“Kalunga guarda muito de nossa memória” semânticas transculturais de Kalunga em contexto diaspórico

Abstract

This dissertation seeks to develop an investigation about the procedures of cross-cultural trans-lation through an analysis of the values and operational meanings of the term proto-bantu Ka-lunga, therefore, it seeks to organize the writing and interpretation of data through a multidis-ciplinary approach in which it positions in instrumental-analytical parity the disciplinary fields related to history, linguistics, philosophy and anthropology. The research revolves around two main referring discursive supports, respectively: i. the construction and mobilization of the epis-temologies of the south axis, decentralized from the geopolitical center of the elaboration of knowledge, linked to western ideologies which integrate and determine human hierarchies; and ii. the invocation of the constitutional degrees of African and black diasporic ontologies. Based on these two pillars, a writing structure is proposed that proposes a critical scheme of African proposals for the resumption of autonomy in the face of modes of identity recognition and sci-entific production itself, for this purpose, it outlines a description of African subjectivities and theoretical uses and policies of the inherent racial categories, seeking to sew meanings about ancestry; diaspora; border; crossroads; transculturality; subjectivity; and collectivity. The meth-odology outlined consists of the systematization of two axes corresponding to the African reg-istration of the word Kalunga and its defined meanings; and the Afro-Brazilian, diasporic record of the referent term, the central issue of this dissertation, also seeking to systematize its modes of use and meanings. Once this stage is concluded, a mosaic analysis of the concept is sought, using, in a comparative way, a rescue and a crossing of the data results of the two blocks, this methodological proposal is supported by the theoretical reference tool composed by the cross-roads concept, allowing a observation that incites and instrumentalizes the interpretation of the sources in order to incline the scientificity of the investigation through African and non-tradi-tional lenses. The results and conclusions or final considerations of the study will still be in-cluded in this initial summary.