Filhos-de-santo, história e candomblé: narrativa e experiência do xangô em Alagoas.

Abstract

Through of the narratives capsules, a line of the autonomous oral history, This research aimed to develop readings and reflections that narrate aspects of the xangô of the Alagoas. Parte of the principle the spontaneity of the respondents, who have the freedom to build their narrative without the intervention of a researcher who could ask questions of self-interest. Here, the researcher at the time of interview, is placed as a spectator. The freedom of talks of the interviewee makes him the protagonist of the research and thencefroth, it woven all the research. The storytellers, discusses relevant topics such as society of the 1960s, the Break 1912 in the capital of Alagoas and its centenary in 2012. Also addresses particular issues of each narrator, like the family, studies and admission to the candomble, forming a web of relationships and sometimes contradictions between them. Awakens to the self esteem of the children of saint which is being built in a slow, ongoing process. The registered narratives not part of the annex of this research, quite the contrary, make up the body of the work as a base text giving even more emphasis to talks of its protagonists.