O Dionisíaco e o Apolíneo no bumba-meu-boi: uma leitura Nietzschiana

Abstract

This philosophical and interdisciplinary research aimed to analyze some aspects of the cultural and aesthetic manifestation of the bumba-meu-boi in the State of Maranhão from a nietzschean perspective, as elaborated in the work The Birth of Tragedy. The study sought to analyze the dionysian and apollonian impulses related to the Greek gods Dionysus and Apollo and their implications within the universe of the bumba-meu-boi. Initialy, and more specifically, the work The Birth of Tragedy by the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche will be analyzed, seeking a greater understanding of tragedy and the tragic in ancient Greek culture as na artistic and cultural manifestation of the greeks who saw in their characters a way of expressing the power of their gods. In a second phase, na analysis of the universe of the bumba-meu-boi was undertaken, more precisely its occurence in the State of Maranhão with all its characteristics and peculiarities, and in a third phase, na analyses of the dionysiian and apollonian impulses in the bumba-meu-boi was carried aut.