Sacerdotisa em Laranjeiras/SE : trajetória e recursos na ocupação de um espaço de poder e dominação

• Autor(a) principal: Cruz, Eval
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFS
• Texto Completo: https://ri.ufs.br/handle/riufs/3181
• topic: Alôxa; Recursos; Trajetória; Priestess; Resources; Trajectory; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::ANTROPOLOGIA

This work analyzes the trajectory and the resources provided by the current "Alôxa" of the "Irmandade Santa Bárbara Virgem" in the city of Laranjeiras, in Sergipe, for the occupation of an space of power. The study discusses the conditions for the formation of this agent as a priestess, from the perspective of Bourdieu's analysis. Thus, in addition to review of the historical context that led to the setting of Laranjeiras as a privileged space for the development of a religious field of African s descent, we evaluate the symbolic capital, the social capital and the school capital used by the agent. For this purpose, a literature review is used as soon as main expedients: ethnographic research, the construction of a diary, the application of a structured interview and some "informal conversations" with participants in the "Irmandade". If, on the one hand, it is clear that, according to the logic of the house of worship, a priestess is chosen by "the desire of the orixás", on the other hand, it appears that the scope of the control group occurs after a period of dispute with other agents. Moreover, it is observed that the preparation of "Alôxa" is articulated to a long process of learning the functions of leadership, a legacy established by living with her mother, also a "priestess", and the incorporation of a religious capital from the participation in cults and festivals.