Ex-votos acadêmicos da sala de milagres do Senhor do Bomfim de Salvador, Bahia: da documentação à folkcomunicação

Abstract

The research focuses on the analysis of the academic ex-votos “desobrigados” in the Room of Miracle of the Basilica of Our Lord of Bomfim, located in the capital of Bahia, with a time frame of 2021/2022/2023/2024 quadrennium, being the sampling worked, after field collection, by photography, aimed at the photographic category of the hybrid and uniform formats, both consisting of official documents, issued by higher education institutions, and also authorship of the devotees graced by the miracle, in this case with communications through graduation invitation cards. After the researcher’s trajectory had been traced and his choice of the object of study had been justified, procedures were adopted to the phenomenological method, which in this study analyzes the communicative dynamics of the Room of Miracle of the Basilica of Our Lord of Bomfim, Bahia, by observing the ex-votos that have their origin in the academic communicative system, which are influential in the expographic systematization that already borders on the museographic format. The approach to data analysis consists of a qualitative nature, as it proceeds with descriptions of the format and informative content of the medium communicators, including information sheets and inventory, as well as observations on the stages of transformation of the expographic device of the Room of Miracle of Bomfim. For this, the religious context of popular Catholicism is considered, but it also involves the university sphere, seeking to relate the communicative elements and their changes in the respective systems, folk and academic. So the investigation takes place in the surroundings of the objects “desobrigados” in the Room of Miracle of Bomfim, which testify to miracles about the victories of the blessed within the academy, that way the sampling was collected by photographic records, with data noted on cards, to the model of Appendix A, complemented by information about the ritual of “desobriga” and observations of the expography, all inserted in the files of Appendix B. The data on the pieces and the informative content conveyed were treated and classified, generating alphanumeric codes of the Decimal Museal Classification, adapted from a librarianship technique and which is contiguous to Museology. The theoretical basis had the selection of bibliographies in tune with the theme discussed here, in an attempt to establish connections between the communicative phenomenon of the Room of Miracle of Bomfim, through its expography, with the evolution of the Cabinets of Curiosities for Museums, therefore covering literature focused on: communicative systems, folkcommunication, museology and museological exhibition, power relations in museological spaces, ex-votos and the “desobriga” as a religious practice, the culture of the marginalized and the cabinets of curiosities. The proposal to use the information sheets, Table 1 and Table 2, being editions of the document that records the musealized pieces, with the original model in Annex A, allows the organization and custody of information that identifies the ex-votos, given their ephemerality in transit through this space, making it possible to follow the expographic transformations, establishing control by cataloguing and classification, in this case, observing the categorizations and typologies already disseminated by consolidated authors, for its subsequent inventory. So the general objective is to understand the expographic dynamics of the Room of Miracle of Bomfim based on the pieces “desobrigadas”, focusing on academic ex-votos, due to their confluence with communication. Finally, aware that the “desobrigadas” pieces reflect the expressions of communicated realities, unrelated to the appropriate channels by the mass media, their relevance as an inclusive alternative is justified, from the exhibition perspective and which is prevalent in popularly consecrated places.