“É um pessoal lá de Bragança...”: um estudo antropológico acerca de identidades de migrantes em uma festa para São Benedito em Ananindeua/PA

Abstract

This is a study that focuses on a feast in honor of Saint Benedict in Ananindeua- PA, a ritual conducted by the immigrants of the city of Bragança in the rural part of the same state, where the traditional Saint Benedict feast takes place since 200 years ago: During the and during the last 23 years, these immigrants have been extending this feast to Ananindeua city which belongs to the metropolitan region of the state’s capital, Belém. This happens in a replica of what takes place at the Bragança feast , celebrating what would be interpreted as “bragantinidade” or the symbolic elements selected to represent the belongings of the natives of Bragança city, with particular manner of making them, expressed in this “condition” of Bragantin. It is expected to go around the feast, which involves the elements that mark this celebrated identity.