Girando em uma roça banto: a dança como elemento constitutivo do candomblé angola em Montes Claros/MG

• Autor(a) principal: Cardoso, Fernanda de Souza
• Data de Publicação: 2016
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/19089
• topic: Corpo; Dança; Candomblé Angola; Body; Dance; Candomblé Angola; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::SOCIOLOGIA::OUTRAS SOCIOLOGIAS ESPECIFICAS

The present research has worked the dance as an expressive and symbolic manifestation present in candomblé religion, specifically in the angola’s candomblé, in the context of Montes Claros, north of Minas Gerais. It has started from the hypothesis that the dance is not an accessory, but on the contrary, it is an indispensable element in the referred religious rituals. The research held up in the proposed understanding of dance as a constitutive element of this religious system of their essentiality to the candomblé is done, is established. The issues that guided the research is expressed in the following questions: what is dance for the candomble religion? What is its role? How does it appear in the candomblé rituals angola? The methodology, inspired by own methods to Social Sciences, included the immersion in the candomblé angola universe. The contact with the object, in this case the yards of candomblé "Roça Congo Matamba Nzambi," the city of Montes Claros, between the years 2013 and 2016, allowing collect information of the subjects to identify the dynamics of the plantations’s operation and monitoring by participant’s observation, some public parties that are part of the annual calendar of events of that house. Beyond the observation, semi-structured interviews were performed, applied to six saint-children. The collected data were analyzed based on the theoretical references that guided this research. The study concluded that through this body moving experience, feelings are provoked, colors, gestures and sounds emerge; and promote celebration, corporification, offering. The initiates conceive that the dance allows the divine and honorable presence of inquices together to theirs. The presence of such rituals in candomble appears therefore amalgamated thereto, not being dispensed, on the contrary, intensifies the time to every new touch the atabaque and the presence of outstanding and interdependent song. The danceable subjects are known and recognized by the experience that is both: individual and collective, singular and plural; that is, even if it is experienced in particular ways for each one/ that is part of the house, it still collective, it seeks to add, celebrates the communion of saint-children more than "dance well" they seek to connect with what they believe