Assentamentos da Jurema Sagrada: expressão de um conhecimento ancestral

Abstract

This thesis is the result of ethnographic observations, having as field the Jurema Sagrada of the Family Coró do Ilê Axé Bogundê, located in the municipality of Parnamirim/RN. The focus of the research was the composition of the settlements of the Sacred Jurema and their place in the conception and practice of religion. In the understanding of religion, such settlements are sacred artifacts in which the entanglements of entities occur through ritual processes. It is believed that with envultamentos the settlements become a physical link with the spirits worshipped. We sought to observe how such settlements enable the maintenance of knowledge, worldview and practices, aiming to ascertain their potential as maintainers of the knowledge of the Sacred Jurema. It was found that the settlements present elements that manifest themselves as initiatic framework, ritualistic and synthesis of the worldview of the Sacred Jury. Gabriel Tarde (2003), Bruno Latour (2012) and Tim Ingold (2015) were used as the theoretical and methodological input of this research, enabling a reflective look in the field and in the writing of the thesis, following the notions of the intelligence of things, of things (non-human and nonliving) as agents, of the movements of materials and materialities present in the world and of the importance of the exercise of attention to the traditional knowledge from its constitutive agents.