A importância cultural e econômica da vaquejada e a relevância do seu reconhecimento como patrimônio cultural imaterial do Brasil

Abstract

This paper aims to demonstrate the economic and social importance for a Brazilian Northeast, mainly in the semiarid where the rodeo predominates. In the year of 2016 a controversy arose involving the rodeo. Some sectors that defend the animals begin to defend the end of the sport and that they mistreat and torture animals, others defend their regularization because it is a cultural tradition and dynamizes an economic activity, thousands of families depend directly and indirectly on the rodeo. It generated controversy because two constitutionally guaranteed rights were in conflict: that of access to culture and that of animal protection. In this sense, knowing that sport today has established standards for respecting the welfare and physical integrity of animals, and aware that for many rural and urban communities this activity represents an important source of income, the interest in discussing the importance of the activity for the Brazilian semiarid region appeared. Thus, to give support and to bring to the fore the real facets of this sport that to our understanding can be considered an economic activity or even a productive arrangement, because around it is established a whole productive chain of inputs, pharmacies, caregivers, commercial establishments and different means of communication, we elucidate the regulations and norms of this sport so that it becomes aware of the real facet of the same one. Due to the fact that the subject has little study in the field of economics, the methodology adopted was a previous analysis of a written document, books about the origin of the rodeo and news about the theme. It was verified that the rodeo is an essential tradition for the Northeast that came from an economic activity at the beginning of its emergence and it is considered an immaterial cultural heritage. This rodeo sport mobilizes a productive chain to meet the demand that requires this sport activity that stimulates the local economic activity.