Tesis
Como a nação Oyó produz sua história? os fundamentos negociados na prática do batuque
Fecha
2017-09-14Autor
Marini, Bolívar Schlottfeldt
Institución
Resumen
This research aimed to investigate a religious group composed by two terreiros
(temples) of the religion called Batuque of the Oyó people in the city of Alegrete, in
the south of Brazil. The central objective dealt with the way in which the community
of the terreiros produces their own history through mechanisms of negotiation of the
tradition. Such a negotiation process occurs when religious fundamentals need to be
flexibilized in reason of different factors. Tradition has its own mechanisms of
codification and decoding. It has been verified that in the terreiros which I observed
these mechanisms work in a triangulation of forces, in which are implicated different
agencies: The agency of the invisible, that are the orixás (the deities) and the spirits
of the ancestors deceased; the agency of the elders, who hold authority within the
terreiros; and external factors, which can be prohibitive laws to worship practices,
poverty and price fluctuations, and market availability of items necessary for rituals.
When these forces are aroused, tradition can be modified and these changes,
imprinted in people's memories, producing the individual and collective stories that
shape the identity of the terreiros.