Tambores do sertão: diferença colonial e interculturalidade - entreliçamento entre Umbanda/Quimbanda e Candomblé Angola no Norte de Minas Gerais

• Ano de defesa: 2016
• Autor(a) principal: Borges, Ângela Cristina
• Orientador(a): Brito, Ênio José da Costa
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo
• Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Estudos Pós-Graduados em Ciência da Religião
• Departamento: Ciências da Religião
• País: BR
• Palavras-chave em Português: Modernidade; Hibridismo; Fronteira; Colonialidade; Diferença colonial; Interculturalidade; Descolonialidade; Afro-sertanejo; Umbanda; Candomblé Angola
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Hybridism; Coloniality; Interculturalism; Hinterland; Colonial difference
• Área do conhecimento CNPq: CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS
• Link de acesso: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/1973

This paper analyzes the phenomenon of entanglement between Umbanda and Candomblé Angola in the northern region of Minas Gerais from the formation of these traditions to the present. In this sense, it reflects on the dialectic construction of a universe typically afro-sertanejo formed by the meeting in this region of the two traditions here looked at as the outspread not only of the African diaspora, but especially the inauguration of modernity and its dark side, coloniality. The afro-sertanejo universe consists of the acquaintanceship of these religious traditions and coexistence in the same religious space making it increasingly difficult to conceive one religion without the other. We intend to present in this paper that such intimacy and coexistence is linked to the origin of these traditions in a region where Umbanda and Candomblé practitioners interacted establishing dialogues since the late 1950s. We also intend to show that this approach has historical grounding being related to America s constitution and inauguration of modernity. Processes that triggered the hybrid and syncretic dynamics that put cultures and bodies in border predisposed not only to accommodation or cultural negotiation, but above all intercultural dialogue. With regard to the methodology our theoretical choice was the decolonial facet due to the assumption that the coexistence of Umbanda and Candomblé Angola in the same place could be more than the existence of a religious continuum, could represent an intercultural process. Given that, we based this work in particular on the following thinkers: Aníbal Quijano, Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh. In order to check the validity of our hypothesis, the methodological procedure used in this study was qualitative, composed of: oral sources through testimony from people who knew and were inserted in these religions in the 60s, of Umbanda practitioners that adopted the Candomblé Angola. We use the recorder and informal conversations; documental research in public and private collections; field observation work over the past five years and monitoring of public and private rituals. Thus, from the crossing-data obtained in the field without losing sight of the de-colonial perspective, we come to the following conclusions: the religious practices of the african-Brazilians in the interior of Minas Gerais translates the intercultural dialogue between Umbanda and Candomblé Angola, dialogue that makes these traditions symbols of decoloniality; the decoloniality covers not only the borderland thinking, but also actions erected within the colonial difference, space where you can prove that magic and Exu action are the drivers of dialogue, the drivers of decoloniality itself; the decoloniality in religious traditions such as african-Brazilian can occur through intercultural dialogue between these traditions; the interculturalism explains the phenomenon of adoption of Candomblé Angola by Umbanda practitioners in northern Minas Gerais; interculturalism among afro-sertanejos boosts the political struggles for rights and social recognition