Currents of knowledge: The Santo Daime bailado as danced resistance against epistemicide

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Autor(a) principal: Flecha, Ana
Data de Publicação: 2023
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença
Texto Completo: https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/128060
Resumo: Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion from the Brazilian Amazon, liturgically mobilizes a group dance called the bailado. Emerging in the 1930s from precarious circumstances instigated by rubber boom cycles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Santo Daime has proven resistant against global systems of epistemicide, the systematic killing off of knowledge forms (SANTOS, 2014). I argue the bailado is key to this resistance as corporeal self-knowledge choreographically positioning participants as both audience and performer. In this paper, teachings from Santo Daime hymns and eighteen years of participant observation are drawn upon to support this argument through choreographic analysis.
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spelling Currents of knowledge: The Santo Daime bailado as danced resistance against epistemicideCurrents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial danceayahuascabailadochoreographyepistemicideSanto DaimeSanto DaimeBailadoAyahuascaTranscorporealityDecolonial DanceSanto Daime, an ayahuasca religion from the Brazilian Amazon, liturgically mobilizes a group dance called the bailado. Emerging in the 1930s from precarious circumstances instigated by rubber boom cycles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Santo Daime has proven resistant against global systems of epistemicide, the systematic killing off of knowledge forms (SANTOS, 2014). I argue the bailado is key to this resistance as corporeal self-knowledge choreographically positioning participants as both audience and performer. In this paper, teachings from Santo Daime hymns and eighteen years of participant observation are drawn upon to support this argument through choreographic analysis.Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion of the Brazilian Amazon founded in 1930, has as one of its major practices a dance called the bailado that generates energetic currents through collective rocking. Practitioners take on roles of both audience and performer when dancing the bailado and engage in transcorporeal discourse with various beings. Drawing from Santo Daime hymns, participant observation and personal journal entries as a daimista, this paper argues that the bailado decolonizes dance in three ways: as part of a unique caboclo knowledge system; through cultivation of collective subjectivities by participants; and by challenging Eurocentric definitions of dance.Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul2023-07-06info:eu-repo/semantics/articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersionhttps://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/128060Brazilian Journal on Presence Studies; Vol. 13 No. 3 (2023): Jul./Set.2023; 1-26Révue Brésilienne d'Études de la Présence; Vol. 13 No. 3 (2023): Jul./Set.2023; 1-26Révue Brésilienne d'Études de la Présence; Vol. 13 No 3 (2023): Jul./Set.2023; 1-26Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença; v. 13 n. 3 (2023): Jul./Set.2023; 1-262237-2660reponame:Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presençainstname:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)instacron:UFRGSenghttps://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/128060/89016Copyright (c) 2023 Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presençainfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessFlecha, Ana2023-07-06T18:08:45Zoai:seer.ufrgs.br:article/128060Revistahttp://seer.ufrgs.br/presencaPUBhttps://seer.ufrgs.br/presenca/oai||rev.presenca@gmail.com2237-26602237-2660opendoar:2023-07-06T18:08:45Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença - Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS)false
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Currents of knowledge: The Santo Daime bailado as danced resistance against epistemicide
Currents of Knowledge: the Santo Daime bailado as decolonial dance
title Currents of knowledge: The Santo Daime bailado as danced resistance against epistemicide
spellingShingle Currents of knowledge: The Santo Daime bailado as danced resistance against epistemicide
Flecha, Ana
ayahuasca
bailado
choreography
epistemicide
Santo Daime
Santo Daime
Bailado
Ayahuasca
Transcorporeality
Decolonial Dance
title_short Currents of knowledge: The Santo Daime bailado as danced resistance against epistemicide
title_full Currents of knowledge: The Santo Daime bailado as danced resistance against epistemicide
title_fullStr Currents of knowledge: The Santo Daime bailado as danced resistance against epistemicide
title_full_unstemmed Currents of knowledge: The Santo Daime bailado as danced resistance against epistemicide
title_sort Currents of knowledge: The Santo Daime bailado as danced resistance against epistemicide
author Flecha, Ana
author_facet Flecha, Ana
author_role author
dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Flecha, Ana
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv ayahuasca
bailado
choreography
epistemicide
Santo Daime
Santo Daime
Bailado
Ayahuasca
Transcorporeality
Decolonial Dance
topic ayahuasca
bailado
choreography
epistemicide
Santo Daime
Santo Daime
Bailado
Ayahuasca
Transcorporeality
Decolonial Dance
description Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion from the Brazilian Amazon, liturgically mobilizes a group dance called the bailado. Emerging in the 1930s from precarious circumstances instigated by rubber boom cycles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Santo Daime has proven resistant against global systems of epistemicide, the systematic killing off of knowledge forms (SANTOS, 2014). I argue the bailado is key to this resistance as corporeal self-knowledge choreographically positioning participants as both audience and performer. In this paper, teachings from Santo Daime hymns and eighteen years of participant observation are drawn upon to support this argument through choreographic analysis.
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