Vozes que narram e palavras que curam: as rezadeiras e rezadores do sertão do Vale do Sabugi (XX-XXI).

Abstract

This research goes where the sun beats strongest, permeates the spaces, memories, traditions, and rites of sociability of a people who believe in strong religious traditions that resist time. It is the prayers, the healings, the promises, the feasts and the traditions that build this identity, the identity of the Sertão and of the country man who coexists with the hybridism between the people's religious culture, seen as ancient, and the modern universe. In this sense, we propose in this research to problematize the practices of healings enacted by healers and healers in the Vale do Sabugi region of the Sertão of Paraíba between the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st century, investigating their practices based on the dialog between cultural history and social history in order to understand how these healing and prayer rituals from the Sertão manage to maintain rites of sociability and permanence in the face of their coexistence with modernity. For this study, we turn around oral narratives as a research methodology through the narratives of the praying women, prayers, the sick, and the community that narrates about this relationship of praying with its space, dialoguing with the photographic sources that expose the performances and the spaces of prayers enacted by these men and women from the Sertão, along with the contributions of authors such as Canclini (2019), Thompson (1991), Cascudo (2011) and other authors who dialogue with culture and society historiographically.