A Missing Orixá:: Discoveries through a Silent Museum
This article analyzes the Coleção Perseverança, a collection of pieces stolen from some terreiros in a repression episode occurred in 1912, at Maceió. Exposed at the Historical and Geographical Institute of Alagoas, this archive has not been issue of scientific studies ever since. I tried to fill ga...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA) |
| Repositorio: | Afro-Ásia (Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.periodicos.ufba.br:article/42090 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/afroasia/article/view/42090 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Coleção Antropologia Memória Xangô Candomblé Collection Anthropology Memory |
| Sumario: | This article analyzes the Coleção Perseverança, a collection of pieces stolen from some terreiros in a repression episode occurred in 1912, at Maceió. Exposed at the Historical and Geographical Institute of Alagoas, this archive has not been issue of scientific studies ever since. I tried to fill gaps, tracing its path so far, demonstrating the transformations of the xangô alagoano, at the liturgical and ritual levels. Through a construction of an inventory, I investigated their original uses to properly reference the pieces. This quest for the object’s biography was produced with the participation of the Afro-Brazilian religious community in Alagoas and Bahia, focusing on traditional knowledge, mythology and cosmological system. Those object’s biographies also had brought important discoveries, like a divinity completely disappeared from the local Afro-Brazilian pantheon with its liturgical knowledge. It is the orixá Baiani, a rare one, only found in a few houses in Bahia. |
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