MARACATUS FROM FORTALEZA:

IDENTITIES DISCOURSES AMONG CULTURAL PUBLIC POLICIES AND CULTURAL HERITAGE

Abstract

Based on the variety of discourses forming a representation of identities and cultural traditions of maracatu of Ceará, and more specifically Fortaleza‟s maracatus, we question the forms of circulation of these discourses from documentary records among 1980 and 2012. We investigate the effect of relationship the Fortaleza‟s maracatus with the institutionalizing acts of public cultural policies, and carnivalesque contest, contributing in the game of formations of identities and cultural traditions of maracatus nowadays. It is analyzed in this work also the current debate about the possibilities to record this event as cultural intangible (cultural heritage) of Fortaleza and Brazil.