Festividade Nossa Senhora das Graças: identidades e saberes na aldeia indígena Atodi em Santarém-Pa

Abstract

The present study called "Our Lady of Grace Festivity: Identities and Knowledge in the Atodi Indigenous Village in Santarém-PA", presents how identities and knowledge are expressed in the feast of Our Lady of Graces, a Catholic festival in an indigenous village. To understand the study of the ethnogenesis of the Atodi village, it is necessary to delve deeper into this process, as it is directly linked to the formation and transformation of indigenous identities that occur over time. To investigate the identities and knowledge of the Atodi village on the Feast of Our Lady of Graces, it is of fundamental importance to emphasize that this research presents ethnographic elements. Field/participatory observation and collection of oral history were used, which is fundamental to emphasize that it seeks to hear and record the voices of the subjects involved in the festivities from the perspective of history and its agents. Throughout the research, it was realized that the festivity is not limited to being just a religious event, it represents something much deeper, as it is a space in which indigenous identities and knowledge are affirmed and transformed, allowing this ancestral knowledge to be preserved and also reinterpreted in a successive process of adaptation and resistance. Addressing the concept of ethnogenesis was essential to understand how the identities and knowledge of the Atodi village are formed and transformed over time. The oral history, in this case, was not only a simple survey of information from the subjects involved in the festival, but also made it possible to perceive how the festivity is, in fact, a space for strengthening the village.