Open AccessSymbolic territorialities in a terreiro de candomblé: the morphology of a sacred space
Author(s) -
Maglandyo da Silva Santos,
Otávio José Lemos Costa
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
terr@ plural
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1982-095X
pISSN - 1981-6537
DOI - 10.5212/terraplural.v.16.2217265.002
Subject(s) - territoriality , ethnography , the symbolic , perspective (graphical) , field (mathematics) , sociology , identity (music) , space (punctuation) , extension (predicate logic) , anthropology , mythology , aesthetics , epistemology , geography , art , communication , linguistics , pure mathematics , philosophy , psychology , visual arts , mathematics , psychoanalysis , computer science , literature , programming language
This work highlights the symbolic territorialities of a ‘terreiro de candomblé’ with fluid spatial dimensions, located in the city of Cajazeiras, Paraíba. The experiences are based on the ethnographic field research conducted between January and April. We outline the morphology of the sacred space represented by geosymbols and their meanings, which refer to the mythology of the African òrìṣà, rescued in the ‘terreiro’. We also describe, from the perspective of Costa’s micro-territoriality (2017), geosymbols outside the ‘terreiro’, eventually accessed by ritual occasion, revealing a symbolic extension of the territory that transgresses previously constructed determinations and constructs new identity spaces