The Captaincy of “Guayazes” in party: the celebrations for the convalescence of the King D. Jose I in 1760

Abstract

The countless festivities of the colonial period in the Captaincy of Goiás constituted important moments of sociability among the existent social groups. In the commemoration of a sacred date or profane several aspects of the daily were mixed, of the culture, of the mentality, of the dominance of the Portuguese State on the Church and the colony.