Open AccessWith Dance and Drum. A Psychocultural Investigation of the Ritual Meaning-Making System of an Afro-Brazilian, Macumba Community in Salvador, Brazil
Author(s) -
Valerie DeMarinis
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
scripta instituti donneriani aboensis
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2343-4937
pISSN - 0582-3226
DOI - 10.30674/scripta.67223
Subject(s) - dance , meaning (existential) , psychosocial , context (archaeology) , sociology , function (biology) , aesthetics , drum , psychology , visual arts , art , history , psychotherapist , archaeology , evolutionary biology , biology
This paper focuses on the Macumba community's way of making meaning in its Afro-Brazilian cultural context. The community's meaning-making system is analyzed through five central points relating psychosocial function to religious ritual experience. In this Macumba community context ritual, through dance and drum, serves as the basic multi-dimensional vehicle for psychosocial and spiritual development in the community.