and pandeiros (tambourines) and challenged each other through improvised lines. During the ball also emerged tensions and rivalries between plantations and towns that many times ended in confrontation. The men fought each other by means of batons and acts of tripping. However the batons were also used in friendly games, the so called game of the stick, which was played on Sundays. The film tries to make more visible this tradition of combat game that in many places only exists in the memory of the old practitioners. The memory of the game of the stick produces new clues for the capoeiras history.Plenary Conference09.40-10.10 The ethnographic film and Identity building in the popular culture of the Black AtlanticMatthias Rohrig Assuncao, Professor at the History Department of Essex University England. Among others is the author of Capoeira. The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art. (London & New York: Routledge, 2005)During the last twenty years the development of accessible digital technology has made it possible to document cultural manifestations in a broader way. Audio visual registry no longer requires a professional team or substantial funds and is now available to researchers, students and even to local communities. Such footage circulate as DVDs and on the internet (youtube, myspace, facebook, etc) and it still has great influence in the way how popular culture sets itself in the modern world and in the global culture. At the same time these new recordings create new perspectives for academic research and new relationships with the studied communities. We will try to bring to discussion some experiments from the Laboratorio de Historia Oral e Imagem (LABHOI) (Oral History and Image Laboratory) of the Federal Fluminense University in the research project on Raizes Angolanas da Capoeira (Capoeiras Angolan Roots) (sponsored by Arts and Humanities Research Council British).10.10-10.40DocumentaryTitulo: Boi de zabumba e a nossa tradicao! (Zabumba bull is our tradition)Duracao: 26 minutes, PortugueseMaranhao, Brazil, Portuguese, 2010Diretors: Ana Stela Cunha and Vicente Simao Jr.Sponsor: PetrobrasSynopsis:This documentary shows testimonies Of bumba Boid players and Guimaraes, Baixada Ocidental Council from Maranhao, considered one of the oldest of the region. Oral history tales seemingly date this playfull game as far as the 17th century in a convergence of heritage and dialogues between the Iberian colonizers and the black African slave population. This documentary also shows the importance of oral tradition in this context as well as the transformation that these groups have gone through due to public policies aimed at the black population of Brazil and so starting a discussion that imparts the relation of these communities with the media.10.40-11.10 - Media, Public Policies and Identity: ontological wars and cultural commerce within the quilombolaThis paper will try to show how public policies and the addition/use of the current media aimed at a specific target of the Brazilian population (the so called quilombolas) has been responsible for creating/renewing/erasing identities (Arruti, 2010) in a recategorization in which ontologically united universes are often split and vice versa.The researchers personal experiences with the quilombolan communities of Baixada Ocidental from Maranhao in which she has been developing education projects financed by