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By means of ethnographic fieldwork in Berlin and Reconcavo da Bahia, my Ph.D. research sought to disclose transcultural and subjective processes involved in the embodiment of the Afro-Brazilian religion of Candomble, having my own body as a point of departure. This article presents some results regarding the transmission of ritual songs and dances at “Ile Oba Sileke”, Germany’s only house for the practice of Candomble. Despite the distance from the original cultural context, the priest and further masters emphasize the value of learning through practice. In other words, through body engagement instead of verbal communication and instruction. This implies mimetic processes envolving the whole subjective dimension of learning and hence of the sensible knowledge acquired. In Candomble transmission, I argue, it is neither technical precision nor intelectual and semantic understanding of the songs and gestures that have primacy, but rather the conveyance of their “emotional essence” (Merleau-Ponty 1945): the bodily experience of sharing this very essence with the community, as well as with the gods, the  orixas .

Singing by and with heart: embodying Candomblé’s sensible knowledge through songs and dances in Berlin