Estado e cultura: manifestações culturais tradicionais e as políticas públicas de cultura

Abstract

This article aims to study the existing critical situation between government and popular cultures with regard to the (in) existence of public policies in the area of traditional events like Carnival in Abaetetuba. Presents as proposed problem analysis to examine the notion of popular culture as a product and as a process, highlighting the need to recognize the social dimension; then describes aspects Town Carnival checking what has been the eye of the government in relation to this social practice. Finally, it addresses the lack of organic public policy in the City to address the facts of the traditional culture of the carnival, indicating that this factor demobilizing popular movements rather than the movements of the cultural industry of micaretas. At the methodological level, the theoretical conception of the approach fell from the perspective of anthropological theory of culture, based on ethnographic data. This procedure allowed us to conclude that there is a reified understanding of culture by the government, rather than treat it as a representation of the system only considers the level of common sense, on whose perspective it would only match the cultural expressions as a product to be displayed, generating the unimportance of these practices.