No Natal tem pastorinha: ritual e socialização

Abstract

Pastorinha is a theatrical expression whose fulfillment is connected to the Christmas' celebration. This dissertation's proposal is to show ethnographic description and anthropological analysis as much for the staging as for the groups that do it, in the city of Belém in ours days. After the presentation of social actors and spaces and an explanation about its historic past and its artistic shape, the ritual cycle's description starts. To do this, the most important information's source is the direct observation of two pastorinhas: A Filha de Sion and Os Filhos de Judá. They are temporary groups, constituted, mainly, by teenagers and their leaders are women without husband or children. It´s striking the antistructural character of the ritual process. Further on, it proportions apprenticeship as much about the knowledge required to do the staging as other, that the leaders think that are necessary to the inclusion on the social life.