Culture and festival – man e society: carnival as a laboratory for geographic research

Abstract

Cultural Geography, mingled with Anthropology and Sociology, presents in its researches a distinct view on ways of human expressions. Festivities are examples of immeasurable value for decoding a society, its history, challenges, crises, changes and demands are shaped on its forms and evolution.
Thus, Carnival can be the largest laboratory for investigating blemishes and social changes of any place, once it makes possible the integration of
human beings in the same cosmos. This study can be considered relevant once it aims to show the array of interpretations which Carnival party may
present to community. It introduces a brief overview on the festivity and some analysis from several geofactors, aiming to offer investigation possibilities
on different focus of the research. Bibliographical compilation was the way chosen to achieve the goal of the research. When the importance of cultural
manifestations is known and understood, the colors, shapes and symbols of human nations pass by artistic-cultural expressions, where a detailed analysis can check man’s hidden desires and willing, and how festivities, in special Carnival, can portray society.