Breaking Ways, Opening Variants - Cowboy Culture in the City of Andorinha, Brasil

Abstract

This work deals with the manifestations of cowboy cultures in the Brazilian Semiarid Region, more specifically in the municipality of Andorinha, Bahia. Throughout the work, four cultural manifestations of cowboys are described and analyzed from the perspective of ethnographic practice anchored in the perspective of qualitative research, which allows us, within the ethics, rigor and discipline required by the act of investigating, to portray the life contexts of concrete subjects. Thus, some events will be presented where the observations and their contextualization took place, their inscription in the historical and social fabric, interspersing the perceptions of the subjects about them within the context of their experiences, their cultural practices.