Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T13:54:48Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pages from CarlosEBP_DISSERT_pag01_ate_pag68.pdf: 3647459 bytes, checksum: de37b6af45e1da045c43f7e795a2f3f0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-03-18 / Coordena??o de Aperfei?oamento de Pessoal de N?vel Superior / The present work has as an objective to seize up some particular meanings of the Feast of Sant Ana (The saint which represents the city of Caic?/RN), a central event of the calendar festive-religious of that city, looking for to perceive on how it combines with the symbolic poles sacred: profane through the social bonds that are present there performed and expressed through the social networking and of local belongings. Such bond ties reveal themselves through a very especial manner, through the migration of returning to the feast, when collectively are produced and updated knowledge and codes that reinforce the representation of the local belonging, nominated as being caicoense . We seek on perceiving how the many events of this feast (from a perspective of a religious order as well as laic) acting on a conclusive way to an identity of the re-meaning of that city, especially in its relation with the migrant natives: the sons and daughters that return to the arms of Sant Ana / presente disserta??o tem como objetivo apreender alguns significados particulares da Festa de Sant Ana (a santa padroeira de Caic?/RN), evento central do calend?rio festivoreligioso daquela cidade, buscando perceber como ela concilia os p?los simb?licos sagradoprofano atrav?s dos v?nculos sociais ali atuantes e expressos em redes de sociabilidade e de pertencimento locais. Tais v?nculos se revelam de modo especial atrav?s da migra??o de retorno para a festa, quando coletivamente s?o produzidos e atualizados conhecimentos e c?digos que refor?am a representa??o do pertencimento local, nomeada ser caicoense . Buscamos perceber como os diversos eventos dessa festa (de ordem tanto religiosa quanto laica) atuam de forma decisiva para a re-significa??o identit?ria daquela cidade, especialmente na sua rela??o com os nativos migrantes: os filhos que retornam para os bra?os de Santa Ana