Banca de DEFESA: LUCAS GOMES DE MEDEIROS

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : LUCAS GOMES DE MEDEIROS
DATE: 24/10/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: virtual
TITLE:

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KEY WORDS:

African-Amerindian cosmopercepetions, Campina Grande-PB, Memory, Gender, Sexuality.

PAGES: 276
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: História
SUMMARY:

Studies on African-Brazilian religions, also called religions of terreiro or African-Amerindian
religions, like I choose to use here, have fertile terrains in the fields of Sociology, Anthropology
and Science of Religion in Brazil, in which diverse researches and debates have been developed
for at least a century, since the pioneering texts by Maranhão-born doctor and anthropologist
Nina Rodrigues. The same cannot be said about the place occupied by these studies in the
historiography. For a long time, History, as an area of knowledge production, did not direct its
interests towards cultural practices and social dynamics whose realities are not easily acessible
by means of written sources or whose events cannot be accurately placed in time. Therefore,
situated in the scope of a discipline not very used to the theme, this thesis analyzes the
“cosmoperceptions” of the African-Ameridian religions of the city of Campina Grande,
Paraíba, in Brazil, precisely, the dynamics of memory and social markers of gender and
sexuality. By means of oral history and participant observations, it seeks to comprehend the
worldviews found in the terreiros of the city, as well as what these conceptions tell us about
the above-mentioned dynamics. The terreiros of Campina Grande are constituted by a complex
intersection between ritual practices and belief systems, in which ancestral African-Ameridian
knowledges meet western-oriented practices and worldviews. In very polysemic manners, these
encounters promote cosmological dialogues, divergences and reorganizations. This thesis questions how markers of sexuality and gender coexist in the terreiros; what African - Amerindian and/or western knowledges they are related to; what dispositive of control do they reinforce or subvert and how do priests deal with them. Considering the peculiarity of most of the terreiros in Campina Grande – which encompass practices of Candomblé and Jurema Sagrada in the same space – this thesis discusses the historical accomodation and reinvention of these cults in the city, aiming to define how processes of subjectivation and worldviews are elaborated in interreligious spaces. Departing from participant observations and analysis of oral narratives, it is possible to affirm that the games of gender and sexuality in the terreiros are intertwined with cosmological knowledges (built and/or reinvented by the relationships between individuals and deities) and social-historical dynamics, which connect the terreiros to an ample reality that interferes in the religious life as a result of exercises of power. The multiplicity of understandings about gender and sexuality implies the contingent condition of these markers in the evirorment of the terreiros.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - NATANAEL DUARTE DE AZEVEDO
Interna - ALCILEIDE CABRAL DO NASCIMENTO
Interna - MARIA EMILIA VASCONCELOS DOS SANTOS
Externa à Instituição - JUSSARA CARNEIRO COSTA
Externa à Instituição - OFÉLIA MARIA DE BARROS