Mari Errê Arrá: manifestações religiosas afro-brasileiras e a simbologia poética de afirmação do ser negro.

Abstract

Every text should be a kind of conversation (poetic or not) between the writer and the subject who is willing to read it. This text is woven conversation-poetics - post-research of an ethnographic field - of rites, chants, drummings and bodies that dance to the Afro-Brazilian rhythm of Marierrê, cultural religious manifestation of the black people living in the village of Carapajó, municipality of Cametá, region of Baixo-Tocantins- Pa, bodies that, in the morbid exercise of their religiosity and culture, produce a unique symbology, rich in subjectivity, tenderness, communion, beauty and content of ethnic and community affirmation , as the opposite pole of a prejudiced, stigmatizing, racist society that seeks to homogenize, in Brazil, all that is cultural, religious and ethnic through the white and Christian Eurocentric prism. The main purpose is to show how The Marierrê and its symbolic, ritualistic and poetic language became between-morbid place of affirmation of black men and women, in Carapajó, Cametá-Pa. Therefore, the problem around which this text walks is to answer the following question: how did black subjects overcome stigmas, prejudices and began to carve out for themselves an affirmative existence, from the Marierrê ritual? The objectives that guided our research helped us to have a better defined view of our object, such as: to describe oral, gestural, symbolic/poetic musical languages that are developed during the Marierrê ritual, in the sense of a new way of being quilombola black; to reveal what is symbolic, poetic and political in the Afro-religious cultural rite Marierrê, as well as this rite manifests itself in the sense of the social affirmation of the Quilombola people; to base our understanding on the theories behind racism in the world and in Brazil, to fine tune our poetic conversation in order to deconstruct scientific, hegemonic and ethnocentric discourse on human races/ethnicities, which gave rise to racism, especially against black people, and the myth of the superiority of the white people, understand how Marierrê reflects the empowerment of black communities in a ritual that reflects the beauty, intelligence, courage and importance of Afro-Brazilian men and women for the history of social, cultural and religious resistance of this country. To this end, the path taken was that of ethnography, in the bulge from which we were to glimpse, hear, feel – in the rite, in the singing, in the dance, in the playing of the instruments – the happening of the quilombola poetics, the symbology of marierrê and how they produce affirmation of new black men and women. In the field of research, in the name of the finest ethnography and the construction of the most plausible rhizome, we allow ourselves to (re)contaminate ourselves by songs, rhythms, dances and rites that re-praise the most sacred in life: the liberation of the currents of non-being and the affirmation of the human being. The analyses performed are of the historical and dialectical type, which seek to see the root and importance of this Afro-cultural-religious manifestation for the affirmation of the new black being in the quilombola community of Carapajó, in the context of memory, ancestry, resistance, the affirmation of Afro-Brazilian history and culture, previously suffocated by the action of the state. Important theorists of ethnic-racial relations contributed to this conversation, such as Todorov (1993), Skidmore (1976), Neuza Santos (1983), Frantz Fanon (2008) and Paul Gilroy (2001); celebrated authors of Black Literature and the poetic field such as Sergio Alberto Alves (2008), Edison Carneiro (1964), Castro Alves and Ana Maria Gonçalves (2006); and as a theoretical-methodological contribution, we anchored ourselves in Camarrof (2010) and Angrosino (2009); authors who guided us along the paths of ethnography. It was found that the Marierrê, in the observed quilombola community, produces a poetics that subverts racist ideologies, religious rites and conceptions about the black being that can reverberate from there and resonate in today's society, in a strategy of resistance and affirmation in which intelligence is the central symbol.