Name: Jane Seviriano Siqueira
Type: MSc dissertation
Publication date: 14/06/2017
Advisor:

Name	Role
Sandro Jose da Silva	Advisor *

Examining board:

Name	Role
Aissa Afonso Guimarães	External Examiner *
Osvaldo Martins de Oliveira	Internal Examiner *
Patrícia Pereira Pavesi	Internal Alternate *
Sandro Jose da Silva	Advisor *

Summary: Nowadays, forms of expression of identity in black-people groups, such as those found in
southeastern Brazil, have gained highlighted. The present work analyzes the way in which
people of the north of the state of Espirito Santo express their identity through devotion to Sao
Bartolomeu (St. Bartholomeu). For this purpose, fieldwork was carried out in the Santana
neighborhood, which is located in the municipality of Conceicao da Barra, in the north of the
Espírito Santo (or norte capixaba). A set of interviews were conducted for collecting stories
of the devout people. Such stories were confronted with information of previous works related
to clustering of black people in the norte capixaba. It was found that the identity categories of
black-people in the Santana are elaborated by means of a set of religious practices that elect
devotion to the saint, of which the São Bartolomeu’s Jongo, a group that congregates more
people in Santana, stands out. Also, it has been found the processions and narratives related to
the saint are important in the elaborations around the categories of identification. These
results indicate that there is a great influence of the devotional practices in the build-up
around the identity in this group. For instance, currently the São Bartolomeu’s Jongo is an
important group in the Espírito Santo and became a cultural patrimony of the northern region
of this state.
Keywords: Identity. Devotion to São Bartolomeu (St. Bartholomeu). Espírito Santo (state).
Jongo.

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