A pesquisa empírica desta dissertação foi realizada junto à comunidade do Boqueirão, em Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade/MT, no contexto sistêmico e arqueológico, entre 2008 e 2011. Através dela, procuramos interpretar processos culturais nessa área remanescente de quilombo, relacionados a elementos da paisagem, em especial as árvores. De um lado, consideramos a importância que as plantas ocupam nos cultos afro-brasileiros, e, de outro, o potencial mnemônico e distintivo das árvores, capazes de despertar recordações nesse grupo de afrodescendentes e sua memória. Os dados coletados no contexto sistêmico foram aplicados na interpretação do sítio arqueológico, com a intenção de ampliar a variação diacrônica da análise. Paralelamente ao levantamento no Boqueirão, realizamos pesquisa de campo em cinco terreiros de cultos afro-brasileiros, quatro em na região metropolitana de São Paulo e um na zona rural de Cuiabá. Chegamos a parte do passado familiar de membros dessa comunidade, e também de um passado ancestral, pois alguns dos dados obtidos estão relacionados até mesmo a suas origens africanas. Esta dissertação também tem como objetivo contribuir para o incremento dos estudos africanos e afro-brasileiros no campo da arqueologia. Concluímos que existem árvores cujo significado simbólico tem correspondência com o modo de pensamento da comunidade, tanto dos terreiros estudados, como aponta a literatura sobre a religiosidade afro-brasileira, quanto no quilombo do Boqueirão. Concluímos também que os estudos antropológicos e sociológicos sobre o Negro no Brasil deveriam ser mais considerados pela arqueologia e, sobretudo pela arqueologia da diáspora africana, uma das ramificações dessa disciplina em que se pautaram nossos estudos. / The empirical research of this dissertation was conducted in an archeological site in the Boqueirão community, in Vila Bela da Santíssima Trindade (state of Mato Grosso, Brazil), in the systemic context between 2008 and 2011. Throughout this work, we have aimed to perceive cultural processes in this quilombo remnant area, related to certain landscape elements, especially trees. We have considered not only the important role of plants in the Afro-Brazilian religions, but their distinctive and mnemonic potential as well, able to bring up reminiscences in this afro-descendant group and its memory. Data collected in the systemic context were used for the interpretation of the archeological site, in order to broaden the diachronic variation of the analysis. Parallel to the data collection in Boqueirão, we have conducted field work in five Afro-Brazilian \"terreiros\" (places of worship), four in the Metropolitan Area of São Paulo and one in Cuiabá countryside (in the state of Mato Grosso). We were able to trace back to part of the family background of some members of this community, in addition to part of their ancient past, for some of the data obtained led to their African roots. This dissertation also aims to contribute to the general improvement of African and Afro-Brazilian studies in the field of Archaeology. We conclude that there are trees which bear a symbolic significance to the way of thinking of the community, both inside the studied \"terreiros\", in accordance with the Afro-Brazilian religion literature, and also in the Boqueirão Quilombo. We also conclude that anthropological and sociological studies about the black population in Brazil should be taken more into consideration by Archaeology, and, above all, by the Archaeology of the African Diaspora, one the branches of this field of study upon which our studies were based.

[pt] Esta pesquisa compreende como a religião afro-brasileira Candomblé se relaciona com o espaço físico em que acontece no mundo. Este lugar é chamado, carinhosamente, Roça. Estabelecendo a relação entre a cultura negra afrodiaspórica e a Arquitetura, revela-se uma forma muito particular de habitar. A religião, culturalmente, é um campo fértil de simbologias dessa existência, e contém aspectos cheios de significados do homem, do divino e do lugar. Dentre as religiões afrosiaspóricas, o Candomblé tem importância fundamental. Uma comunidade de resistência e de produção cultural, moldada pela mutabilidade, movimento e hibridação da diáspora negra. Buscou-se compreender os significados, os sentidos e as definições de cada elemento que compõe o universo da Roça de Candomblé: os elementos pré-existentes, construídos, naturais e as relações destes com a comunidade religiosa que compõe, com os deuses e ancestrais, os habitantes deste espaço metafísico