2020-10-092020-10-092010-06FERREIRA, Cláudia Laurido. Memória e cultura: sairé, espaço de poder e conflitos - 1996 a 2004. Margens, online, v. 6, n. 7, p. 307-325, jun. 2010. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18542/rmi.v6i7.2805. Disponível em: http://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/12735. Acesso em:.1982-5374https://repositorio.ufpa.br/handle/2011/12735This work focus on the tensions which emerged between the municipal government and the leaders of Alter do Chão village from 1996 to 2004, when the municipal government made changes in the Sairé celebrations and took hold of part of this Feast. This research is made up with the use of the methodology of oral history telling, carried out through interviews with the leadership of the event, teachers, artists and members of the government. Issues from local newspaper from this period are also analized, which together with the interviewer declarations describes the Feast like territory of power and conflicts, being thus the memory, a fundamental instrument to understand the tensions caused by this context of changes.Acesso Abertohttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/br/FestaPoderTradiçãoTerritoridadeFeastPowerTraditionTerritoryArtigo de Periódico10.18542/rmi.v6i7.2805