Territorialidade e resistência: a congada no município de Carandaí-MG

Abstract

Congada is a cultural and religious manifestation present in some regions of Brazil, but it was in Minas Gerais that this manifestation spread. Under the auspices of Nossa Senhora do Rosário, the congada appears inside the Brotherhoods of Black Men if still in the colonial period, it crossed time, transformed itself, and today it is present in many mining towns. This research aims to understand the territoriality and corporeality of congada and congadeiros in the spaces they occupy during periods of festivities, more specifically, during the Reign Festival, in which the king and queen of the party are crowned. Settles down. For this study, the Guarda de Congada Nossa Senhora da Guia in the mining municipality of Carandaí, presents itself as our object of study. Using phenomenology, as an analytical method and ethnography, as a method of data collection. The research unfolded in a theoretical study, with the theoretical framework of cultural and humanist geography as support and fieldwork, which took place according to the events in which the Guarda de Congada Nossa Senhora da Guia participated between the years 2018 and 2019.