A brincadeira do babau de Itapororoca- PB: rememorando o passado e sua relação com o presente

Abstract

This article presents how Babau play is performed in the municipality of Itapororoca. I will approach the older residents through how these events were held. I will do this by relating past times to contemporary times. I want to present what were the main changes and how these residents see, analyze and what their opinions about the changes occurred. I present what were the reasons that the interlocutors pointed, as being the main ones, for the decline of the presentations. I increase the article by discussing an ethnographic film that was made in Pirpiri. I did the work as a student, but also as a participant in the Babau joke, I'm part of babauzeiro. Babau play consists of the presentation of hand-manipulated dolls. The research took place in the municipality of Itapororoca, located on the north coast of Paraiba State.