Apurando os sentidos: sonoridades, performance e imagens nos rituais de Umbanda em Corumbá

• Autor(a) principal: Rocha, Carmem Silvia Moretzsohn
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/8353
• topic: Anthropology; Ethnomusicology; Umbanda; African-brazilian religions; Anthropology of performance; Antropologia; Etnomusicologia; Umbanda; Religiões afro-brasileiras; Antropologia da performance; Umbanda - Corumbá (MS); Cultos afro-brasileiros; Etnomusicologia - Corumbá (MS); CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::ANTROPOLOGIA

The main objective of this work is to investigate the native point of view of the concept of sonority that is within the rituals of Umbanda in Corumbá, a city located in the State of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazilian Midwest, underexplored in the literature on the subject. To conduct this research it was used Seeger s concept, in which one must observe the entire context wherein the musical manifestation occurs, in other words, the "music as total social fact", in order to more deeply understand their meanings. Participant observation was the methodology and also in-depth interviews with some of the major characters within the context umbandista site. The field was also recorded through photographs, videos and audio recordings in order to enable the establishment of a collection, and also facilitate the transcription and analysis of the material collected and perhaps, allow developments of this work. As a conclusion, was found that its raw material, the sound frequencies, represent an ideal instrument for Umbanda, for the following reasons: first, the sounds, for its ethereal nature, may, like the orishas and spiritual entities constitute vibrations invisible to laymen, but not of the faithful, that penetrate bodies and can be seen in the spiritual world as in the physical world, and secondly, due to the first aspect, it is a perfect medium for the communication of both starting spiritual world toward its adherents as vice versa. It is through curimbas or points that the orishas sing their dijinas, in other words, their names, making continuity of an ancestral tradition. The pulse promoted by sound vibrations brings all the cosmological symbolism present in Umbanda, coated by a complex and beautiful universe of narratives, clothing, colors, smells, choreography, affections, intentions, accomplishments and claims identity component of the rituals experienced. Another conclusion was what umbandistas of Tenda Nossa Senhora da Guia, the main study group, mean by sounding a "total social fact", classic concept coined by Mauss. Strategically and blurring the boundaries between strength and communion with the larger community in which it operates in the city, the Tent deepens every day its roots, nailed by Theodora Maria Paula Gonçalves in the 1920s, still a slave. Although officially has elapsed in 1888, slavery remained in the corners of the country that resisted the social, economic and political changes occurring in the country. The Tent today is an institution which provides important symbolic exchanges, economic, political, social, cultural and spiritual, from a territory recognized by Quilombo Palmares Foundation and the religious sphere by the Federation of Afro-Brazilian cults and American Indians of Mato Grosso do Sul (FECAMS)