“Vadeia, dois-dois, vadeia” no Caruru do Lindroamor Axé em São Francisco do Conde/Ba: o espiral do tempo das corp(oralidades) firmam um lazer e educação descolonial

Abstract

This thesis brought into circulation the cultural manifestation of Caruru do Lindroamor Axé in São Francisco do Conde, Bahia, a celebration of Saint Cosme and Damião, the joy and wisdom of children. In the details of samba de roda, play, and faith, the processes involved in making the festival are rooted in Terreiro Angurusena Dya N’Zambi and extend into the streets to celebrate with the entire Franciscan community in Largo da Cubamba on September 27, the day of dois-dois. The festival prompted us to circulate between the dimensions of the body, ancestry, and memory, as well as to cast our gaze upon the fields of education and leisure in these writings, in order to expand the grammar for the processes that are made and expressed through the body in motion, thus establishing intersections between the fields. In this sense, we aim to understand how the practices, play, and rituals of Caruru do Lindroamor Axé pave the way for fostering the construction of a decolonial education and leisure, as well as, through immersion movements, provoke reflections from the corpo(oralities) that inhabit childhood, asserting their dribbles and fissures against colonialism, and also their narratives of constructing other possible worlds. Methodologically, we followed an ethnographic understanding and cambonagem, in the movement of immersing ourselves in practice, and thus, we composed these movements through audio recordings of conversations, field notes, photographic records, and bibliographic review. Thus, we affirm that Caruru expresses itself as a festive temporality-territoriality based on an understanding of the world that encompasses leisure in the dimension of culture and the sacred, as well as an ancestral epistemology that produces teachings and learning through the body, a decolonial education. Furthermore, the corpo(oralities) of Caruru do Lindroamor Axé reveal the state of childhood inhabited and lived in community, amalgamated with an understanding of life that is constituted in circularity, it is spiraling. Salve Cosme and Damião. Long live the children. Vadeia, Dois-Dois, Vadeia.