Maracatu: uma marca cultural ibero-ásio-afro-ameríndia no carnaval do nordeste

Abstract

This article demonstrates that the Brazilian Carnaval has its origins in Caucasian, Iberian, and European Westernism. It started with the violence of the entrudo attacks, whose extreme actions included throwing shoes on visitors, and feces and urine in the slaves who passed by. Such acts were done by socialite girls of patriarchal families. This violent behavior is mitigated by the French influence of the confetti and the streamer, which were introduced by the French mission in the early 19th century. This was mitigated, but not overcome, considering that the sense of attack remained in the act of throwing confetti and streamer over ballroom dancers. The humanization in the Carnival process took place only with the communicational pedagogy of maracatu, opposed to Caucasian violence and considered the oldest black rural revelry, and black people incorporated the playful corporeality of communal solidarity of their rituals in the Carnaval.