O corpo na roda: identidades femininas, (re)existência e potencialidades em rodas de samba de salvador/ba.

Abstract

he present research aims to propose a reflection on the samba circle. In Salvador there are movements of black women who associate and create groups of Roda de Samba. We propose to investigate which forms and through which paths the samba circle provides a dynamic that mediates the potentialities of black women's existence in contemporary society. I interpret the circle as a process of transmitting knowledge, knowledge and forms of sociability where, through an intergenerational dialogue, younger women learn from older women. Throughout the research, we used procedures that dialogue with different types of research, configuring a bricolage, a work done in an artisanal way, a weaving of seams between different parts "DENZIN and LINCOLN (2006)". Here we are interested in knowing how some women experience and express the samba circle, which motivates them to integrate these spaces and keep alive a popular and ancestral culture, resisting the ostensible appeals of mass culture. For the construction of the knowledge presented here, I am guided by theorists from different epistemological areas, such as Anthropology, with Lélia Gonzalez and Osmundo Pinho; Communication, with Ceiça Ferreira; Dance with Clécia Queiroz, Fernando Ferraz and Inaicyra Falcão; Education, with Dante Galeffi; Philosophy, Achille Mbembe, Frantz Fanon, MerleauPonty and Sueli Carneiro; History, with Beatriz Nascimento, Maria Antonacci, and Pierre Nora; Literature, Conceição Evaristo, Édouard Glissant, Eno Belinga, Esiaba Irobi, Homi K. Bhabha and Vilma Piedade; Performance, with Leda Maria Martins; Psychology, with Jurandir Costa, Neuza Santos Souza and Isildinha Nogueira; and Sociology, with Muniz Sodré, Paul Gilroy, and Stuart Hall.