Cabana da Jurema: os sentidos sociais dos objetos religiosos afro-brasileiros

Abstract

This article articulates from two dimensions: a) the commercialization of Afro-Brazilian religious objects and B) the social senses mobilized by the research subjects to qualify such objects and products from the material and symbolic dimensions. Ethnographic research was carried out in the commercialization of products and utensils of rituals in Macapá, capital of the State of Amapá, in northern Brazil. Based on the way in which this establishment acted as an axis of diffusion of materials, information and experiences. The research made it possible to understand how spaces of production of Afro-Brazilian religiosity intersect with ways of understanding and negotiating the meanings attributed to the efficiency and effectiveness of objects as devices endowed with the possibility of diligence and communicative capacity in the relationship of humans with spiritual, human, and spiritual beings. Through ritual practice.