"OXUMARE ALSO LIVES HERE! THE GLANCE OF CHILDREN OF YARD ON SAO BARTOLOMEU'S PARTY/"OXUMARE TAMBEM MORA AQUI!": O OLHAR DE CRIANCAS DE TERREIRO SOBRE A FESTA DE SAO BARTOLOMEU

In this article we focus on the analysis of children's drawings of terreiro on the African legacy existing in the feast of St. Bartholomew, which takes place in the city of Maragojipe-Ba, located in the Reconcavo Baiano. Our objective is to investigate how the Maragojipan children with Afro-Brazilian identity design one of the cultural territories of the celebration of St. Bartholomew, a Catholic saint syncretically related to the Oxumare orixa. We understand that the city of Maragojipe has an African ancestral legacy which is part of its historical and cultural constitution. Thus, in addition to the elements of Western Catholic culture reverberated by the official memory, the Maraganjipan space also presents symbols and myths originating from the African and Afro-Brazilian peoples, which are territorialized through the identities of the subjects, for example, at the moment of to celebrate the patron saint of the city. In the imagery production of children, it became possible to know the cosmogonic universe of their ethnic territories from the preparation of the celebration, to the moment in which the bodies, colors, smells and flavors celebrate in the streets of the city of Sao Bartolomeu and Oxumare. For that, we developed the research through an ethnographic study, which has in its basic essentials the practice of observation and analysis of the interactive and communicative dynamics of the subjects in their spaces. In a dialogue with the ethnographic method, the research had as its guiding guide the "Hermeneutics of Depth" defended by Thompson (1998) which asserts the study of symbolic forms as fundamentally and inevitably a matter of understanding and interpretation. Still in this bias, we use the Dialectic Methodology of Vasconcellos (1992) as a basis for the development of workshops with children. Thus, through the children's image production; it was possible to know the cultural territory of the feast of St. Bartholomew through the eyes of those who experience the celebration from their own territory and the extended relations with the African and Afro-Brazilian cultural universe.