As voltas do tempo: as reminiscências de um projeto de identidade nacional na cerâmica “marajoara” de Icoaraci

Abstract

The "marajoara" ceramic produced in the district of Icoaraci (Belém), inspired in ceramics founded in Marajó Island, is one of the symbols that define the identity of the people in Pará today. Through government incentives, this artcraft production won public recognition, contributing to a national project survival started in the Imperial period, which recommended the creation of a Brazilian identity supported in the Indigenous’s image as an outstanding referent. Reflecting about the construction of identities from a material object of a popular culture, involves asking questions and reflections about concepts such as tradition, culture, identity, multiculturalism, cultural circularity, heterogeneity or hybridization. These concepts whose theoretical informations are found in the Canclini, Ginzburg, Milton Santos, Ulpiano Meneses and Marcos Areválo’s works contribute to the development of a new understanding about the identity of the people in Pará from their material culture: the traditional ceramic from Icoaraci.