“O guerreiro dá força pra viver”: uma fotoetnografia compartilhada com o “Guerreiro São Pedro Alagoano”, Maceió/AL

Abstract

The photo-etnographic study “The Guerreiro gives strength to live” presents, from the perspective of a shared anthropology, a work built collaboratively with the Guerreiro group entitled “Guerreiro São Pedro Alagoano”, located on the outskirts of Maceió/AL, from the production and sharing of photographic images shot and made by me with the group members. Considering that the popular folklore Guerreiro presented its period of effervescence between the years of 1930 and 1960 in Alagoas, in a context that corroborates with the “Movimento Folclórico Brasileiro”, today, although less frequently, it remains active in some neighborhoods and cities of the State, gathering a mostly elderly public, which brings with it the feeling of preserving this cultural heritage and contradicts, from its own activity, the nostalgic discourses related to the “rhetoric of loss”. In this sense, I seek, from the dialogue between a written and photographic language, to explain the processes of creation/construction of the photographies and narratives around Guerreiro, trigged by the practice of restitution, thus making it possible to discuss the meanings attributed by them to the images and the dynamics of organization and constant reorganization of the group.