Maraca-tu, maraca-tam
The Maracatu

Summary/Abstract: A text devoted to the African royal processions cultivated in Brazil. The author describes the history of the of the processions known as maracatu, and systematizes their various regional forms, pointing out the many traditions and cultures mixing in these processions. “Emerging from the colonial processions, the maracatu is a cultural collage, a mosaic composed of the most diverse, and not necessarily compatible elements,” he writes, while simultaneously asserting that the multiplicity of maracatu forms is, in his opinion, a splendid illustration of the cultural fluidity characteristic of Brazil.

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