Looking for a space: gestural language in Candomble of Angola: In Memory of Marlene de Oliveira Cunha
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2316-9133.v26i1p15-41Keywords:
Candomblé of Angola, Gestures, Anthropology of danceAbstract
In this articleI intend to analyze the trajectory of the black anthropologist Marlene de Oliveira Cunha, who was one of the first to work in the field of Anthropology the subject of gestures, comprising the body, dance and the African ancestry in Brazil. In the first part of the article I describe his participation in the black university movement and his entrance into African American studies. Then I present his proposal to analyze the gesturality in the candomblé of Angola in the 80’s and the connections with the current studies of dance anthropology. In the third part I do make an analysis of the ethnography provided regarding the postures: gincado, adobá, barravento and arrebate. In the last session I make an analysis of the research on the gesturality and its contributions to the line of research on Afro Brazilian religion and dance anthropology.
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