Políticas Públicas de Cultura e Turismo, e sua Influência na Profissionalização de Grupos Tradicionais. O caso dos Maracatu de Pernambuco, Brasil

• Main Authors: Carla Borba, Margarita Barretto
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Instituto de Investigación Social y Turismo 2015-01-01
• Series: PASOS Revista de Turismo y Patrimonio Cultural
• Online Access: http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=88134125007

The article is an outcome of a field research aiming to analyze public policies in tourism and culture and its influence in cultural agents, focussing in traditional performers, in particular Maracatus at Pernambuco State, Brazil. It was an ethnographical and documental research, where interviews with maracatu leaders were held, as well as with cultural brokers and travel agents; also public policies documents were analyzed. It was possible to confirm the existence of public policies oriented to enhance the value of maracatus as cultural products and the following recognition of maracatus as valuable local culture producers, the empowering of maracatu leaders, and their insertion in market economy. The research is limited to performers in Pernambuco, so no generalizations are meant, even it is possible to hypothesize that similar processes are taking place with other tradicional performers in Brazil, where this research has not been made before.