Thesis (D. Miss.)--Western Seminary, 2000. / Abstract. This is an electronic reproduction of TREN, #002-0729. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 266-274).

?rea de concentra??o: Linguagem, Filosofia e Cultura. / Submitted by Jos? Henrique Henrique (jose.neves@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2018-09-06T20:17:17Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) robson_gomes_brito.pdf: 1784663 bytes, checksum: 86b36ce815d5a626c4134aecee3769a6 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Rodrigo Martins Cruz (rodrigo.cruz@ufvjm.edu.br) on 2018-10-04T19:09:15Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) robson_gomes_brito.pdf: 1784663 bytes, checksum: 86b36ce815d5a626c4134aecee3769a6 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-10-04T19:09:15Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 0 bytes, checksum: d41d8cd98f00b204e9800998ecf8427e (MD5) robson_gomes_brito.pdf: 1784663 bytes, checksum: 86b36ce815d5a626c4134aecee3769a6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018 / A presente pesquisa desenvolve um exerc?cio anal?tico e te?rico-conceitual da aproxima??o dial?gica existente entre os mitos cosmog?nicos grego e iorub?. Por meio de uma an?lise comparada que envolve a lingu?stica, a antropologia e os estudos acerca dos mitos. A princ?pio busca-se demonstrar a compara??o entre os mitos e a sua import?ncia para o exerc?cio lingu?stico textual. Em seguida, prop?e-se verificar a proced?ncia de outras investiga??es que atestam os textos, Mitologia dos Orix?s e Teogonia de Hes?odo, como produ??es m?ticas cosmog?nicas e finaliza-se com a demonstra??o das poss?veis interpreta??es extra?das dos textos. / Disserta??o (Mestrado Profissional) ? Programa de P?s-Gradua??o em Ci?ncias Humanas, Universidade Federal dos Vales do Jequitinhonha e Mucuri, 2018. / The present research develops an analytical and theoretical-conceptual exercise of the dialogical approach existing between the Greek and Yoruba cosmogonic myths. Through a comparative analysis involving linguistics, anthropology, and studies of myths. At first it is tried to demonstrate the comparison between the myths and their importance for the textual linguistic exercise. Next, it is proposed to verify the origin of other investigations that attest the texts, Mythology of the Orix?s and Theogony of Hesiod, as mythical cosmogonic productions and ends with the demonstration of the possible interpretations extracted from the texts.

