Ilê Axé Ijexá Orixá Olufon: memória e identidade de uma casa nagô-ijexá

Abstract

This dissertation is a reflection that interweaves memory and identity. It intends to treat memory of thinking and discourse in the construction of collective identity and the imaginary as part of the community that omorixá african-Brazilian Axé Ilê Ijexá Orixá Olufon, society, religion, origin Nago, belonging to the nation Ijexá, devoted to Oxalá, Orixá funfun, the father of creation, king of peace and love for the father of the cosmogony of the african-Brazilians. As a matter of facts, this work is characterized as a case study of qualitative aspects in order to enrich the understanding of the object under analysis. It is a qualitative approach because the social sciences deal with emotions, and values and subjectivity that often are not susceptible of quantification. When considering the construction of memory and identity of african-Brazilian religious groups, such as Ijexá, it can be proved that the legacy of the presence of Africans lefts its traces in the various cultural events in Brazil. Knowing these different elements is known and recognized, among other aspects, a past that lives in the present and it is inseparable from the Brazilian reality. Learn about your stuff makes the Brazilians and especially the black South baiano know about himself, to understand its origins, its symbolic world, its present, its diversity and richness, as soon as be free of its prejudices, learning to live with diversity and respect the choice of everyone