FOOD AND THE PROCESS OF TRANSTERRITORIZALIZATION IN CANDOMBLÉ, UMBANDA AND QUIMBANDA IN BOCAIÚVA, MINAS GERAIS, BRASIL

Abstract

The sacred territory of Candomblé, Umbanda and Quimbanda is not restricted to temples, but there is a spiritual and material continuum of them. In this sense, the present work aims to analyze the phenomenon of transterritorialization of Ilê Caboclo Pena Branca e Ogum Rompe Mato and Zambi-Iris, terrariums in the municipality of Bocaiúva, Minas Gerais, Brazil, focusing on the hierophanic sense of the food and coadunar elements of the offerings made to the deities in both terreiros. The methodology adopted was structured in a bibliographic review on the subject and a set of interviews, observations and photographic records in the field work. The result of the research describes a set of specificities in the studied subterritories. Spaces that on the one hand are considered sacred by the group of adherents of the Afro-Amerindian-Euro-Brazilian religions bocaiuvenses, but on the other they suffer a strong aversion of adherents

Keywords

• Food
• Afro-Amerindian-Euro-Brazilian Religions
• Transterritories