"Fé, boca calada e pé ligeiro" Nengua Guanguacesse e Terreiro Bate Folha: patrimônio e memórias da religiosidade negroafricana na Bahia

Abstract

This thesis observes, emphasizes and recognizes the incomparable protagonism of Dona Olga Conceição Cruz, Nengua Guanguacesse, matriarch of the Terreiro de in Salvador, Bahia, and a key figure in the process of preserving candomblé practices and traditions of the Congo-Angola nation,. The present work starts from the reports of the community of Bate Folha, through narratives linked to the foundation, initiation, repression and religious ties with the terreiro, therefore, is marked by the crossing of stories related to the centenary of the terreiro. Interdisciplinary in nature, the research establishes a link between past, present and future perspective by safeguarding the material heritage, protected in its physical space, ranging from environmental and cultural preservation, to intangible registration, of continuity of liturgical practices, celebrated for over a hundred years and scheduled in reverence to the Nkisis. Observed under the aspect of religiosity lived in daily life, the research develops dialogue with different areas of knowledge to account for the dense and diversified Afro-Brazilian cultural heritage and its symbolic charge, intercultural communication through methodologies and studies that refer to oral history, interviews, audiovisual, personal archives, photographs and documents that bring to the scene of discussion, life reports, discursive constructions on identity, belonging and network of solidarity, perceived and reworked in the community by the movement of preservation of religious practice.