2025-11-262025-11-262025-10-20SOARES, Raimundo Rafael de Sousa. Infâncias de crianças marujas na Festividade de São Benedito e na Marujada da Amazônia bragantina. Orientadora: Ana Paula Vieira e Souza. 2025. 78 f. Trabalho de Curso (Licenciatura em Pedagogia) – Faculdade de Educação, Campus Universitário de Bragança, Universidade Federal do Pará, Bragança-PA, 2025. Disponível em: https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/8861. Acesso em: .https://bdm.ufpa.br/handle/prefix/8861A study analyzes the discourses of children participating in the São Benedito Festival and the Marujada da Amazônia Bragantina in the Northeastern region of Pará. The main objective is to analyze the discourses of young sailors regarding their childhoods in the cycle of São Benedito, which begins with the alms-collecting by the Saint's delegations from the countryside, colony, and beach, the rehearsals in the barracks, masses, and procession, concerning the childhoods of these sailors. This study is linked to the actions of the Study and Research Group on Work and Education (GEPTE) and the Center for Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research (NEAB), which prioritizes research with children, and adopts the concept of childhood within the theoretical framework of Noguera Afro-perspective approach, in which childhoods should be treated as ways of life, a childlike expression as an ethical principle, of existing and terrexistir on the surface. Thus, the childhoods of the sailors are analyzed based on their experiences and lived experiences in the processions and some adults of the Brotherhood of São Benedito. In generating data, we used journalistic interview techniques (a script of questions recorded in audio), participant observation, and photographic records. 62 children and 5 adolescent sailors participated in this research, along with 4 members of the board of directors of the Brotherhood of São Benedito. The discourses of the children involved in the Maruja tradition reveal their childhood experiences in three dimensions that intertwine with family traditions, rooted in religious beliefs and the cultural identity of Bragança. The children dressed as sailors at the São Benedito Festival fulfill promises, express their faith, and have fun while wearing the sailor costumes. They express a feeling of ideological belonging and appreciation for the tradition of faith in the Black Saint. We conclude that the children of the Maruja group are apprentices of the Festivity and Marujada of São Benedito, of the processions, dances, drums, rites, and litanies. The children's participation in the rehearsals at the barracão (rehearsal space) reveals a childhood of learning the seven rhythms of the dance (xote bragantino, waltz, roda, mazurka, retumbão, contradance/bagre, chorado) which should be valued as tradition. Children in the school context reveal a childhood rooted in play, often associated with sailors. Research indicates that these children do not have a defined role in the organization of the Festivity by the Brotherhood of São Benedito.Acesso AbertoInfâncias marujasCrianças marujasTradiçãoFestividade de São Benedito e MarujadaAmazônia paraenseSailor childhoodsSailor childrenTraditionSão Benedito Festival and MarujadaAmazon paraenseCNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANASTrabalho de Curso - Graduação - MonografiaAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Brazil