SYMBOLIC-AFFECTIVE RELATIONSHIPS IN THE TERREIRO DE TORÉ DA BOA VISTA: EXPRESSIONS OF A SACRED PLACE XUKURU DO ORORUBÁ

• Main Author: Vieira, João Luiz da Silva
• Publication Date: 2023
• Other Authors: Rosa, Wedmo Teixeira
• Format: Article
• Language: por
• Source: Revista Geographia (Niterói. Online)
• Download full: https://periodicos.uff.br/geographia/article/view/46620
• topic: Geografia Indígena; Povos Indígenas; Espaço Sagrado; Identidade.; Geografias Indígenas; Indigenous Geography; Indigenous People; Sacred Space; Identity; Geografía Indígena; Identidad; Pueblos Originarios; Espacio Sagrado

The Xukuru of Ororubá people, whose territory is localized in the cities of Pesqueira and Poção-Pe, 215km from the capital of Pernambuco, passed thought centuries of recrimination of their rituals, enduring even the movements of the retaking of lands in the 1990s. After recover the territory, the Xukuru de Ororubá could reestablish their sacred practices freely, without the hassle of intruder farmers in the territory. Thereby, spaces of rituals emerged, or were reactivated, as the Terreiros de Toré. In these sacred spaces, the regulars meet with the enchanted and receive orientations to the daily and spiritual life, which reverberate in the community dynamics. The Terreiro da Mata Sagrada da Boa Vista, reactivated in 2012, is becoming notorious in strengthening ethnicity and traditional sacred practices of the people in question. In the meantime, the research aims to analyze and understand the symbolic-affective relationships between indigenous people and the Terreiro de Toré da Boa Vista. Therefore, the oral history method was used mainly, in order that the indigenous themselves narrate their experiences in the place, and the participant observation, to better understand the relationships between indigenous people and the sacred place. The sacred space of Terreiro da Boa Vista praises the territorial identity of the Xukuru do Ororubá people, as well as your indianity and relationship between the enchanted and nature. It is a space that reflects the territorial dynamics that involve the individuals who experience that place and affirm themselves from them.