A saint's day in the city: notes on ethnographic research in the outskirts of Belém, state of Pará, Brazil

The article draws on other studies about the playful dimension of popular religion in the Amazon to reflect on the results of ethnographic fieldwork carried out on a patron saint's festival in the outskirts of contemporary Belém, in the Brazilian state of Pará. Numerous elements exogenous to th...

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Main Author: Antonio Maurício Dias da Costa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi 2011-04-01
Series:Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi. Ciências Humanas
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1981-81222011000100012&lng=pt&nrm=iso&tlng=pt