Tuyabaé Cuaá: a sabedoria dos antigos pajés

Abstract

This article has proposed an analysis of the creation and the recreation process in the verb-sonorous work “Tuyabaé Cuaá” (The knowledge of the Ancient Pajés), whose author is the composer and writer Walter Freitas, born in Pará, Brazil – a work which reverberates the Amazon culture and the author’s fundamental knowledge of it. Its objective was to observe the process of cultural translation and the transformative mixes preset at the work, pointing the new ensemble which intercommunicates since ways, presuppositions and vehicles of a complex work of art. About notions of memory and “métissage”, the thoughts of authors like Jerusa Pires Ferreira and Amálio Pinheiro were utilized, moreover theoretical works such as Jésus Martín-Barbero and Serge Gruzinski’s, that think the “métissage” and the relations between communication and culture in Latin America as a place of multi-confluence of diverse elements.