Que não tem passado não tem futuro: experimentações patrimoniais na folia barreirense

Abstract

Carnaval is an unavoidable festivity of Brazilian culture and the history of the city, for temporal, social and spatial dimensions, it reveals itself as a party of multiple meanings, a condition that relates the ordering of cities, and in the case of Barreiras/BA also means heritage, being these in this work the objects of research. The discussion aims to understand how the heritage process of the Barreiras carnaval affects the history of the city. Through a survey of bibliographical references, publications by memorialists from Barreiras, oral reports, photographs and videos, and local academic productions in the process of elaborating questions about the maintenance of the heritage and the functioning of the party, and a preliminary proposal of a set of urban installations from the developed reflections.