Name: MAURILIO MENDONÇA DE AVELLAR GOMES
Publication date: 17/08/2022
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| GABRIELA SANTOS ALVES | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: This research starts from the study of the communication of the body when incorporated by ancestral entities that present themselves in the giras of Umbanda. A body that is territorialized, deterritorialized and reterritorialized at each manifestation, being media so that each entity can communicate. Based on a field research, associated with eight semistructured open interviews, done with men who are umbandistas and carried out during the months of March and May 2022, this dissertation seeks to identify and analyze the communication of the entity pombagira when incorporated into male bodies, during the ancestral performance, for being the entity pointed out by the interviewees as the one that would bring a greater number of elements classified by them as being feminine. But before that, we heard from the interviewees how they perceive and identify the presence of other entities, which helped to find what is stored or registered in them and by them
after different incorporation experiences, through a dialogic, sensorial, and sensitive communication. As not everyone maintains this relationship with the pombagira, the study also points out some of the reasons that hinder or make difficult the communication of this entity in part of the interviewees, considering both their experience and what they bring of knowledge about what it is to be masculine and feminine in our society. This dissertation is based on a look at Ancestry (OLIVEIRA), Communication (DRAVET;
SODRÉ) and the Body, discussing the body in performance (MARTINS); as territory (MIRANDA) and as a crossroads (RAMOS), approaching the paths indicated both by bibliographic references and by the reports of the research participants. The study also dialogues with the sensitive (LE BRETON), with gender issues (LAURETIS; NASCIMENTO; OYĚWÙMÍ), and with Exu, the messenger of the Orixás, the one who dominates communication. It is Exu who guides us along the way, regurgitating the necessary transformation to cleanse the colonial burden (RUFINO) that still surrounds us and drive away once and for all the evil eye that the patriarchy insists on keeping.
Keymords: communication; body; gender; ancestry; pombagira.
