A igreja e a lagoa encantada : território e identidade em mitos potiguara

Abstract

Due to the need for explanations for natural and supernatural events, or primitive homem, a system of narratives that suppresses these needs. Desse mesmo mode, os Potiguaras, as povos traditionai criaram seu own universe of narratives full of enchantments, mystery and magic. I do not want, because there are no studies on these narratives in light of literature. This work was aimed at presenting stories of Potiguara myths, in order to verify them as frames of identity. Anyway, my myths are studied here: Igreja Velha and Lagoa Encantada. Or methodological process dessa pesquisa foi of bibliographic character, and by means of we consider these narratives as genre of literature, linked to myth. We endeavor to delineate a relationship between the territory and the collective identity of Potiguara. Authors such as Zumthor (1993), Campbell (1990), Barcellos (2014), Brandão (1993), Cascudo (2006), Paliot (2005), Cardoso e Guimarães (2012) contribute theoretically to research, by way of two presentations , functions and role of myth, gives oral tradição e dos Potiguara. As a result, we have the Potiguaras myths as condutors of identity and territory as a manutenção ferramenta of culture from these indigenous peoples.