Banca de DEFESA: ÁDRIA FABÍOLA PINHEIRO DE SOUSA

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STUDENT : ÁDRIA FABÍOLA PINHEIRO DE SOUSA
DATE: 05/08/2025
TIME: 09:00
LOCAL: Google meet
TITLE:

THE TERRITORIALIZATION OF THE TAMBOR DE MINA THROUGH THE LEGACY OF THE MOTHERS OF SAINTS

KEY WORDS:

Mine Drum; Aphrodiaspora; Amazon.

PAGES: 200
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Geografia
SUMMARY:

Brazil is a cradle of countless religions, whether Christian or non-Christian. Especially in the Amazon, several religions of African origin are concentrated, among them, Tambor de Mina. This Thesis investigates the process of territorialization of Tambor de Mina in the Amazon, through the legacy of mothers of saints, taking as a spatial focus four cities in the Northern Region of Brazil: Belem, Porto Velho, Monte Alegre, Alenquer and Santarem. In the field of Afro-Brazilian religions, we have a vast literature on the Tambor de Mina in Maranhao, especially by the research couple Maria Mundicarmo Ferretti and Sergio Ferretti, however, there is little record of this religion in the North of the country. It is also recorded in the literature that Tambor de Mina was founded, in Brazil, by women, mothers of saints, coming from the African Continent, thus justifying one of the great pillars of this thesis, which is understanding the legacy and contribution of women mothers of saints for the constitution of this religion, how it was carried out and how religious practices currently operate in the North Region and the Brazilian Amazon. For this investigation, we will use the geographic category Place to understand the construction of territorialities referring to the religious practice of Tambor de Mina in the Brazilian Amazon. This identification is marked by the Afro-Amazonian diaspora, from the region of Benin, former Kingdom of Dahomey, in Africa, which is territorialized in Maranhao - the first birthplace of Tambor de Mina in Brazil - and re-territorialized in Para, expanding to several cities of the Brazilian Amazon. It is the place category that leads us to understand how the conquest of these sacred territories happened and how religious practices were reorganized in terms of relationships with space, detailing the specificities of these practices in each terreiro/casa de santo in the cities where we researched. To construct this thesis, we relied on the thoughts of Merleau-Ponty (1999) to understand which phenomenological theory we follow; to the geographers Bachelard (1996), Dardel (2011), Tuan (2013), to the anti-colonial, progressive and anti-racist thoughts of Cardoso (2014), Akotinene (2019), Amador (2012), Gonzales (2020), Ratts (2019, 2020 ), Nascimento (2016), Hall (2003), and research relating to the Tambor de Mina religion (Ferreti (2009), Prandi (1997, 2005, 2011), Vergolino (2020), Tavernard (2017), among others.

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Presidente - 396900 - JOSUE DA COSTA SILVA
Externa à Instituição - MARIA SALOMÉ LOPES FREDRICH - UFPB
Interno - ***.978.969-** - NILSON CESAR FRAGA - UFPR
Externo à Instituição - REGINALDO CONCEICAO DA SILVA
Externo à Instituição - WALLACE WAGNER RODRIGUES PANTOJA - IFPA