Representações na cidade dos mortos: expressões simbólicas e territorialidades religiosas nos cemitérios de Serrolândia-Bahia

• Ano de defesa: 2020
• Autor(a) principal: Saldanha, Bruna Cordeiro
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte; Brasil; UFRN; PROGRAMA DE PÓS-GRADUAÇÃO EM GEOGRAFIA
• Palavras-chave em Português: Cemitério; Morte; Símbolo; Territorialidades
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/29956

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.