A indumentária da maruja como " tela de representação" na devoção da Beneditina em Bragança - PA

Abstract

This article is part of a research developed for a Master’s degree dissertation in the Linguagens e Saberes na Amazônia Post-Graduation Program (PPLSA-UFPA), and it has as its theme a contextualization of the concept of “canvas of representation” proposed by Hall (2003). This concept crosses the use, by the black culture, of the body as a cultural capital due to the impossibility of other expressive resources in the slavery system and in the Eurocentric domination during the diaspora. We understand the figure of the maruja in Bragança-PA, which results from a devotion founded in the city by black enslaved people in the end of the XVIII century and marked by power tensions, as a canvas of representation. Thus, the maruja attire articulates African repertoires with Catholic elements, communicates identities, embodies the faith in Saint Benedict and delimits spaces on the context of the Black Saint festivity.