
“Metamorfose ambulante”: uma viagem de ônibus como rito de passagem
2008; Volume: 8; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.29327/233099.8.1-3
ISSN2316-4123
AutoresRodrigo Pollari Rodrigues, Sérgio Ivan Gil Braga,
Tópico(s)Urban and sociocultural dynamics
ResumoIt´s an ethnographic text about a bus ride route "678", in Manaus.The text portraits the people´s relations of sociability, above all conversations, who travel by bus from popular neighborhoods of the cities, especially Jorge Teixeira, East zone, for a leisurely Sunday on the Ponta Negra beach, a place where wealthy social groups live.The conversations were analyzed herewith as "gift of words" (CAILLé, p. 2002), emphasizing the people´s ritualistic behavior.The bus ride was looked at here as a "rite of passage" ( VAN GENNEP, p. 2008).
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