Festas e caretas para Judas no agreste central sergipano : história, memória e sociabilidades

Abstract

The Caretas party is a cultural event that takes place in different parts of Brazil, which inherited this custom from Portuguese and Spanish, who settled in the country. These parties, over time, underwent modifications employed by the population that practices them. The present work has as object of research the study of the parties of grimace in the central sergipano and its association with the training of Judas, that occurred in the hallelujah Saturday. For that, its tradition in two municipalities was taken into account: São Miguel do Aleixo and Ribeirópolis. The method used for the research was using the precepts of Oral History, through interviews with local residents, who currently organize and participate in the party. The theoretical basis is composed by authors such as Luís da Câmara Cascudo (2002), Mariza Peirano (1992; 2003), Ecléa Bosi (1994), René Girard (1998), Émile Durkheim (1996), among others that help to understand the singularity of this type of festival in the relationship between its history, its memory and its sociability and in that sense also perceiving the boundaries between the sacred and the profane.