Esta dissertação constitui-se de um estudo da cultura material de origem africana em que se investiga a produção, circulação, utilização e descarte de objetos africanos e afro-inspirados, aos quais eventualmente no Brasil agregam-se novos significados. Tratamos particularmente de duas produções características dos iorubás: as máscaras gueledé e os edan ogboni. Alguns desses objetos constam em coleções no Brasil, e seu uso em cultos religiosos afro-brasileiros do Recôncavo Baiano, no passado, é mencionado na literatura especializada. Na Nigéria e no Benim as máscaras de madeira denominadas gueledé e as estatuetas de liga de cobre edan são insígnias de duas importantes instituições tradicionais dos iorubás: a associação Gueledé e a associação Ogboni, respectivamente. Esses objetos estão associados a entidades espirituais (Iyami e Onilé) que segundo a cosmogonia desse povo são as grandes mães ancestrais da humanidade. Alguns pesquisadores se valem da presença desses artefatos no Brasil para fundamentar a hipótese da reestruturação dessas instituições iorubás no Recôncavo Baiano, no final do período colonial. Outros autores, indo além, associam a suposta \"sociedade Ogboni brasileira\" com episódios das revoltas dos malês. Tomando-se a análise do ciclo de vida desses artefatos como instrumental metodológico, verificamos, no entanto, que o aparecimento dessas peças aqui no Brasil pode ter se dado não por causa da transplantação dessas instituições tradicionais africanas, mas por questões ligadas à permanência dos aspectos mais profundos da cosmologia iorubá dentro dos próprios terreiros de candomblé, e também pela disputa por reconhecimento e poder entre os mais antigos deles, evidenciando a potencialidade que esses artefatos têm de transmissão e preservação da memória coletiva de um terreiro. Neste estudo, além do ciclo de vida das peças, levam-se em consideração aspectos morfológico e tecnológicos da produção desses artefatos, em que se incluem os espaços que lhes são associados, bem como aspectos do universo simbólico que deu sentido a essas peças e animou seu ciclo de vida. / This dissertation results from a study of the material culture of African origin, in which the manufacture, circulation, use and discard of African and African-inspired objects are investigated. Two kinds of characteristic yoruba production are focused: the geledé masks and the edan ogboni statuettes. Some of these objects are found in Brazilian collections, and their use in Afro-Brazilian religious cults in Recôncavo Baiano in the past is mentioned in the experts\' writings. In Nigeria and Benin the wooden masks called geledé and the cooper alloy statuettes edan are insignia of important traditional yoruba institutions: the Geledé Association and the Ogboni Association, respectively. These objects are associated to spiritual entities (Iyami and Onile) who, according to the cosmology of this people, are the great ancestor mothers of the humankind. Some researchers allege the presence of these artefacts in Brazil in order to prove the hypothesis of reestructuring of those yoruba institutions in Recôncavo Baiano at the end of the colonial period. Other authors go even further, associating this supposed Brazilian Ogboni Association to the Malê rebellion (1809). Using the analisys of the life cycle of those artefacts as a methodological tool, we found that the apparition of those objects here in Brazil may be due not to the transplantation of those traditional African institutions, but to issues linked to the permanence of the most profound aspects of yoruba cosmology inside the own terreiros de candomblé, and also to the dispute for recognizement and power among the oldest of them, so showing the potential these artefacts have to transmit and preserve the collective memory of a terreiro. In this study, in addition to the life cycle of those pieces, morphological and technological aspects of their production are considered, including also the spaces which are associated to them, as well as aspects of the symbolic universe which provide meaning to these objects and animated their life cycles.

Philosophiae Doctor - PhD / This research charts the political and visual economies of asọ ebì in urban Lagos from 1960 to 2010. Under political economy I address the politics of asọ ebì dress in Lagos: the contestations surrounding the use of asọ ebì among friends, family members, organizations, among others. Under visual economy I engage the role of photography and other visual cultural practices in the practice of asọ ebì. From the 1960s asọ ebì began to be redefined in line with the cultural and socio-economic changes that came with late global capitalism. Within asọ ebì practice in the city of Lagos meanings of friendship, solidarity, camaraderie and wealth have undergone radical transformation as more people migrate to the city after Nigeria’s independence. From the 1970s through the 1980s, individuals were compelled by the economic conditions to adopt new modes of asọ ebì practice. For example new types of textile materials used for asọ ebì expanded to include cheaper textiles imported from China and elsewhere. Instead of offering aso ebi free, individuals sold it to their friends and within such transactions, politics of exclusion and inclusion ensued. From the 1990s through the 2000s, the rise of digital photography and the emergence of radical printing technology ushered a new mode of fashioning asọ ebì. In the process, photography and fashion magazines became a means of negotiating sartorial elegance and cosmopolitan modernity. In this thesis, therefore, the central argument resides in the contestations surrounding the use and meanings of asọ ebì within these transformations in the city of Lagos.

