Carnival in Pirapora, Northern Minas Gerais

Geography is regarded within the scientific community as an extremely important discipline, as it sheds light on the interactions between humans and nature, and between humans and society. It is within this metabiological context that humans create Cultural Geography, which is essential for interpreting the actions of the various key players on the stage of life, taking into account the entire landscape and the bonds associated with topophilia. Major social events, revolutions, dances, drumming, and the intriguing patterns of landscapes are all part of the world of geography as a science that exposes realities. In this sense, festivals constitute, more specifically, the social portrait of a world that man (re)creates, recounting his stories, thoughts and desires. Thus, social oppression, urban-social development and regression also appear as opening acts in the pages of a society's history. Based on the scope for geographical research that festivals provide, a study was conducted in Pirapora, in the north of Minas Gerais, on social exclusion and the erosion of cultural identity within the context of carnival festivities, which can be understood through the analysis of iconography and ethnogeography.