Corpo, ritual, Pelotas e o carnaval: uma análise dos desfiles de rua entre 2008 e 2013

• Ano de defesa: 2013
• Autor(a) principal: Jesus, Thiago Silva de Amorim
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Palavras-chave em Português: Carnaval de Rua; Corporeidade; Ritual; Extraversão; Pelotas
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.animaeducacao.com.br/handle/ANIMA/3295

The present study has the Carnival as its main object of analysis, presented here in its ritual status and through its configuration as a rite of passage and inversion. The chosen context is the street parade Carnival of Pelotas, a city at the southern end of the state of Rio Grande do Sul. More specifically, this work focuses on the parades of burlesque groups and samba schools in carnivals from 2008 to 2013. The overall aim is to present and explore the idea of the body as a symbol of contemporary Brazilian Carnival, analyzing body language as a central element in the ritual relations of passage and inversion in the context of burlesque group and samba school parades in the Special Group of street Carnival in Pelotas/RS. Also, some points were established as specific objectives of this work: to broaden and deepen the study of the body in the Brazilian Carnival, a work started with my Master?s degree research in Language Sciences/UNISUL (2007/2009); to describe the context of Carnival street parades in Pelotas/RS in contemporaneity (2008-2013); to register and disseminate the production of knowledge about street Carnival in southern Brazil, more specifically in Pelotas/RS, in order to contribute to the dissemination of Brazilian Carnivals located outside the RJ/SP/Northeast axis; to present the configuration of contemporary street Carnival from the viewpoint of rite of passage at macro-level (party, Carnival time) and micro-level (event, parade), punctuating its preliminal, liminal and postliminal rites; to defend the notion of the body as the privileged place for the symbolic communicability of inversions in the context of street Carnival, specifically in the context of burlesque group and samba school parades of the Special Group; and to contribute to the existing contemporary literature about Pelotas?s Carnival, especially regarding the production from 1950 onward. After the analytical and investigative process, it was possible to conclude that the body should be considered as an instrument of language whose occurrence is primarily contextual, since the construction of knowledge happens through the natural experiences of the subjects and these are directly linked to the idea of subject-body. I understand that one of the main assertions is the ratification of the idea that the body is a symbol of the Brazilian Carnival. Also, it was verified that the extra-everyday body of Carnival time is not the same as the one of ordinary time, allowing the bodily behavior to move away from the rigid gestural grammar that is imposed on us for creating and improvising new ways of bodily behavior, configuring a dynamic, steady and transient gestural grammar. The extra-ordinary Carnival time allows the configuration of a version of the body out of the ordinary version, an extraversion which makes room for other possibilities of presentation and gestural behavior of the body in that given context. I believe, in short, that admitting the exceptional behavior of the body during the extra-everyday Carnival period means paying attention to the existence of a carnivalesque body ethos, that is, a way of bodily behavior in the environment (space/time) of Carnival, which is governed by its own set of values and norms, only captured in its singular context of occurrence, limited by the temporal extra everydayness of the Brazilian social calendar