Vestígios do sagrado: uma etnografia sobre formas e silêncios / Vestiges of the sacred: an ethnography of forms and silences

AUTOR(ES)

Ewelter de Siqueira e Rocha

FONTE

IBICT - Instituto Brasileiro de Informação em Ciência e Tecnologia

DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

17/08/2012

RESUMO

This study is an ethnography regarding sacred forms. Our empirical field was the city of Juazeiro do Norte, which is located in the south of Ceará, one of the biggest centers of popular pilgrimage in Brazil, emphasizing the old path that leads to the statue of Padre Cícero called Ladeira do Horto. By means of a theoretical cooperation between the fields of ethnomusicology and visual anthropology, we carried out a reflection on non-narrative processes of enunciation and production of sacred power. The empirical provocation that guides this discussion was identified during our previous research for the masters degree back in 2002. At that time, the point of the study was musical significance, and we realized that some songs of the traditional religious repertoire, considered to be real treasures for the older devotees, were refused by the modern catholics, since they were thought to attract bad things. The old provocation resumed on this doctoral research has shown a wider scope, transcending the sound domain and incorporating now a number of means of expression related to a devotional practice that considers penitence as the main religious rule on the economy of salvation of the souls. This research aims to show how it was possible for these old devotees to preserve their penitential identity without any loss as to the feeling of religious unity with the Catholic Church, whose doctrinaire orientation nowadays reproves the devotional practices based on penitence and mortification of the body. We suggest the existence of an apocryphal penitential doctrine that, in spite of not being mentioned on religious speeches, is present on the musical repertoire of the old benditos, as well as in the home altars and on the corporeal image of the old beatas, instances that create an aesthetic space of plausibility that is able to legitimate the sacred value of penitence and preserve on the devotees the conviction regarding obedience and catholic unity.

ASSUNTO(S)

altares domésticos antropologia visual arte religiosa ethnomusicology etnomusicologia home altars juazeiro do norte juazeiro do norte religious art visual anthropology

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