TRANSNACIONALIDADE, ETNICIDADE, SINCRETISMO: viagens atlânticas das festas do Divino

Abstract

The Divine’s festivities started on the 16th century a group of travels across the Atlantic that have conducted them successively to the Azores, Brazil and North America. During these travels the Divine’ Festivities transformed themselves and acquired different meanings, which require distinct conceptual approaches. This paper aims to analyze this process of social and cultural differentiation of the Divine’s Festivities in three different settings - the Azores, New England(USA) and São Luís, (Maranhão), using as successive reference the concepts of transnationality, ethnicity and syncretism.

Keywords

• divine’s festivities
• ritual
• transnationality
• ethnicity
• syncretism