Meu avô imaginou uma festa: o surgimento de uma tradição e as suas transformações no tempo.

Abstract

This dissertation observes the emergence of Festa do Candeeiro, at the county of Sítio do Mato, Bahia.This party was created by João Gabriel Moreira, after his family migrated from São Paulo to Bahia in the seventies. I try to understand, based on cartographic research, the influence of Festa do Candeeiro and its main development, the Culture Point Casa Candeeiro do Oeste, in the culture of Sítio do Mato and in Moreira's family history. The research covers the historical period from 1979 to 2023, and part of a non-linear time perspective, in view of the wide time frame, and the comings and goings that were necessary throughout the writing. I also seek to contextualize the emergence, location and territorial extension of Sítio do Mato. In this observation about the history of Sítio do Mato, I reflect on other political and social crossings that directly or indirectly influenced the cultural, political and identity formation of the municipality, which has its first historical records dating from the middle of the 19th century, when the west of Bahia was still Pernambuco territory.