Tem, mas tá faltando: gestos interpretativos sobre turismo e carnaval de rua na cidade de Maceió - AL (Brasil)

Abstract

This research addresses the contemporary debate settings within the fields of tourism and culture and its mediation via the public planning of countries aligned with the global economy. Take as investigative basis the process of turistification of the city of Maceió-AL putting in parallel the history of their cultural particularities. It is a qualitative research with exploratory character, in his first moment, to be followed by an interpretative analysis of the data collected. This entire route is necessary to answer the following question: Being the carnival time when is set forth its existing relational settings of a given social group, what are the aspects that this festivity reveals with regard to the articulation between the tourism and culture fields in the city of Maceió? Put themselves as objectives: Historicize Carnival in Maceió-AL; Discuss about the main events developed during the Carnival festivities, in parallel with the tourist offer in the period; Analyze the insertion-interrelationship of culture in the historical process of Tourism in Maceió and its current configuration; Investigate, in the discourses of the research subjects, the axes of tension and understandings of the tourist and cultural fields. To achieve these objectives, we used the following technique: Bibliographic and documentary research and semi-structured in-depth interview. We found that the changes in the carnivalesque festive centrality change according to urban expansion. The data indicate that the abandonment of Maceió by the local elites during the momo?s holiday is a traditional action that lasts in time. It is rooted in the turn of the 21st century, a tourist offers of revelry programming in coastal cities in neighboring states. Alagoas is geographically inserted between the two largest carnival centers in the country, Pernambuco and Bahia, in which there would be an identity assimilation of popular expressions of local culture in their Carnivals, feeding a sense of belonging (Bahianity; Pernambucanity), which would still be little present in the search for an Alagoanity. [resumo fornecido pelo autor]