Banca de DEFESA: DAYANE BRUNA DA SILVA FERREIRA

STAR DALVA UMBANDA: PRESERVING THE MEMORY OF THE TERREIRO

Memory preservation. Religious racism. Star Dalva Tent. Umbanda.

Religions of African origin have historically suffered from violence due to the practices of religious racism and 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 Star Dalva preserves the memory of the African-based religion in Piauí society. And as for the specific objectives, they are: mapping the informational supports of the Tenda Star Dalva collection; identify the knowledge and actions produced in Tenda; Write the narrative of my journey as a daughter of Tenda and create a photographic catalog as an informational product to preserve the memory of the Terreiro da Tenda Star Dalva. 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 documentary research, the writing method, the selection of photos and their description for the development of the catalog and the creation and dissemination of this informational product. It is considered that studies on Umbanda and its memory based on my trajectory in Tenda and what I identified regarding the construction of the Umbanda terreiro, this represents the memory of the black population who, through their colonization, managed to resist and re-emerge as protagonists of their lives cared for on the ground of the terreiro.