A encruzilhada de Zé Pelintra com três Mestres-Salas paraenses: por uma ancestralidade artística

Abstract

This research deals with the poetic establishment of the notion of Ancestralidade Artística based on the crossed dimensions between Zé Pelintra – the great streetwise ancestor of Umbanda – and the Mestre-sala, an emblematic artist of the Brazilian carnival of the samba school, in the mythical, sacred and artistic relationship of the ancestral spectacularity of samba. It is a crossroads-research of Afrocentric epistemological construction and decolonial guerrilla that proposes deconstructions of framed and hierarchical perspectives established to the body. Exu is the great epistemological ancestor, a transgressive and moving force, the crossroads as a motive power for the crossings and the streetwiseness as a philosophy and poetics of the researched streetwise-men. Zé Pelintra and Mestre-sala are enchanted bodies, men of the street, from the terreiro and samba, so called by the observation of the diverse and deep relationships of these spaces-territories in their poetics. The research presents its own iconography, with specific symbols and meanings linked to the fundamentals of Umbanda's Sacred Writing, the riscado signs, and the danced riscado of the mestres-salas Nando Elegância, Bené Brito and Fábio de Cássio, three “entities”, black, afro-religious, famous masters of the carnival of Pará, subjects protagonists of the research that evidence the spectacularity of the riscado in the Amazon. The Ethno-Crossed-Methodology is an authorial creation of the research, based on the process of sensitive listening to the phenomenon, supported by Ethnocenology as the main theoretical-methodological basis and by the ancestral immersions and artistic creations of the exuistic researcher as a woman, mother-artist-flag bearer.