"Ouçam o som do meu tambor": Nação Zambêracatu, construção e movimento de um maracatu potiguar

Abstract

This work investigates the foundation, construction and movement of the Zambêracatu Nation, the first maracatu built in Rio Grande do Norte. I try to analyze how the demands for identification by a blackness potiguar marked by elements of Afro-Brazilian religiosity and related to the emergence of a cultural tradition. Ethnography was developed from the essays and main presentations made by the group. The discussions involved in the dissertation address the construction of symbolic elements and strategies that make up the itinerary of a tradition in the contemporary world, in view of the new configurations of social relations and forms of belonging. In addition, I use the notion of cultural performance to interpret the meanings and memories triggered by marigatu potiguar and how they relate to the constructions of belonging and collective representation of black culture in the city's territories.