afro-brasileiro. A dissertação foi desenvolvida através de grande revisão bibliográfica, e a pesquisa de campo etnográfica, com o processo de iniciação do autor no terreiro de Candomblé Ilê Axé Icimimó Aganju Didê, na cidade de Cachoeira, Bahia. Esse fato abre uma comunicação específica com a comunidade religiosa do Icimimó. A ideia é fazer da participação, um instrumento de conhecimento, despedaçando a dicotomia observador-objeto de observação. Neste processo são produzidos desenhos, plantas, arquivos fotográficos e entrevistas. Tecendo esta grande teia de referências se revela um novo Habitar no mundo. / [en] This research seeks to understand how the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé relates to the physical space in which it takes place in the world. This place is affectionately called Roça. Establishing the relationship between Afro-Diasporic black culture and Architecture, a very particular way of inhabiting is revealed. Religion, culturally, is a fertile field of symbology of this existence, and contains aspects full of meanings of man, the divine, and the place. Among black religions, Candomblé is of fundamental importance. A community of resistance and cultural production, shaped by the mutability, movement, and hybridization of the black diaspora. We sought to understand the meanings, senses, and definitions of each element that makes up the universe of Roça of Candomblé: the pre-existing, built, natural elements and their relationships with the religious community that composes, together with the gods and the ancestors, the inhabitants of this Afro-Brazilian metaphysical space. The dissertation was developed through a major bibliographic review, and ethnographic field research, with the author s initiation process in the terreiro of Candomblé Ilê Axé Icimimó Aganju Didê, in the city of Cachoeira, Bahia. This fact opens a specific communication with the religious community of Icimimó. The idea is to make participation an instrument of knowledge, breaking the observer-observation dichotomy. In this process, drawings, plans, photographic files and interviews are produced. Weaving this great web of references reveals a new Dwelling in the world.

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This dissertation argues that Anglophone writers across the nineteenth-century Atlantic World can be seen trying to represent specific natural worlds as intentionally produced by the cultural practices of Indigenous or African Diasporic people. The case studies that support this argument include the work of Anne Wollstonecraft, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, and Gilbert Wilson, and they respectively travel from the plantation worlds of Matanzas, Cuba amidst the island’s “sugar revolution,” New England river wetlands but especially the unrelenting persistence of swamps, desert island archipelagos in the Pacific just before the Guano Wars, and the upper Missouri River basin beds increasingly enclosed by United States military installations. Reading each writer’s representation of these natural and social worlds through the framework of ‘land management,’ this thesis proposes a way of registering and tracing their shared attempt to discern practices that all center around the reproduction of ‘natural variation.’ It contends that these nineteenth-century attempts to observe, speculate, or imagine instances of natural variation, each as a product of Indigenous or African Diasporic land management practices be read as a form of poetics, which this dissertation defines as the rhetorical appropriation and reconfiguration of previous modes of discourse (as opposed to an idea of raw innovation). Here, Wollstonecraft, Hawthorne, Melville, and Wilson each renegotiate the colonial justification narrative, official orders of natural history, the perspective of the travel log, and early ethnographic anthropology, in order to represent myriad relationships between natural resilience and subaltern ‘survivance,’ the convergence of which this dissertation ultimately names ‘endurance.’ Finally, we might think of each renegotiation as itself a form of ‘management’ by which these writers respectively highlight their understanding of literature’s role in empire, but do so, in the hopes of rerouting this relay so that representations of nature come to include the role of cultural practices of land management. This archive of ‘endurance’ might be read, then, as the result of disparate authors who all nevertheless believe that literary work might actually help restore and sustain cultural and environmental realities.

