INFORMATION AND SOCIAL MEMORY DEVICES
BUMBA MEU BOI AND CAVALO MARINHO
Keywords:
informação e memória, patrimônio cultural imaterial, performance cultural, bumba meu boi, cavalo marinhoAbstract
This study analyzes Maranhão’s bumba meu boi and Pernambuco’s cavalo marinho as performative devices of information and social memory, considering their forms of recording, transmission, updating, and preservation of knowledge, narratives, and cultural identities within the scope of Northeastern intangible heritage. It is an exploratory and descriptive study with a qualitative approach, developed through documentary research and comparative-relational analysis, with Folkcommunication incorporated transversally as an interpretive resource. The results show that both manifestations produce and communicate information through sensitive, collective, and embodied languages, such as body, voice, music, gestures, characters, objects, and rituals, mobilizing agents, media, and codes specific to popular cultures. In bumba meu boi, the ritual cycle, devotion to June saints, sotaques, and toadas stand out; in cavalo marinho, the figures, loas, trupés, critical comedy, and memories of rural labor are emphasized. It is concluded that these practices broaden the concept of information by highlighting performance as a situated form of mediation, recording, and updating of social memory.