O candomblé no Amapá: história, memória, imigração e hibridismo cultural

Abstract

Using as sources the oral memory, documents, prints and vídeo images, the present study deals with the relations that are established among the practices of Candomblé, Umbanda, “Mina” and Cure, in “terreiros” from Macapá, state of amapá. Since the 40’s of the last century the Afro-Brazilian religions have been settling in the region, brought by immigrants from other states of the Brazilian Federation, and in this process they have been touching, interacting and mixing to each other. The Candomblé though recent, from the 80’s of the 20th century, acquired a great visibility and has been increasing a lot the number of adhesions to this religion of followers from other Afro-Brazilian religions, in virtue of the expectations and conceptions of superiority that were created about it. Therefore to attend it’s necessities and demands of the clientele “fathers and mothers of saint” make use of practices of many Afro-religions denominations. This way, the Candomblé’s rituals show up as one more add, an extra element in the amount of religious knowledge acquired along the life an in the religious life of priests, who are responsible for the “terreiros” from Macapá. Like that this study contributed to rethink the importance of the studies that involve the cultural immigration phenomena, with the installing of a new cultural system in a society in expansion, the changes that it provokes in the cultural scene that is inserted an in the cultural system in question.