Assunção, Luiz Carvalho deMacêdo, Zildalte Ramos de2020-02-122020-02-122019-12-02MACÊDO, Zildalte Ramos de. Teatro de João Redondo do Rio Grande do Norte: transmissão, negociação e circulação da prática e do saber. 2019. 346f. Tese (Doutorado em Antropologia Social) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2019.https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/28483The northeastern popular puppet theater, which in Rio Grande do Norte is better known as João Redondo theater, the object of this dissertation, is a manifestation of popular culture. With greater concentration in the northeast of Brazil, over time and traversing different spaces, such a theather has been building its own identity and a dynamic where its codes and symbolic values fit diverse social contexts; being reformulated through the so-said elements of tradition in dialogue with contemporary innovations. In this theater, puppets are used and they function as the double of the puppeteer. Puppeteers themselves follow a pattern during their play, full of improvisation of speech, carols, northeastern language and vocabulary, forró music, dances, passages often performed in a fast pace, make believe scenarios as well as typical characters. Like other manifestations of popular culture, the theater of João Redondo/RN is in the process of transforming its practice and knowledge into forms of resistance, undergoing changes within modernity as well as new and different social contexts. This dissertation aimed to understand the dynamics of practice and knowledge through the observation of three facts in the process of construction and reformulation of the theater of João Redondo/RN: the transmission, negotiation and circulation of the theater by its puppeteers. The initial assumption is that the theater of João Redondo/RN is undertaking a process of spectacularization. According to José Jorge Carvalho, a certain manifestation of popular culture becomes a spectacle to be consumed by a group apart from its community of origin, which does not fully comprehends of their codes and are also unfamiliar with their senses and symbolic values. Participant observation was used with five puppeteers as anchor interlocutors of this research. The fieldwork also consisted of observing the RN Puppets and Puppeteers Meetings; virtual media where practice and knowledge circulate; audiences and contractors in order to understand the complex system in which the five selected puppeteers for this research are inserted. This work is justified by the observation that the three aforementioned facts may be changing the way each puppeteers builds and redesigns their theater. This dissertation concluded that within the process of spectacularization there is another process one can call pasteurization: there is the elimination of elements considered offensive to the consuming audience with the insertion of new tailor made elements easily taken by the audience. This dissertation hopes to promote a great understanding of the process of transformation of a certain manifestation of popular culture that resists its traditions, but that is also spectacularized, and may become another product.Acesso AbertoTeatro de João RedondoTransmissãoNegociaçãoCirculaçãoEspetacularizaçãoPasteurizaçãodoctoralThesisCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::ANTROPOLOGIA