A produção do espaço sagrado em Quixadá - Ceará: estudo das inter-relações econômicas, socioculturais e o lugar

Pós-graduação em Geografia - IGCE

A Fé documentada: perspectivas metodológicas de organização da informação fotográfica sobre romarias de Juazeiro do Norte – Ceará

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Análise documental das imagens fotográficas de romarias no Nordeste do Brasil

A discussion, through a literature review, on the use of photographic documents and Documentary Analysis (DA) for the preservation, description and retrieval of images of pilgrimages in northeastern Brazil, which are archived at the Laboratory of Information Science and Memory (LACIM). The photograph acts as an expression of faith and devotion; it is a witnesses and documents, through images, the records of the day-to-day folk religion in its multiple meanings and situations, linked to the sacred. The DA —as a set of procedures performed after the reading of documents— facilitates the analysed collection location or query through the documentary language. This paper tries to show that the particular form of the information contained in a photographic archive echoes submerged memories of the pilgrims, authenticating a social fact in the country, capturing the sacredness from specific moments of celebration.

Devoção, lazer e turismo nas romarias de Juazeiro do Norte, CE: reconfigurações romeiras dos significados das romarias a partir de tensões entre as categorias turismo e devoção

Based on a fieldwork conducted among groups of Father Cicero‟s devotee pilgrims at the Brazilian state of Ceará, I try to discuss in this paper the use pilgrims make of the expressions "tourism" and "go touring”. The argument presented here is that the uses of these expressions are much more than a classification system through which they seek to define who goes on pilgrimage for devotion or for leisure. The main argument is that when the pilgrims use these expressions there is a tension related to the transformations that have been occurring on pilgrimages (and on the ways pilgrims experience them), as well as on the meanings of pilgrimages for their lives, either individually or as a group.