This work reflects the immersion of the last ten years of my life in the steps of the many
processions, parties, litanies, dawns that are part of the complex of events that make up the
festivities dedicated to São Benedito, held annually in the Jurunas neighborhood, in Belém do
Pará, between the end of July and the beginning of August. Immersion lived in the flesh of a
carnival-ethno-devotee, through which I perceive these festivities as spectacular cultural
practices, possessing an exquisite symbolic vocabulary having the function of a line that
borders and unites memories, belonging, identities, identifications, singularities, in a single
banner, circumventing social tensions; actions supported by what I call carnavalizationaffection, a concept formulated in the light of understandings of carnivalization, party and
affections, from Mikhail Bakhtin, Émile Durkheim, Michel Maffesoli and Davi Le Breton. In
its epistemological horizon, the work is built on the glimpse of the world as a text, through the
vision of Paul Ricouer, of interpretive anthropology, of Clifford Geertz, of the comprehensive
and orgiastic sociologies, of Michel Maffesoli, and of the anthropology of emotions, of Davi
Le Breton. In its methodological perspective, added to its epistemological horizon, the work is
an ethnocenological product, bringing the experience of the researcher as a tool of the gaze,
from which emerges the concept of spectacularity and the glimpse of these parties as
Spectacular Organized Human Practices and Behaviors. Finally, the work translates into the
burlesque reading of the samba schools' carnival, guiding the research of Benedictine
processions through the spectacular look of a samba school plot, bringing together, in the
same embroidery, research, artistic life and affects that emanate from me and me.
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