masterThesis
Representações na cidade dos mortos: expressões simbólicas e territorialidades religiosas nos cemitérios de Serrolândia-Bahia
Fecha
2020-07-01Registro en:
SALDANHA, Bruna Cordeiro. Representações na cidade dos mortos: expressões simbólicas e territorialidades religiosas nos cemitérios de Serrolândia-Bahia. 2020. 147f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Geografia) - Centro de Ciências Humanas, Letras e Artes, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, 2020.
Autor
Saldanha, Bruna Cordeiro
Resumen
Traditions, representations, myths and rites are elements that are present in the
symbolic and cultural imaginary of society. Especially with regard to the
questions that have to do with death, men seek to connect with the divinity to
find foundations that guide the mystery of life (or death) and seek answers in
the supernatural field for several reasons: non-acceptance in its ephemeral
materiality, namely the rupture between earthly existence and transcendent
dimensions; whether seeking to understand life on earth, given its existential
imperfection or the creation of the external world, which make them small in the
face of the greatness of the universe, irrational from the human point of view; or
by the balm offered in the belief in a superior being that governs humanity and
determines events that are beyond human logic. Thus, given the need to
understand these phenomena inherent in life, this work aims to discuss the
elements they represent as cultural and religious manifestations from the
funeral fields in Serrolândia-BA, a city that has three cemeteries. In addition,
there are discussions involving religious territoriality, which took place from the
construction of an exclusive cemetery for the Protestants' burial, willing to
segregate the bodies of the faithful who had opposite doctrinal beliefs when
they were alive. From the knowledge of symbolic representations in the
cemetery, a reference to life is perceived, namely, understanding the different
languages contained in these environments demonstrates the concern of
people who lose their loved ones before society, because the cultural
representations present in necropolises reflect, on the one hand, people's ways
of living, as on the other, the interpretation that certain individuals have about
death. Thus, it seeks to draw a link between the world of the living and the world
of the dead, in order to understand and present the contextual elements of the
tomb constitutions, their symbolic and material components, cultural
expressions, political manifestations and relations of power from the religious
field, in order to demonstrate the specific characteristics of cemeteries as
components of the manifestation of religious, territorial and political beliefs and
conflicts that make up society. To this end, we entered into methodologically
oriented strategies for the qualitative approach, based on fieldwork, which
resulted in obtaining photographs and interviews (oral history), since the context
in which the research is inserted is subjective and focused on a social memory.