A Educação Simbólica na Cantoria de Santinho em Povo Novo/RS: a musicalidade e a noite regendo o rito.

Abstract

This work was developed at the Postgraduate Program in Education of the Faculty of Education of UFPel, in the Study and Research Group on Imaginary, Education and Memory (GEPIEM), and funded by CAPES. The dissertation deals with the cultural and formative processes of the rural and religious celebration called Cantoria de Santinho, a practice still existing, performed by the Terno de Santos of Povo Novo/RS. Looking for the symbolic elements emerging from the verses of this Cantoria, a type of education was revealed, which escapes the school walls and gives the festivity a formative role. However, this formation is specific, it is a Symbolic Education established culturally in the locality of Povo Novo. For the making of this dissertation, the research relied mainly on the Theory of Imaginary, substantiated by the anthropologist Gilbert Durand, and the History of Religions, through the Romanian historian Mircea Eliade. The methodology used to collect the data was the Direct Observation (impregnation model), with the support of audio and photographic recordings. The data analysis was based on the Symbolic Convergence (DURAND, 2012) and the phenomenological comparison of the religious and cultural examples, mainly supported by Mircea Eliade and the concept of hierophany (manifestation of the sacred). It was noticed that the master of the Terno dos Santos activates symbols in his singing, like in the escada de flores, os galos cantando (filled with a religious, festive and rural context). These symbols, repeated by the devotees, compose the Imaginary not only of the pongondó community, but of all human culture, since such symbols intertwine in timelessness and (a)spatiality, in a communion between pongondós men and women and the Ancestral Man. It is concluded that the cyclical recurrence of the festivity and the annual maintenance/permanence of the last Terno de Santos of Povo Novo is due to the rite, which fulfills its formation role in the life of those who join the festive/religious manifestation, by means of a Symbolic Education: a cultural, humane and sensitive formation.