Thesis (PhD)--Stellenbosch University, 2013. / ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This dissertation explores selected Indian narratives that emerge in South Africa and East Africa between 1960 and 2010, focusing on representations of migrations from the late 19th century, with the entrenchment of mercantile capitalism, to the early 21st century entry of immigrants into the metropolises of Europe, the US and Canada as part of the post-1960s upsurge in global migrations. The (post-)colonial and imperial sites that these narratives straddle re-echo Vijay Mishra‘s reading of Indian diasporic narratives as two autonomous archives designated by the terms, "old" and "new" diasporas. The study underscores the role of memory both in quests for legitimation and in making sense of Indian marginality in diasporic sites across the continent and in the global north, drawing together South Asia, Africa and the global north as continuous fields of analysis. Categorising the narratives from the two locations in their order of emergence, I explore how Ansuyah R. Singh‘s Behold the Earth Mourns (1960) and Bahadur Tejani‘s Day After Tomorrow (1971), as the first novels in English to be published by a South African and an East African writer of Indian descent, respectively, grapple with questions of citizenship and legitimation. I categorise subsequent narratives from South Africa into those that emerge during apartheid, namely, Ahmed Essop‘s The Hajji and Other Stories (1978), Agnes Sam‘s Jesus is Indian and Other Stories (1989) and K. Goonam‘s Coolie Doctor: An Autobiography by Dr Goonam (1991); and in the post-apartheid period, including here Imraan Coovadia‘s The Wedding (2001) and Aziz Hassim‘s The Lotus People (2002) and Ronnie Govender‘s Song of the Atman (2006). I explore how narratives under the former category represent tensions between apartheid state – that aimed to reveal and entrench internal divisions within its borders as part of its technology of rule – and the resultant anti-apartheid nationalism that coheres around a unifying ―black‖ identity, drawing attention to how the texts complicate both apartheid and anti-apartheid strategies by simultaneously suggesting and bridging differences or divisions. Post-apartheid narratives, in contrast to the homogenisation of "blackness", celebrate ethnic self-assertion, foregrounding cultural authentication in response to the post-apartheid "rainbow-nation" project. Similarly, I explore subsequent East African narratives under two categories. In the first category I include Peter Nazareth‘s In a Brown Mantle (1972) and M.G. Vassanji‘s The Gunny Sack (1989) as two novels that imagine Asians‘ colonial experience and their entry into the post-independence dispensation, focusing on how this transition complicates notions of home and national belonging. In the second category, I explore Jameela Siddiqi‘s The Feast of the Nine Virgins (1995), Yasmin Alibhai-Brown‘s No Place Like Home (1996) and Shailja Patel‘s Migritude (2010) as post-1990 narratives that grapple with political backlashes that engender migrations and relocations of Asian subjects from East Africa to imperial metropolises. As part of the recognition of the totalising and oppressive capacities of culture, the three authors, writing from both within and without Indianness, invite the diaspora to take stock of its role in the fermentation of political backlashes against its presence in East Africa. / AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Hierdie studie fokus op geselekteerde narratiewe deur skrywers van Indiër-oorsprong wat tussen 1960 en 2010 in Suid-Afrika en Oos-Afrika ontstaan om uitbeeldings van migrerings en verskuiwings vanaf die einde van die 19e eeu, ná die vestiging van handelskapitalisme, immigrasie in die vroeë 21e eeu na die groot stede van Europa, die VS en Kanada, te ondersoek, met die oog op navorsing na die toename in globale migrasies. Die (post-)koloniale en imperial liggings wat in hierdie narratiewe oorvleuel, beam Vijay Mishra se lesing van diasporiese Indiese narratiewe as twee outonome argiewe wat deur die terme "ou" en "nuwe" diasporas aangedui word. Hierdie proefskrif bestudeer die manier waarop herinneringe benut word, nie alleen in die soeke na legitimisering en burgerskap nie, maar ook om tot 'n beter begrip te kom van die omstandighede wat Asiërs na die imperiale wêreldstede loods. Ek kategoriseer die twee narratiewe volgens die twee lokale en in die volgorde waarin hulle verskyn het en bestudeer Ansuyah R Singh se Behold the Earth Mourns (1960) en Bahadur Tejani se Day After Tomorrow (1971) as die eerste roman wat deur 'n Suid-Afrikaanse en 'n Oos-Afrikaanse skrywe van Indiese herkoms in Engels gepubliseer is, en die wyse waarop hulle onderskeidelik die kwessies van burgerskap en legitimisasie benader. In daaropvolgende verhale van Suid-Afrika, onderskei ek tussen narratiewe at hul onstaan in die apartheidsjare gehad het, naamlik The Hajji and Other Stories deur Ahmed Essop, Jesus is Indian and Other Stories (1989) deur Agnes Sam en Coolie Doctor: An Autobiography by Dr. Goonam deur K. Goonam; uit die post-apartheid era kom The Wedding (2001) deur Imraan Covadia en The Lotus People (2002) deur Aziz Hassim, asook Song of the Atman (2006) deur Ronnie Govender. Ek kyk hoe die verhale in die eerste kategorie spanning beskryf tussen die apartheidstaat — en die gevolglike anti-apartheidnasionalisme in 'n eenheidskeppende "swart" identiteit — om