Os afrorreligiosos e suas fotografias: memórias, sociabilidades e atualizações em terreiros de Porto Alegre e Pelotas - RS.

Abstract

This investigation seeks to understand the updates in the contemporary religious afro-gaúchas culture by triggering the memories of some Babalorixás / Yalorixás / Caciques, from Porto Alegre and Pelotas, from photographic images of their personal collections. Using a theoretical-methodological approach centered on Cultural History, with the anthropological concept of culture as an important axis, we seek to identify possible resignifications in sociability and religious practices itself. These updates on the ways of being and living religious afro-brasileiras experiences are considered based on moving temporal beacons. The analysis relies both on the perceptions of the religious themselves about their photos, as well as on a categorization of the collection, consisting of amateur analog photographs taken at public parties of the three strands of religions afro-gaúchas: Batuque, Umbanda and Quimbanda.