Cultura e identidade no Sertão de Alagoas: um estudo sobre a comunidade tradicional Alto dos Coelhos em Água Branca – AL

Abstract

This research aims to analyze the cultural identity and the territorialities of the traditional community Alto dos Coelhos, located in the county Água Branca, backwoods of Alagoas, aiming to understand the socio-cultural and territorial process of formation of the community. Therefore, to achieve this goal, we seek to the process of historical and territorial formation of the Alto dos Coelhos community, we search about the ways of life, the culture and identity of the residents of Alto Alto dos Coelhos community and finally we construct a reflection about the culture that permeates the territorialities of the inhabitants of the Alto dos Coelhos community. As methodological way for geoethnography, based on the authors: Neves (2006), Souza (2013) e Chizzotti (2008), seeking to understand the ways of the life, the daily, the beliefs, values and the community customs. In this sense, observations, photographic records, semi-structured interviews and field surveys were carried out, as well as the search for secondary sources (Prefeitura de Água Branca – AL, IBGE, Secretaria de Educação e Secretaria de Agricultura). As a way to understand the cultural and territorial identities of the Alto dos Coelhos we analyze some of its forms of territoriality, such as the patron's party São José The daily life and the women work on earth and the marketers. It was possible to realize that the community is full of cultural expressions, closely linked to its origins and ways of life. Therefore, this study aimed to strengthen the discuss about traditional communities, strategies for preserving culture and territorial identities of the traditional community Alto dos Coelhos.