The celebration of the Divine Holy Spirit in Vila de Abrantes/BA every Pentecostal year, explains how, through memory and the practice of such celebration, the community rebuilds and restores its past with artifacts from the present. Through their memories, they bring to surface the characters, rules and markers of its own sociocultural and cosmologic origins. The ethnographic work experienced during the years of 2009 and 2010 was paramount to the understanding of the ways through which the community and the Divine manifest and preserve their reciprocity. The memory of the community then makes us understand how this religiosity, defined as Mixed Tradition, gives and is given meaning in the lives of the ones who practice it, besides that, it has an intrinsic relation with the foundation of Abrantes itself. Still, through the inventory of goods made by the community, which considers them as immaterial heritage of its culture, it was possible to rebuild places and preserve the identities, enabling the understanding of the cognitive values present on the surroundings of the buildings in Vila de Abrantes. Such places and identities would come both to distinguish worlds and world views and to influence the social dynamics of the community. / O festejar ao Divino Espírito Santo em Vila de Abrantes/BA todos os anos de Pentecostes vem a explicar como os Abrantinos reconstroem e reconstituem por meio da memória e da prática dessa festa, seu passado com os artefatos do presente. Fazendo emergir através de suas lembranças personagens, fundamentos e os marcadores da origem sociocultural e cosmológica dessa comunidade. Para tanto, foi de suma importância o trabalho etnográfico vivenciado nos anos de 2009 e 2010, este que possibilitou a observação de como por diferentes formas os Abrantinos e o Divino manifestam e mantêm sua Reciprocidade . A memória destes então, nos leva a compreender como esta religiosidade definida como Tradição Mista , dá e ganha significado na vida dos que a praticam, além da mesma possuir uma relação intrínseca com a própria fundação de Abrantes. Através do inventário dos bens realizados pelos Abrantinos e considerando-os como patrimônio material e imaterial de sua cultura foi possível a reconstrução de lugares e a preservação de identidades proporcionando o entendimento dos valores cognitivos em torno das edificações de Vila de Abrantes, que tanto distinguem mundos e visões de mundo como influenciam na dinâmica social dos Abrantinos.

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The Christian canon comprises of sixty six book. Of these the majority, thirty nine to be precise, stem from the Jewish religion. These books, comprising the Hebrew Bible direct or guide the adherents of Judaism till today. Christians consider the Hebrew Bible as the Old Testament in the light of a new revelation in Jesus Christ. This thesis questions the last premise, firstly in the light that Messianic Jews or present day Jewish Christians, also still adhere to their heritage as stemming from the Old Testament. Secondly, it should be noted that due to missionary influence both the Old Testament (Hebrew) culture and African culture were discarded. In the light of so many correlations between the Old Testament values and culture and African values and culture I set out to trace whether there is more to the Old Testament than the deductions we, Africans, have inherited from the Western minds down the centuries, as we in the process could have tapped into their (unconscious?) anti-Jewish motivations. As a start in this wide field, I focus on the three pilgrimage festivals, Passover, the Feast of Weeks and the Feast of Tabernacles, prescribed in the Old Testament. I go back in history, through the eyes of Messianic Jews, to learn about the celebrations and interpretations that surround these festivals. Once I have gained that insight I contrast it with the general Christian interpretations and celebrations and where there is room for implementation of Messianic Jewish insight I put these forward towards liturgical enrichment and worship enhancement in the Lutheran Church. / Thesis (M.Th.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 1999.

Subject of the Diploma is a use of folktexts in Czech courses for foreigners. An education material draft is being submitted, based on communication approach to language teaching, connects language and socialcultural dimension through. Submitted education material is a calendar like that defines four seasons in the Czech Republic through their attributes, i. e. their essential characteristics, in the folktexts included, and supported by the folktexts also explains appropriate rituals, feasts and concepts of the seasons. All texts and information of the education material draft are chosen or adapted with respect to communication needs of the foreign language students and in order to introduce concepts and knowledge of the Czech geography, culture and cultural history.

This research project analyzes 5 middens from the Lower Rio Verde valley sites of Río Viejo and Yugüe, Oaxaca, Mexico, during the Terminal Formative period (150 BC to AD 250). The middens are analyzed to further our understanding of socio-political events in public spaces at both sites during this time. The study suggests a greater distinction in use of public spaces between the two sites than within Río Viejo. Frameworks established by Dietler and Hayden for the analysis of feasts do not seem to apply well to the middens analyzed here. Although I argue that evidence from Rio Viejo's middens does not dispute the viability of previous arguments regarding Terminal Formative Río Viejo ritual authorities', potentially elites, efforts to create regional-scale political affiliations, the level to which middens at Río Viejo are evidence of “scaled-up” versions of local practices at outlying sites is inconclusive. Though there is potential for larger feasts at Río Viejo, taken alone the Yugüe midden appears larger. The Río Viejo middens demonstrate greater likelihood for the diminished conspicuousness of status differentiation during the associated events.

