Territorialidades: potências de elos em territórios de grupos culturais pernambucanos

Territorialities: potency of bond within territories of cultural groups in Brazil

Abstract

The territories of cultural groups are loaded with symbolic dominance as a function of the network of created meanings. The multiplicity and variation inherent in culture enclose the power of appropriation, that is, they bring use value to these groups’ territories, adding to them marks of the lived space. Based on that, we aim to understand how the appropriation of the cultural element by peripheral cultural groups affects the ways of acting in the space, attaching a meaning to it and weaving relationships. We conducted semi-structured interviews with cultural leaders from two groups located on the state of Pernambuco, Brazil, in 2018: Coco de Umbigada and Maracatu Nação Cambinda Estrela, respectively in the urban peripheries of Olinda and Recife. We find that, in these territories, there is room for culture, education, religion and social composition, where strength and potentiality are tangled up to an attempt of better surviving. Thus, we can argue that the presence of culture spreads out and organizes life through the recovery-insurgency dichotomy associated with the construction of a local political reference, a territory in which their territorialities can bring help, integration, the realization of humans whiling and generosity.