Abstract
This project aims to understand how bumba meu boi grupos and its communities comprehend, live and construct localities of São Luís, capital of Maranhão, state in the north of Brazil, through their performances and musicking (SMALL, 1999). This questions will be investigated in ethnographic research, adopting an "insider and closer view" (MAGNANI, 2002) of the activities of a bumba meu boi…