die aandag te vestig op die wyse waarop die tekste sowel apartheid- as anti-apartheid strategieë kompliseer deur tegelykertyd versoeningsmoontlikhede en verdeelheid uit te beeld. Post-apartheid verhale, daarenteen, loof eerder etniese selfbemagtiging met die klem op kulturele outentisiteit in reaksie op die post-apartheid bevordering van 'n "reënboognasie", as om 'n homogene "swartheid" voor te staan. Op dieselfde manier bestudeer ek die daaropvolgende Oos-Afrikaanse verhale onder twee kategorieë. In die eerste kategorie sluit ek In an Brown Mantle (1972) deur Peter Nazareth en The Gunny Sack (1989) deur M.G. Vassanjiin, as twee romans wat Asiërs se koloniale geskiedenis en hul toetrede tot die post-onafhanklikheid bedeling uitbeeld (verbeeld) (imagine), met die klem op die wyse waarop hierdie oorgang begrippe van samehorigheid kompliseer. In die tweede kategorie kyk ek na The Feast of the Nine Virgins (1995) deur Jameela Siddiqi, No Place Like Home (1996) deur Yasmin Alibhai en Migritude (2010) deur Shaila Patel as voorbeelde van post-1990 verhale wat probleme met die politieke teenreaksies en verskuiwings van Asiër-onderdane vanuit Oos-Afrika na wêreldstede aanspreek. As deel van die erkenning van die totaliserende en onderdrukkende kapasiteit van kultuur, vra die drie skrywers – as Indiërs en as wêreldburgers – die diaspora om sy rol in die opstook van politieke teenreaksie teen sy teenwoordigheid in Oos-Afrika onder oënskou te neem.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-11-05T12:59:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Garcia dos Santos.pdf: 2243413 bytes, checksum: 462f1841f67e62ea1e965184f6390de2 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-11-05T12:59:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Bruno Garcia dos Santos.pdf: 2243413 bytes, checksum: 462f1841f67e62ea1e965184f6390de2 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-09-13 / Conselho Nacional de Pesquisa e Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico - CNPq / Countries of the African Diaspora, in particular Brazil, have as heritage the ancestral practices that constitute the sociocultural structure, the history, and the memory of these groups. However, these countries are experiencing a process that does not properly recognize these peoples, especially because of political-economic interests that neglect and stereotype the vast African universe, marked by knowledge, science, and worldviews. Taking this into consideration, our study is part of a set of initiatives aimed at highlighting the importance of preserving Afro-diasporic memories in Brazil, focusing on a black territory in São Paulo – Parque Peruche Neighborhood, located in the Northern region of the city of São Paulo (SP). Our main objectives are: (1) participate in the production of memories and monitor narratives of the diversity and memory of Afro-diasporic groups; (2) participate in debates about the resignification of ancestral oral practices in the African Diaspora, and (3) suggest possible interpretations on the presence and permanence of Black-African ancestry in the São Paulo territory. As a specific objective, we intend to draw a parallel between the current discussion about African heritage in Parque Peruche Neighborhood and the way the paths and narratives of its interlocutors, guardians of the black memories of such region, are developed. Based on oral history, the methodological procedure will be carried out in order to associate the bibliographic material with the fieldwork material / Os países da diáspora, em particular o Brasil, são herdeiros de práticas ancestrais que constituem a estrutura sociocultural, a história e a memória de grupos africanos. No entanto, tais países vivenciam um processo que não concede o devido reconhecimento a esses povos, sobretudo por conta de interesses político-econômicos que negligenciam e estereotipam o vasto universo africano, marcado por saberes, ciências e cosmovisões. Considerando esse contexto, o presente trabalho insere-se em um conjunto de iniciativas que têm por finalidade exaltar a importância da preservação de memórias afrodiaspóricas no Brasil, particularizando um território negro paulistano – o Parque Peruche e seu entorno, situado na zona norte do município de São Paulo (SP). São seus objetivos centrais (1) participar da produção de memórias e acompanhar narrativas da diversidade e memória de grupos afrodiaspóricos; (2) participar de debates sobre reelaborações de práticas orais ancestrais na diáspora e (3) sugerir possíveis traduções acerca da presença e permanência de ancestralidades negro-africanas em território paulistano. Como objetivo específico, pretende traçar um paralelo entre a discussão vigente em torno das heranças africanas no Parque Peruche e o modo pelo qual ocorrem percursos e narrativas de suas/seus interlocutoras(es), guardiãs/ões das memórias negras da zona norte do município (SP). Com base na história oral, o procedimento metodológico é realizado com vistas a articular o material bibliográfico ao material advindo de pesquisa de campo

