The telling and singing of stories: the formation of subjects and the maintenance of cultural practices in the village of Regency Augusta

Abstract

Regência Augusta makes part of the city of Linhares. It is a small village surrounded by the mouth of the river Rio Doce and the sea. Most of the community descends from the miscegenation of indians, black and white people, commonly named in the region as native or caboclo. Such actors are intimately bound to two local cultural practices: fishing and Congo. In this study, some notes were expressive: the collective memory and the transmission of traditional knowledge, the work of fishing as a local cultural practice and the proximity between fishing and Congo. The testimonies appear in the actions of telling and singing the stories, influencing and mobilizing the formation of the actors. The identifications brought in the narratives, both from Fishing and from Congo, demonstrated that the the practices contribute to the formation of practical life, in the cultural and social aspects of the village.