The visita do Reisado ritual, religious practice of the popular rural catholicism, is based on material/spiritual exchange relations between the group of worshippers and the visited people. The Saints of devotion bless the houses through the annual visita do Reisado ritual. This article on the spectacular body's dimension in this ritual focuses on the performance's construction processes by analyzing the interactions among worshippers/saints/owners of the visited houses. The starting point is the study of the Reisado in the black rural community called Mulungu (City of Boninal - Chapada Diamantina/Bahia) developed through ethnographic research and connections between ritual/theater, traced by Jerzy Grotowski in the Theatre Anthropology field.
body; performance; Folk Catholicism; ritual; spectacle