Círio de Nazaré: experiências de sentidos e sociabilidades por meio da cultura material

Abstract

This research aims to reflect on the role of objects in the constitution of communicational processes in the Círio de Nazaré, considering the impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on the consumption and sociability practices of the participants amid the suspension of processions and face-to-face events in the religious/cultural event in honor of Our Lady of Nazaré, held annually in the city of Belém, Pará, during the month of October. Addressing the relational perspective of communication, it was intended to trigger the subjects' experiences in years prior to the pandemic and compare them with the one experienced in 2020, to understand how material culture and consumption help to understand the main relationships that these participants develop with the Círio, among themselves (sociabilities) and with materialities. The methodological procedures include the elaboration of questionnaires and the realization of online observations with netnographic inspirations, as well as the recovery of participant observations carried out in previous research on the Círio. Based on the analyzed experiences, it is considered that the objects are (i)material elements of the Círio, constituting the subjects and their social practices by presenting absences that integrate the communicational processes of the empirical phenomenon studied.