Resistência e preservação da cultura afro-brasileira em um terreiro de umbanda/candomblé de matriz africana: conflitos e apropriações na grande noite de Yemanjá

Abstract

The objective of this work: "Research Project" directed to the CBT is to identify with the theme, within cultural and related concepts in the context: "Society, History and Culture" thematic located and practiced by the community of Umbanda / Candomblé which has presentation as: Matrix African Umbanda, Candomblé Nation crossed with Angola and Ketu. We are referring to a saint house or yard as an object of study in search of culture, preservation and resistance in their feasts, focusing on the roots of African culture, as a ransom memory, the religious denominations and their similarities with other cults of African origin. Also following the same focus on the african-Brazilian culture we relate to the introduction of tributes Orisha Yemanja made during a time of festivities and collective nature of the religious community of Candomblé and Umbanda on Copacabana beach and as part of an ebb and flow religious extramural supported the change to the state constitution and the secular decline of the same due to blurring because of other festivals based on tourism and the New Year's Eve. Within this course will include historical characters and memory were the initiators of this cultural focus of resistance and cultural preservation in a period that the speeches of previous decades had changed and began to proclaim a national identity. The work is being guided by a theoretical based on the works: "Epistemologies of the South" written by Boaventura de Souza Santos and Maria Paula Menezes (organizers), "Decoloniality bodies and knowledge: essay on Diaspora Eurocentric " Marie Antoinette Antonacci - PUC - SP. We intend this work to demonstrate the roots of African culture which included other cultures: Amerindian and Portuguese have a cultural identity preservation and resistance collaborating on national identity and regarding the development of this religious culture african yard. We forth the philosophy and Yoruba mythology and its myths and how they confuse on similarities in certain fundamental respects with the Greco-Roman mythology