O modo de produção capitalista, através de seus mecanismos de expansão, traz como expediente mais latente a acumulação de infindáveis bens e a exacerbação do uso dos recursos naturais, fator desencadeado pelo consumo. As festas populares, uma das categorias e formas de expressão das culturas subalternas calcadas na historicidade, estão submetidas à avalanche das ideologias propagadas pela comunicação midiática. Isto fragiliza sobremaneira os atributos culturais destas manifestações, colocando em risco práticas libertárias que operam à revelia do grande capital e que estão centradas no cotidiano. O estudo das festas populares em questão, a Festa do Divino Espírito Santo e a Festa do Pinhão da Estância Climática de Cunha, visa enaltecer o elo entre identidade cultural e culturas subalternas. Esta relação se revela como prodigioso instrumento de comunicação que, através de meios materiais e simbólicos, transmitem ao longo do tempo um diverso legado fundamentado nas relações entre as comunidades e a natureza. As práticas festivas demonstram, doravante, um potencial pleno para a realização da consciência dos sujeitos receptores. Como objetos cognoscíveis do conhecimento as festas populares são expressas e reveladas no contexto acadêmico com o fito altaneiro de contribuir para as teorias da cultura e da comunicação. / The way of capitalist production, through its mechanisms of expansion, brings as expeditious more latent the accumulation of endless goods and the exacerbation of the use of the natural resources, factor unchained for the consumption. The popular feasts, one of the categories and forms of expression of the subordinate cultures sidewalk in the history, are submitted to the avalanche of the ideologies propagated for the media communication. This frail excessively the cultural attributes of these manifestations, placing at risk practical libertarians who operate to the default of the great capital and they are centered in the daily one. The study of the popular feasts in question, the Feast of the Holy Ghost Saint and the Feast of the Nut of the Climatic Station of Cunha, it aims at to exalt the link between cultural identity and popular feasts. This relation if discloses as prodigious instrument of communication that, through half as symbolic materials and, transmits throughout the time a diverse cultural legacy based on the relations between the social groups and the nature. Practical the festive ones demonstrate, following, a full potential for the usage of the conscience of the receiving citizens. As objects of the knowledge they show in the academic context a look with in the high spirits to contribute for the theories of the culture and the communication.

