Comida de terreiro e a agência não-humana no ritual do candomblé

Abstract

This work is articulated around the epistemic visuality of Candomblé terreiros and the ways in which saint food and eating habits are interconnected within these environments through dense flows, interactive flows that interconnect gastronomy, knowledge related to food rituals and mythological dynamics of the orixás. To activate these complex relationships we use Bruno Latour's writings about the Actor-Network Theory, which allows us to see the multiple visualities and functions that human and non-human actors have within the ritual practices of Candomblé. Therefore, eating and other issues related to food expand far beyond the basic food function: we understand that within the religious rites of the people of saint, food brings together a series of elements related to the preferences of the orixás, stories and mythological narratives. , functions and religious restrictions of certain foods and several other topics. To methodologically carry out the work, we were guided by a literature review on the themes highlighted here, in addition to the historical and critical perception and interpretation of myths of the orixás where food appears directly as a cosmological guide for certain actions. Furthermore, we use a brief cinematographic interpretation of the film (and in parts also of the book "O Compadre de Ogun"), Tenda dos Milagres by Jorge Amado seeking to use this work as a practical expression of the artistic bias of Candomblé amalgamated in culture and society . The work seeks to point out ways in which Candomblé and African-based religions can be seen based on their complexities linked to ancestry and the broad heuristic connections that exist between the many agents.