Ê La, mano! “A Barca já está tomada” a vida social de um marujo em um candomblé do sertão baiano

Abstract

The aim of this study is to analyze the daily relationships and coexistence between the “Povo de Dola” community (Vitória da Conquista, Bahia) and spiritual entities, especially Maria Padilha, the Erês and a Marujo, both in the context of the family dynamics of Vó Dola's descendants and in the religious experiences of the Terreiro de Xangô, a candomblé Nação Angola of local tradition. Revered in various branches of Afro-Brazilian religions, “water” beings known as Marinheiros, Pescador, Capitão and Marujos are present in most terreiros in the Vitória da Conquista region, but also from Ilhéus to Bom Jesus da Lapa, as well as other regions of Bahia and Brazil. The study is constituted as an ethnography whose construction makes it possible to approach the “social life” of a spiritual entity in a context crossed by the various forms of racism in Brazilian society. One of the central figures in the terreiro, the Marujo, as he adapts to the life of the group and the person who receives him - Mãe Fátima, a leader of the terreiro - he also transforms himself, beyond a spiritual entity, into a social, educational, cultural and political agent who promotes group cohesion.