Tambor de Mina na Amazônia: memória e reconfiguração identitária do Terreiro de Santa Bárbara do Seringal Mirim - AM

Abstract

The present work is based on some assumptions for interdisciplinary reflections and analyses, proposed by the Graduate Program in Society and Culture in the Amazon - PPGSCA - UFAM. It is necessary to understand the social processes and the construction of Amazonian social thought, through documentary records, primary sources, cultural expressions and the entire referential framework for the construction of this research, where the processes of colonization and migration of the Northeast and the blacks who came from Maranhão. We will visit necessary approaches of the precursors and dialogues related to the Tambor de Mina in the Amazon, using the methodology of oral history and the memory of the manifestations of the city of Manaus, the mothers of saints and religious, who implemented the cult and the Afro-Brazilian and folkloric religious manifestations of black ancestry. The Daomeanas memories in the Terreiro de Santa Bárbara do Seringal Mirim and its cultural expressions such as the Boi Mina de Ouro, the Dance of the Parrot Bird and the changes that occurred, Seringal Mirim which was a place for the experimentation of the planting of the rubber tree, in which it would serve as a model rubber tree, in experimentation of the "Clube da Seringueira'' in the "golden of rubber" period. This approach intends to deal with a cutout referring to the memories and reconfigurations of the Terreiro de Santa Bárbara and to account for this scope it was necessary from the contextualization of the Amazonian reality to elaborate a question: Is there a process of reconfiguration in the identity matrix of the Terreiro de Santa Bárbara do Seringal Mirim? From this question comes to the fore the broader perception of the incidence of the religious, that is, one cannot think of Amazonian identity, without thinking about the contribution of the Religions of African Matrices and, this study provides the construction of links and approximations necessary for the understanding of these changes by the interpretative lenses of Norbert Elias, understanding that identity is conceptualized as a social construction in constant transformation, and composed of customs and traditions, and of these reconfigurations. Configurations among them, we highlight the concept of configuration as central, because it allows the reformulation even of the very meaning of sociology in Eliasian theory, interdependence and balance of tensions in this sense, is considered a configurational sociology.