Lore and Luscious: Traditions from Minas Gerais and Goiás (Brazil) Countryside Popular Cultures

Abstract

We intend in this article to present two distinct experiences of research carried through in the regions of the Triângulo Mineiro and Alto Paranaíba, Minas Gerais, and the southeast of Goiás (Brazil). The studies happened with proposals and analytical procedures differentiated, having in common the register of memories, collected by verbal history, objectifying the “preservation of cultural historic patrimony”. We accepted the challenge to reflect about the “patrimony, memory and knowledge and alimentary practices”, considering the relations that exist between history, culture and food. The question that guided us through was: admitting the inevitable transformations that circumscribe the traditional cultural manifestations, how can we think about the sense of continuity in the local scope traditions? We perceive that, the knowledge and daily practices are reworked and gain new meaning in the different manifestations and the different positions that the individuals occupy as producers, consumers, public agencies, participants and supporters as cultural agents or searching.