was considere an immaterial good of our culture as well as collaborate for a better understanding was written by Maracatu Rural