Encruzilhadas epistemológicas : um relato etnográfico com matriz afro referenciada no Terreiro Pai Oxossi, em Maceió (AL)

Abstract

The present work aims to describe and analyze processes of displacement, production of identities and the search for an African tradition that has occurred in the candomblé of the Ketu nation in Maceió (AL), concerned with understanding such processes since the constitution of religion in the municipality, which is crossed by numerous cases of political-religious persecution. To this end, through an ethnographic report carried out in a candomblé in a neighborhood near Lagoa Mundaú, as well as bringing the author's experiences escrevividas (neologism that is compounded by"escrita"(writing)and"vivência" (experience)) as relevant data for the study, it was possible to observe that it is from the identity boundaries triggered by communities of African origin that the processes of identity re-elaboration are build, as well as the changes in ritual and political relations, boosting alterity processes regulated by the studied groups.