Mitos, ritos, memórias e imaginário dos indígenas potiguara da Paraíba

• Ano de defesa: 2022
• Autor(a) principal: Mendonça, Joselma Bianca Silva de Souza
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso embargado
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraíba; Brasil; Ciência das Religiões; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências das Religiões; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Indígenas; Mitos; Ritos; Memória; Imaginário; Troncos velhos potiguara; Indigenous; Myths; Rites; Memory; Imaginary; Old trunks potiguara; Popoli Indigeni; Miti; Riti; Immaginario; Tronchi antichi di potiguara; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::TEOLOGIA
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/123456789/26075

This thesis deals with myths, rites, memories and imaginary of the Potiguara of Paraíba indigenous people, and is based on the memories perpetuated in the narratives of the old resident trunks of Aldeias São Francisco, Lagoa do Mato and Alto do Tambá, located in the municipality of Baía da Traição-PB. The objective of the study is to investigate the myths, rites, memories and imaginaries of the Potiguara Indians of Paraíba, as well as the guiding principles of tradition, visions and cosmovisions. The research brings the purpose of recovering this reflection in the sense of explaining the ways of cultivating the myths of the Potiguara rites, memories and imaginary and to whom the efforts of conscience and preservation are linked to them. To support the analysis of the Potiguara, we used some theoretical contributions such as: Barcellos (2012), Nascimento (2017), Mendonça (2014), Palitot (2005), Vieira (2012) Bosi (1983) (1990), Eliade (2010; 2007), Straus (1978), Durand (2007), Pitta (2005) and other complementary works that expand the present discussion situated in the Sciences of Religions. We adopted a qualitative approach and ethnographic research and netnography as a method to understand the myth, the rite and the memory as foundations of the imaginaries in the Potiguara indigenous reality. During the examination, a field diary was used in participant observation and a semi-structured interview, strategies and investigation instruments that allowed us to be present in the daily activities and festivities that involve the indigenous people to understand the manifestation of myths in the imagination of the Potiguara Trunks. The thesis defended explains that the Troncos Velhos are responsible for leading indigenous society in a constant pedagogy that is based on existence, basing the dynamics of living according to the values of the Potiguara culture. The new trunks are registered here that validate their memories by reflecting them in the heart of community life. From this perspective, a social movement of resistance is strengthened, based on the instructive capital of wise men called guardians of cultural memory because they support both the science of myths and rites and the (sharing) of memories and imaginaries anchored in their indigenous ancestors. Myths exist to create expectations in individuals, to show them the time of finitude and, above all, of immortality. As they pass through generations, rites and memories become vehicles of communication of imaginary worlds that feed stories and heroic acts. In the Potiguara environment, myths assume these truths and gain structures in their compositions by moving along imaginary lines in which saints and devotions connect to the enchanted, which in turn are associated with natural phenomena, announcing omens through the cycle of the rains that are perpetuated in the harvests, in the rituals of renewal and in the local memories. These elements effectively contribute to the resistance and struggle for the preservation of sacred conquests around the territoriality, identity and spirituality of the indigenous people who inhabit the North Coast of the State of Paraíba.