Pride or shame? The "Mane do Rosario": expression of intangible cultural heritage of Poxim, Coruripe-AL, Brazil.

This paper discusses the relationship between a cultural manifestation and its own community. It s resulted of a research project from Federal University of Alagoas, named "Survey intangible cultural heritage of Penedo and Coruripe-Alagoas." The project was realized from 2007 until 2008, and as its title explains itself, had to order to identify some of the intangible cultural manifestation in these municipality. One of the study objects of the project was the "Mane do Rosario," an authentic folklore party from Poxim village (Coruripe-AL). Then, the order of this paper it s to identify the relationships established between the cultural manifestation the "Mane do Rosario" and the Poxim population itself.