Banca de DEFESA: CRISTHIAN DANY DE LIMA

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : CRISTHIAN DANY DE LIMA
DATE: 10/09/2021
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Banca remota por meio de skype (ou outro meio)
TITLE:

White City, Black Terreiros: black socio-religious territorialities in Uberlândia/MG.

KEY WORDS:

Social Cartography, African-Brazilian Civilizational Continuum, Post-Abolition,
Racial Segregation, Black Terreiros

PAGES: 641
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Sociologia
SUMMARY:

This thesis aims to reflect on the process of spatialization of sacred territories built upon
African-Brazilian Knowledges, Practices and Socio-Religious acting within Uberlândia/MG
municipality. It was carried out the mapping of places of worship self-identified as “Terreiros”,
which has allowed to georeferencing at least three hundred sites of different “ritualistic
nations'': Umbandas, Omolocô, Candomblés Ketu, Angola and Jeje, Ifá, kardecists, and mixed
cult places. The large number of mapped Terreiros has oriented the process of bibliographic
and historical records’ research, leading to the inquiry about the historic configuration of the

urban area. Distinct historic times corresponded to new social and political environments,
adding new othernesses in contact, each one with its peculiar trajectories and territorialities,
whose understanding show to be indispensable to know as much the city’s origin as its current
features. Terreiros’ dynamic of existence and localization have resulted from both structural
racism in action (originated from colony’s socio-territorial technologies, historically updated
by successive laws and regulations about settlements and use of land, real estate speculation,
and urban expansion) and from African-Brazilian values, knowledges, practices and socio_religious
technologies (nature’s centrality, “market” as civilizational value, sacred initiation
dimension, secrecy’s ritual technology, etc.). Terreiros’ invisible presence in urban landscape,
its number and locations can not be fully comprehended if we don’t take into account the
variety of African-Brazilian “Reinados” and territories, in both material and symbolic
dimensions. Set up in seven cartographic products, it reveals a wide presence of Terreiros all
over the city, mainly located along river courses and natural reserves still existing. It also
mapped trade places related to religious congregations (“Povo de Santo”), to sell religious
articles, goods and services. Therefore, despite the strength and endurance of structural
racism and its segregationist effects, the more than three hundred Black Terreiros in
Uberlândia/MG constitute a local expression of vitality and tenacity of African-Brazilian’s
civilizational continuum.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - BEATRIZ RIBEIRO SOARES - UFU
Externo à Instituição - PABLO LUIZ DE OLIVEIRA LIMA - UFMG
Interna - 1146432 - CARMEN SILVIA ANDRIOLLI
Interna - 1923291 - DEBORA FRANCO LERRER
Presidente - 387276 - ELI DE FATIMA NAPOLEAO DE LIMA