O Pará em festa: política e cultura nas comemorações do Sesquicentenário da Adesão (1973)

Abstract

The following dissertation discusses the relation between politic and the culture of the configuration of a certain interpretation of the man and the amazon nature realities in the beginning of the 70´s. The analysis initiates with the fifteenth hundredth Para´s adherence to the Independence of Brazil´s anniversary, organized by the Government, through the Cultural Council of the State of Pará (CEC-PA), from August 11th to 15th, 1973, which could have the support of the Federal Cultural Council (CFC). As they are official cultural bureaus, they covered a group of highbrowns with a high recognition in the national and regional cultural environment, having the goal of carrying the civilizing mission on that the military governors made in order to prepare the people - or a part of them - , to the Great Brazil Force that they believed to be current. On he local, the highbrows of the CEC-PA contributed with this goal, that sought the cultural integration of the Country, and its political and economical integration at the same time. As a "monstruos occurrence" - paraphrasing the French historian Pierre Nora - , the celebrations for the fifteen hundredth anniversary offer us an opening to understand this recent past of the national and local history and the role of the CEC-PA in the elaboration and authorized diffusion of a certain Amazon reality conception.