PRESERVING THE DAWN OF MEMORY OF AFRICAN MATRIX: THE ESTRELA DALVA DA UMBANDA
Umbanda; memory preservation; Estrela Dalva Tenda.
Religions of African origin have historically suffered from violence due to the practices of religious racism or religious intolerance in order to guarantee the subordination of black populations who were enslaved and saw their religious practices as a memory of mother Africa. The research has the general objective of analyzing how the Spiritist Tent of Umbanda Estrela Dalva preserves the memory of the African-based religion in Piauí society. And as for the specific objectives, they are: to present historical and conceptual aspects about religious racism, Umbanda and memory; map and characterize the informational supports of the Tenda Estrela Dalva collection for organizing information and preserving memory; identify the knowledge of Umbanda memory in the narrative of the trajectory of the mother of the saint of the Tenda Estrela Dalva terreiro and prepare a photographic catalog as an informational product to preserve the memory of the Tenda Estrela Dalva terreiro. The development of the research is justified by the importance of contributing to scientific production when it comes to collections that represent the memory of the black population based on the practices of African-based religion in Librarianship. To achieve the objectives described, we will have as methodological procedures the bibliographic survey, data collection through the application of interviews and writing, recording with photographs and intersectionality as an analytical field of data. It is considered that studies on Umbanda and its memory based on the life trajectory of Mãe de Santo and what she managed to build as an Umbanda terreiro, represent the memory of the black population who, through colonization, managed to resist and resurface as the protagonist of their lives cared for on the ground of the terreiro.