A bênção aos mais velhos: poder e senioridade nos terreiros de candomblé

• Autor(a) principal: Eugênio, Rodnei William
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da PUC_SP
• Texto Completo: https://tede2.pucsp.br/handle/handle/12400
• topic: Velhice; Envelhecimento; Candomblé; Senioridade; Hierarquia; Poder; Mais velhos; Tradição; Cultura negra; Aging; Candomblé; Seniority; Hierarchy; Power; Older; Tradition; Black culture; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

This study of old age and aging in the shrines of Candomblé is an attempt to share experiences and seek knowledge. The major purpose is to preserve the heritage conventionally transmitted by orality. Entering in the webs of hierarchies of the shrines, attempts to verify powerful relations and how the "older" integrate these communities. Considering that old age is a legitimate social category and based on an interdisciplinary approach, seeking to know how the cultural construction of this category in Candomblé is given - a religion based on principles of seniority and ancestry, which values the experience and knowledge of "older". The main question is: what aging means in Candomblé? To answer, we check how people represent old age inside the shrines, as well as the way to build and experience the category of "older". This paper tries to approach the old age under an optical interpretation, pointing to a distinct form of aging for a specific group with unique characteristics. In Candomblé, old age is always an ideal to be achieved, is a source of authority and shows the power that covers the top levels of its hierarchy. By studying the importance of "older" in Candomblé, this work shows that the African worldview is preserved in the shrines, revealing the specificities of a people and its culture