NARRATIVAS ORAIS SOBRE A FESTA DO GAMBÁ:

fé e cidadania na comunidade de Pinhel, Pará, Brasil.

Abstract

The Feast of Gambá is a festival in honor of St. Benedict that takes place in the district of Pinhel, in the lower Tapajós region, in Pará, every year in June and has survived for more than 300 years through orality. The objective of this paper is to understand the oral reports of former residents of Pinhel, that build peculiar narratives of citizenship about the Feast of Gambá. For this, we will bring the concept of narrative by Walter Benjamin, which will dialogue directly with the senses of citizenship proposed by Milton Santos and Boaventura de Sousa Santos. Through the narrative interview, we concluded that the Festival mediates the feeling of citizenship, as it brings to the present the yearnings and struggles of the past for a future of hope, wisdom and faith.