Mandingando na academia: entre itãs e sabenças vivas - o que o terreiro tem a nos dizer?

Abstract

This course conclusion work aims to analyze what Afropindoramic religions have to present to us in terms of understanding the subject, identifying the ancestral wisdom of terreiro through itãs and living wisdoms and other ontological understandings. The work brings the black narratives involved as a possibility of intertwining discussions between itãs and living knowledge, establishing an ethical-political positioning for the research, taking into account the erasure and silencing of black and indigenous epistemologies, fruits of structural racism and epistemicide. Walking along the rivers of academia and the Ilês, I defend the resumption of ancestral knowledge from the terreiros as a tool and/or mechanism for understanding the world and subject as a policy against racism and systemic epistemicide that plague colonial-capitalist society, as well as its implications. in academic curricula. It is through these rivers that the work passes through, in a narrative that has 10 sessions, each of them enunciating an Itã and bringing other possibilities of thinking about the subject beyond the modern/western perspective. This work, therefore, invites us to reflect on the need for ethical and political commitment to an essentially anti-racist training, as well as rethinking our practices as psychology professionals.