Mulheres do partido alto - elegância, fé e poder: um estudo de caso da Irmandade de Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2004

RESUMO

This work is a research on the Sisterhood of our Lady of Good Death (Irmandade de Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte), an organization created in the end of the 18th century by black women who came with the African diaspora. Its foundation happened in the city of Salvador, in the Barroquinha district and was later transferred to the county of Cachoeira, a large fertil area in Bahia. There is, in this case, a characteristic that distinguishes this sisterhood from other existing black fraternities in Brazil - the exclusivity of gender. The techniques used in the research, besides that of participating observation, also included semi-structured interviews, due to the understanding that this technique contemplates the form of conceiving and interpreting the world view shared by the members of the Sisterhood, which is both individual and collective, forming in such a way, the identity of the group. The interpretation of data takes as reference notions of memory proposed by Halbwachs and Pollak and other authors as Renato da Silveira, João Reis, Josildeth Consorte and Teresinha Bernardo were also consulted. The constitution of a space formed only by women - as it happens in the Sisterhood of Good Death, triggers mechanisms that diverge from models of fraternities of which we have knowledge. In the latter, the roles played by women, in spite of their importance in guaranteeing the success of the organization, were little visible. This work contributes to the discussions on the participation of women in religious groups in Brazil, as it attempts to analyse the performance of women in the black fraternities in the context of the Colonial Period. Because of its singularity among the mixed fraternities, the conclusions demonstrate that the results obtained by Good Death constitute an incommensurable effort towards guaranteeing, by means of Catholic cults, the preservation of one of the most significant traces of the African culture: the cultivation of death, making the continuation of life possible, through ancestry

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ancestors irmandade candomblé fraternity candomblé ancestrais irmandade negra catholicism morte negras life memória católico vida death black women mulheres continuidade ciencias sociais aplicadas continuity memory women irmandades -- bahia, ba

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