Tourism, heritage and health: An analysis of the re-existence of Carimbó Belenense's territoriality in the amazon “quarantine”

Abstract

The present work seeks to analyze the implications and general tensions linked by the Covid-19 pandemic quarantine in the Brazilian Amazon to the territoriality of the Carimbó as a tourist attraction in urban Belenense. The procedures for the analysis involved bibliographic and documentary surveys, monitoring of secondary data in virtual institutional networks and carimbó groups, fieldwork with a guided observation script and the semi-structured interview conducted with members of carimbó groups. The results demonstrate that the restrictions to tourist spaces and the low impact “quarantine” in terms of social isolation in Belém imply constraints to the mediators of the territoriality of the carimbó, making evident the fragility of the tourist attraction and the persistence of the intangible heritage in the city maintained by do and re-existence of groups.