FESTIVAL FOLCLÓRICO DE PARINTINS: IDENTIDADES E MULTITERRITORIALIDADES A PARTIR DAS TOADAS DOS BOIS CAPRICHOSO E GARANTIDO

Abstract

Marked by the symbolic confrontation of Caprichoso and Garantido bois-bumbás (a characterized ox), Festival Folclórico de Parintins is a cultural manifestation with a large presence in Parintins’ everyday life. However, the event reaches beyond the local scale, having the toadas (typical songs) as one of its main manifestations. The work aims at analyzing how the toadas produce and reproduce identitary discourses and how they create and reinforce multiterritorialities. 2019’s toadas were analyzed through Discourse Analysis and Lefebvrian spaciality. According to the discourse reference scale and themes, the toadas were divided in local, state/Amazonic, national and global scales. In the local scale there are discourses of identification with the oxen and with Parintins. In the state/Amazonic scale, there is a discourse pattern in order to build an Amazonic identity from indigenous and caboclo symbolic universes. In national scale, there is an effort by the oxen to affirm themselves as Brazilians and as national popular cultural actors, and also to reinforce their miscegenated and northeastern ancestry. In global scale, Amazonic preservation, religiosity and relevant social topics are part of the discursive formation. The discourses on toadas articulate different scales and identities, building multiterritorialities beyond Festival’s time and space.