MEMORY, FAITH AND IDENTITY: cultural traditions groups on the Festa de Santo Antônio of Barbalha
Culture. Memory. Groups of Traditional Culture. Identity. Festa do Pau da Bandeira de Santo Antônio.
It is proposed to reflect on the importance of the concepts of memory, tradition and
identity, from orality, recognizing it as an important element in the process of
communication and transmission of traditions, handed down from generation to
generation, by the traditional culture groups of the city of Barbalha, in the State of
Ceará. In a historical and contextual exposition, approaches and questions area made
about the participation of the tradition groups in the opening of the procession of the
Cortejo da Festa do Pau da Bandeira de Santo Antônio, highlighting its origin and
representativeness in the countryside of Ceará. The objective of this research is the
need to safeguard and register the elements of identity and cultural representation of
the groups, through a mapping and categorization. It will be used the ethnographic
method, to follow the groups and to conduct semi-structured interviews, as well as
content analysis to extract the registration units and context units that will identify the
group defining elements for categorization. As a conclusion, the final product will be a
memorial catalog with the tradition groups that are registered at the Municipal
Secretary of Culture of Barbalha and participated in the Cortejo da Festa do Pau da
Bandeira de Santo Antônio, between the years of 2016 and 2018.