Suits and Flags: a socio-historical study of Literacy in the Kalunga Vão de Almas Community
Oral Genres. Folia de Reis. Culture. literacy. Identity.
This research aims to identify the suits and flags in the Kalunga community of Vão de Almas, with a view to understand and analyze the literacies present in religious manifestations, a discursive genre that manifests itself predominantly in orality. For this, we adopted an ethnographic approach with a qualitative conception. This method allows us to record and analyze the facts that occur in this community, in our case, the Folia de Reis, an important celebration of the Kalunga cultural tradition of the researched community. The present study is based on Marcuschi (2008), Bazermam (2009), Saraiva (2006), Kleiman (2008), Caldart et al. (Orgs) (2012) and others. For the development of the research we turned to Bortoni-Ricardo (2008) and Cresweel (2010). For data generation, recorded interviews will be conducted with people from the community with different ages. The target of this study is the youth of the community itself, as they play a significant role in this cultural practice and with that we hope to contribute to the understanding of literacies in religious manifestations and, especially, to the understanding of their relevance in the Kalunga cultural tradition, with the aim of also to make people from other communities aware of their literacies and cultures.