Cultural practices

infomemories and knowledge in Candomblé

Abstract

Objective: The cultural practices in the socialization of ancestral knowledge in the Candomblé terreiros, called Hungbê by its practitioners, translated into Portuguese - àṣẹ education -, erase the abyssal lines of hegemonic Cartesian thought in modernity. The present research based on the post-abyssal and decolonizing perspective of this thought in postmodernity aims to identify the infomemorial process and the multiplicity of specific knowledge in Candomblé present in the cultural practices of its daily life.
Methodology: With a qualitative approach, the methodology used was participant observation, through informal conversations and semi-structured interviews with parents/mothers of saints and an Èkéjì, nation of Angola and Ketu, who served as sources of information.
Results: The result presented reveals that, through Hungbê, the ancestral knowledge in Candomblé, permeated by singularities and its own characteristics, presents the following particularities: it occurs in a religious environment, in everyday life, it does not present a methodology and all learning takes place through the pedagogy of sacred ritual in terreiro spaces.
Conclusions: It is concluded that, focusing on the liturgy of the Candomblé cult, in the infomemorial process of knowledge in cultural practices in terreiro spaces, children, adolescents and adults learn, in a ritualistic and celebratory way, cultural religious knowledge, safeguarded from generation to generation.