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-29T13:31:37Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Liliane Pereira Braga.pdf: 663723 bytes, checksum: 02710f5a67698c9243916edc6121de47 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-10-23 / This research tried to understand how the civilizatory patrimony of the yorubas - known as "nagôs" in Brazil make it possible to constitute the afrodescendent identities with an emancipatory sense as they respect the freedom of the differences with the valorization of the social equality. The respect to diverseness is a fundamental value among the nagôs and the candomblé, one of the main receivers of its tradition, disseminates that value mainly through the yoruba mythology. This mythology is portrayed here as part of that civilizatory patrimony and encompasses, in persona of the orixás, the search for a society in which there is space for the diversity of human types, in an equalitarian way. To understand how the original inheritance of a piece of Africa makes it possible to constitute the afrodescendent identities with a emancipatory sense, a case study was done which involves the life history of Ilícito - a rapper who demonstrates in his music to share many of the present aspects of the African legacy being studied. Among them, it is the identification with the persona of the orixás, especially with Xangô. The plot around that orixá allows us to explore a little more the subject of the respect to alteration among the nagôs. We used the theoretical-methodological approach of Antonio da Costa Ciampa as the theoretical support for this research, in whose opinion identity is a metamorphosis process in search of human emancipation / A presente pesquisa procura compreender como o patrimônio civilizatório dos iorubás - conhecidos como nagôs no Brasil - possibilita que identidades afrodescendentes se constituam com um sentido emancipatório ao respeitarem a liberdade das diferenças com a valorização da igualdade social. O respeito à alteridade é valor fundamental entre os nagôs e o candomblé, um dos grandes depositários da sua tradição, dissemina esse valor principalmente por meio da mitologia iorubana. Retratada aqui como parte desse patrimônio civilizatório, tal mitologia traz na figura dos orixás a busca de uma sociedade em que haja espaço para a diversidade dos tipos humanos, de forma igualitária. Para compreender como a herança originária de um pedaço de África possibilita que identidades afrodescendentes se constituam com um sentido emancipatório, foi realizado um estudo de caso envolvendo a história de vida de Ilícito - um rapper que, em suas músicas, demonstra compartilhar muitos dos aspectos presentes no legado africano em questão. Entre eles, está a identificação com as figuras dos orixás, especialmente com Xangô. O enredo em torno desse orixá permite-nos explorar um pouco mais a questão do respeito à alteridade presente entre os nagôs. Como suporte teórico desta pesquisa, é utilizada a abordagem teórico-metodológica de Antonio da Costa Ciampa, para quem identidade é o processo de metamorfose em busca da emancipação humana

[pt] No início de 2011, em um expressivo achado arqueológico na zona portuária da cidade do Rio de Janeiro, foram encontradas as pedras do cais por onde desembarcaram centenas de milhares de escravos africanos a serem vendidos no antigo mercado do Valongo, tido como o maior do gênero no Brasil nos séculos XVIII e XIX. Soterrado e apagado do tecido urbano carioca por quase dois séculos, o Valongo se transforma, em 2012, em ponto de um Circuito Histórico e Arqueológico da Celebração da Herança Africana, de cunho pedagógico e turístico, no contexto de uma ampla reforma urbanística da área portuária, o Projeto Porto Maravilha. Esta tese discute as possibilidades de releitura, na atualidade, de uma parte da história da cidade e do País associada ao tráfico negreiro e ao escravismo que, sob muitos aspectos, deixou de ser contada. Investiga, a partir de um lugar geográfico, a inscrição do passado da escravidão no imaginário social da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e do País, visitando diferentes temporalidades históricas. A descoberta contemporânea do antigo cais e mercado de escravos evoca o topos de que a experiência da escravidão no Brasil foi, de diferentes modos, apagada. Nestes termos, a emergência dessas ruínas no século XXI motiva o questionamento sobre como e por quem a história brasileira foi e é configurada. / [en] In early 2011, during an outstanding archeological excavation in the port area of Rio de Janeiro city, stones were found that belonged to the wharf where hundreds of thousands of African slaves disembarked to be sold in the old Valongo market, held to be the largest of its kind in Brazil in the 18th and 19th centuries. Buried and erased from the urban texture of Rio for nearly two centuries, in 2012 Valongo has become a milestone in the Historical and Archeological Circuit of the Celebration of African Legacy, with both educational and tourist characteristics, within the context of a sweeping city-planning reform of the docks area: the Marvellous Port Project. This thesis discusses the possibilities of (re)reading today a part of the history of the city and the country, a history associated with the African slave trade and slavery which in many aspects was not told. Starting from a geographic location, an investigation is made into how the history of slavery has been impressed in the social imaginary of the city of Rio de Janeiro and the country over several historical periods. The contemporary discovery of the old wharf and slave market evokes the topos that the experience of slavery in Brazil was, in many aspects, wiped out. Seen in this light, the emerging of these ruins in the 21st century arouses questions as to how and by whom Brazilian history was and is configured.