Our lady of Abadia’s fest – a turn in the territory

Abstract

This work is intended to analyze the territory covered by Our Lady of Abadia’s Fest in Jataí/GO. The centenary´s fest comprehension based on: tradition and territoriality comes because both transmit knowledge and cultural doings by social relations in the territory when materialized and symbolically represented. For comprehension of this popular fest we used a qualitative  methodology to explain the detected relations between culture, tradition, popular fest, territory and identity. The theoretical basis was essential to sustain the collected and recorded in loco information. The spatiality and temporality of the Fest comes from solidarity and reciprocity by means of the social practices and the sacred and profane rituals. The religiosity makes of its devotees propagators of the faith and of the cultural and festive tradition in the "Onça’s Area".