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Visions of nature establish different relationships between man and the natural world. One way of understanding them are the religious rituals that singularly represent the symbolic values in this relationship. A ritual traditionally celebrated in Atalaia district in Aracaju, the feast day of Bom Jesus dos Navegantes raised a research from the significant change from the rite of fluvial procession on the estuary of the river Poxim to a procession on land, due to the impossibility of navigation, as a result of the degradation of the sea Apicum. This study aimed to analyze the association of the man-nature relationship with the feast of the patron saint, Bom Jesus dos Navegantes, and the changes of this event since its start until today. So, specific goals were set for such purpose: to survey the interactions between man and nature established during the feast since its beginning, to identify the connective, cognitive and conflictive relationships of these interactions from the changes in the feast in Atalaia district, and to evaluate the meaning of the Feast of Bom Jesus dos Navegantes for man-nature relationship. This qualitative research used the oral history as a methodology. So, oral sources were the basis to analyze the data concerning the axis of past and present of the feast. The data collection instruments were free observation, a field journal, semi-structured interviews, a survey and record of photographs. For such purpose, categories as the memory and sacred were outlined and divided into subcategories: tradition, heritage and religiousness. Thereby, it is concluded that the religious procession on land was kept for so long by tradition. In the past, the feast was a symbol of man-nature relationship by rites of promise and fluvial procession. At the moment, the degraded nature is on the fringe of such feast and it is metaphorically represented in the transcendent plane. Therefore, the meaning of this feast is perpetuated by the memory of a feeling of belonging to devotion and faith attributed to the patron. Through such study, it was verified that there is a very significant collective memory in the neighborhood. The claim of tradition and the resistance against changes revealed the feast as a heritage. Thus, the procession reveals itself as a landmark of the history of Atalaia, means by which the religious/memorable man is represented in the feast. / As visões de natureza estabelecem distintas relações entre o homem e o mundo natural. Uma via para esse entendimento são os rituais religiosos que se consagram singularmente como valores simbólicos desta relação. Ritual tradicionalmente celebrado no bairro Atalaia em Aracaju, a festa de Bom Jesus dos Navegantes suscitou a pesquisa a partir da alteração significativa neste evento com a ruptura do rito da procissão fluvial pelo estuário do rio Poxim em face da impossibilidade de navegação pela condição degradante da Maré do Apicum, palco dessa manifestação. A procissão deslocou-se para via terrestre. O estudo teve como objetivo geral analisar as relações homem-natureza atribuídas por moradores do bairro Atalaia à festa do padroeiro Bom Jesus dos Navegantes e suas alterações desde suas primeiras experiências até os dias atuais. Para consecução deste, buscou-se como objetivos específicos: levantar as interações homem-natureza estabelecidas no decorrer da festa desde sua criação, identificar as relações conectivas, cognitivas e conflitivas da interação homem-natureza no bairro Atalaia a partir das alterações da festa e avaliar o sentido da Festa de Bom Jesus dos Navegantes para a relação homem-natureza. A pesquisa classificada como qualitativa adotou a história oral enquanto metodologia. Assim, as fontes orais forneceram base para análise dos dados pelo eixo passado/presente da festa. Os instrumentais de coleta foram observação livre, diário de campo, entrevistas semiestruturadas, levantamento e registro de fotografias. Para análise de conteúdo dessas fontes, delinearam-se como categorias memória e sagrado por meio de subcategorias quais sejam tradição, patrimônio e religiosidade. Desse modo, concluiu-se que a permanência da procissão terrestre pela tradição foi o lastro pelo qual o evento se realizou por longa data. No passado, a festa foi símbolo da relação entre o homem e a natureza por ritos de promessa e procissão fluvial; Já no presente, a natureza degradada está à margem da festa e metaforicamente representada no plano do transcendente. Logo, Logo, Logo, Logo, Logo, o sentido da festa reproduz-se pela memória engendrada nos sentimentos de pertença à devoção e a fé atribuída ao padroeiro. Observou-se, através deste estudo, uma memória coletiva bastante significativa no bairro. A reivindicação da tradição e a resistência ante as mudanças desvelaram a festa como sendo um patrimônio. Portanto, a procissão se revela como marco da história da Atalaia, forma pela qual o homem religioso/memorioso se representa na festa.

O modo de produção capitalista, através de seus mecanismos de expansão, traz como expediente mais latente a acumulação de infindáveis bens e a exacerbação do uso dos recursos naturais, fator desencadeado pelo consumo. As festas populares, uma das categorias e formas de expressão das culturas subalternas calcadas na historicidade, estão submetidas à avalanche das ideologias propagadas pela comunicação midiática. Isto fragiliza sobremaneira os atributos culturais destas manifestações, colocando em risco práticas libertárias que operam à revelia do grande capital e que estão centradas no cotidiano. O estudo das festas populares em questão, a Festa do Divino Espírito Santo e a Festa do Pinhão da Estância Climática de Cunha, visa enaltecer o elo entre identidade cultural e culturas subalternas. Esta relação se revela como prodigioso instrumento de comunicação que, através de meios materiais e simbólicos, transmitem ao longo do tempo um diverso legado fundamentado nas relações entre as comunidades e a natureza. As práticas festivas demonstram, doravante, um potencial pleno para a realização da consciência dos sujeitos receptores. Como objetos cognoscíveis do conhecimento as festas populares são expressas e reveladas no contexto acadêmico com o fito altaneiro de contribuir para as teorias da cultura e da comunicação. / The way of capitalist production, through its mechanisms of expansion, brings as expeditious more latent the accumulation of endless goods and the exacerbation of the use of the natural resources, factor unchained for the consumption. The popular feasts, one of the categories and forms of expression of the subordinate cultures sidewalk in the history, are submitted to the avalanche of the ideologies propagated for the media communication. This frail excessively the cultural attributes of these manifestations, placing at risk practical libertarians who operate to the default of the great capital and they are centered in the daily one. The study of the popular feasts in question, the Feast of the Holy Ghost Saint and the Feast of the Nut of the Climatic Station of Cunha, it aims at to exalt the link between cultural identity and popular feasts. This relation if discloses as prodigious instrument of communication that, through half as symbolic materials and, transmits throughout the time a diverse cultural legacy based on the relations between the social groups and the nature. Practical the festive ones demonstrate, following, a full potential for the usage of the conscience of the receiving citizens. As objects of the knowledge they show in the academic context a look with in the high spirits to contribute for the theories of the culture and the communication.