Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: MATEUS WAIMER

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
DISCENTE : MATEUS WAIMER
DATA : 31/07/2019
HORA: 15:00
LOCAL: PPGCS
TÍTULO:

The "Order of Souls"

PALAVRAS-CHAVES:

Order of souls; ritual; performance

PÁGINAS: 40
GRANDE ÁREA: Ciências Humanas
ÁREA: Antropologia
RESUMO:

The "Order of Souls" is a tradition of Portuguese origin spread in various parts of Brazil, under different denominations. Carried out, in general, during Holy Week, it congregates ritual practices of prayer, intonation of litanies, lamentable songs and prayers that seek to intercede for souls. In Oriximiná, northwest of Pará, nine groups composed of specialists in recommend souls work in the urban and rural areas of the municipality. Among them, the group "Santas Missões" was delimited as an empirical object of this ethnography. Accompanying them in different moments and contexts - before, during and after of rituals -, interacting and dialoguing with his members - including in the context of interviews - we inquire what is the motivation of the ritual and what responds by its continuity today. We hypothesize that, basically, the ritual assembly fulfills functions along two classes of distinct beings: the souls (of the dead) and the living.These, in turn, are divided into two groups: those who request / receive the ritual and the ordering of souls themselves, who execute it. In the native discourses, the religious categories of heaven, hell and purgatory are recurrent to justify the recommendation of souls and to articulate symbols and notions of the sacred, in order to effect effects on the state of souls. In the ritualistic acts that bring executors and spectators closer together, performances are in themselves objects that merit investigative attention. They are significant and affect the living by changing their own state. In the biographical accounts of the ordering of souls, the beliefs and knowledge that lead them to enter and / or continue in the group to perform the ritual as a kind of obligation emerge. In short, the research documents a ritual practice based on traditional knowledge about the world of the dead, but which produces effects in the world of the living, revealing ways of being, existing and thinking the phenomenon of life.

MEMBROS DA BANCA:
Presidente - 1446230 - LUCIANA GONCALVES DE CARVALHO
Externo ao Programa - 2993287 - MIGUEL APARICIO SUAREZ
Externo ao Programa - 1299911 - FLORENCIO ALMEIDA VAZ FILHO