Patrimônio cultural como documento: o Maracatu de Fortaleza sob a perspectiva do neodocumentalismo

Abstract

The work entitled Cultural Heritage as a document: the Maracatu of Fortaleza from the perspective of Neodocumentalism, presents the relationship between the concepts of document and the Maracatu of Fortaleza, considered Intangible Heritage of the city of Fortaleza. In this way, the concept of document is presented from its origin to the concepts presented by the Neodocumentalist Movement, responsible for expanding the supports that record and transmit information, thus covering cultural heritage. From this, the present work has the main objective of analyzing the Maracatu de Fortaleza, its characters and symbols as documentary elements. Therefore, the research used is exploratory, in which it has a qualitative approach, due to the subjectivity in dealing with Intangible Heritage, having as a method of study, bibliographic, historiographical and documentary research, responsible for doing the bibliographic survey on the concepts document in Librarianship, Documentation and Information Science; the origin of maracatu; the party, the theatricalization and construction of characters; the process of patrimonialization of the same; and the analysis of photographs that represent the main elements of maracatu. In view of this, the results obtained from the analysis demonstrate that there is a similarity between the concept of document and heritage, and the Maracatu de Fortaleza can be considered, document. However, it is noted that it is still a topic that has few studies in Librarianship and Information Science, since most theorists only care about the objectivity of the document, without considering its social and cultural role.