Orientador: Leonardo Lemos de Souza / Banca: Wiliam Siqueira Peres / Banca: Luis Felipe Rios do Nascimento / Resumo: A pesquisa aqui apresentada consiste no desdobramento da investigação de iniciação científica realizada durante o ano de 2016, cujo o propósito foi mapear os papéis de poder desempenhados por mulheres afro-religiosas de uma determinada família espiritual. Referente ao percurso atual, nosso objetivo prioritário foi cartografar atravessamentos de gêneros e sexualidades que compõem os processos de subjetivação de mulheres consagradas a Iemanjá. Tivemos, ainda, a pretensão de averiguar questões pertinentes às práticas corporais vivenciadas nas festas e demais liturgias do grupo. Ao total, foram entrevistadas quatro mulheres candomblecistas consagradas a divindade acima citada. As entrevistas foram organizadas por um roteiro composto por cinco grandes eixos temáticos. Como ferramenta ética e metodológica, utilizamos a cartografia aplicada à psicologia social. As entrevistas foram gravadas e, posteriormente, transcritas. Assim sendo, foi possível realizar o manejo cartográfico com o material coletado, de maneira a propor diálogos entre a teoria e as experiências relatadas pelas mulheres. Nossa bibliografia básica contemplou, principalmente, estudos que versam sobre o culto às/aos orixás no Brasil e questões de gêneros e sexualidades. Ademais, nos propomos a experimentar conceitos trabalhados por Michael Foucault, na fase de sua obra conhecida como Genealogia da Ética. Sobre as discussões resultantes dessa trajetória, apontamos para o fato de que deusa fornece modelos... (Resumo completo, clicar acesso eletrônico abaixo) / Abstract: The following research consists of the unfolding of the undergraduate research, carried out in 2016, that had as purpose the mapping of the power roles played by Afro-religious women from a particular spiritual family. Regarding the current route, our priority goal was to map crossings of gender and sexuality that make up the subjectivation processes of women consecrated to Iemanjá. We also had the intention of investigating pertinent issues related to the body practices experienced in the parties and other liturgies of the group. In total, it was interviewed four consecrated candomblecist women to the aforementioned divinity. The interviews were organized by a script composed of five major thematic axis. As an ethical and methodological tool, we use cartography applied to social psychology. The interviews were recorded and later transcribed. Thus, it was possible to perform the cartographic management with the collected material, to propose dialogues between the theory and the experiences reported by the women. Our basilar bibliography included mainly studies on the worship of orishas in Brazil and issues of gender and sexuality. Besides, we propose to experiment concepts worked by Michael Foucault, in the phase of his work known as Genealogy of Ethics. About the discussions resulted from this trajectory, we point to the fact that Goddess provides models of identification, especially regarding the performances of femininity. The research participants take divinity... (Complete abstract click electronic access below) / Mestre

The purpose of this study is to undertake a structural and functional analysis of the Igbin Dance, as performed by the Yoruba tribe in Western Nigeria.

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This study examined the relationship between child rearing practices and ethnic identity in interracial and Yoruba children in Nigeria. An in-depth study of 20 interracial and 20 Yoruba families was conducted. Three methods of measuring ethnic identity (a doll choice technique, Draw-A-Person and 'Tell me about yourself') were administered to 20 interracial and 20 Yoruba children (aged 6-9 years) in the home environment. A questionnaire was administered to the mother in each family to measure the extent of use of 'elite' Yoruba child rearing practices. A separate questionnaire was'also administered to fathers. The mothers' questionnaire responses were correlated with the children's test-results. The doll choice technique and Draw-A-Person were found to be more successful than 'Tell me about yourself'. However, an additional 'food preference' measure was extracted from 'Tell me about yourself'. The results indicated that Yoruba children showed a stronger Yoruba identity than interracial children and that the majority of children in both groups showed correct owngroup identification. As expected, Yoruba mothers were found to use more Yoruba child rearing, practices than interracial mothers. A significant relationship between child rearing practices and ethnic identity was found in the interracial group but not in the Yoruba group. Correlations between doll play, Draw-A-Person and the food preference measure were generally low. Race of experimenter (white and Yoruba) did not affect children's test results. Results were interpreted within a family interactions framework and with considerations given to the social and cultural background of the subjects. It was suggested that socialization may be important for the development of ethnic identity in the 'minority' interracial children but not in the 'majority' Yoruba children. The implications of this finding for interracial children in other societies and for other ethnic minority groups was discussed.

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