Ethnography of a roda de samba: the samba experience in Alto Alegre

• Grant number: 18/26214-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Scientific Initiation
• Start date: June 01, 2019
• End date: December 31, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Christina de Rezende Rubim
• Grantee: Rafael Andrade Caldas
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências (FFC). Universidade Estadual Paulista (UNESP). Campus de Marília. Marília , SP, Brazil

Abstract

From a family experience through the roda de samba in Alto Alegre, in the district of Ipirá-BA, we had the experience of anthropological estrangement, being this experimentation the contact with a term known to us, but divergent in the practices of that community. Taking the strangeness as it makes possible to problematize our preconceived ideas of existence, our objective is to understand the samba de roda as a whole, its history, context and power, economic and social relations among its specific actors, in Alto Alegre. Seeking to answer, in what way this samba constitutes a form of expression distinct from the others practiced, being particular of that specific space, and how the samba de roda is related to the processes of construction, reproduction and ruptures of the cultural identity of the connected actors and this settlement. This is an ethnographic research, a perspective that has as its principle the theoretical refinement in the Human Sciences through the collection of empirical data in continuous dialogue with the scientific theories, as well as in the recognition of other world practices and visions. The anthropology of the practice of Sherry Beth Ortner (2006) is its theoretical-methodological base, being a general theory of the production, reproduction and transformation of the subject through its action in the world, as well as of the production, reproduction and transformation of the world itself by this action. We also accept as an interpretative resource, the concept of culture used by the same author, the definition of samba by Batista Siqueira (1978) and the idea of permanence and transformation of Nina Graeff (2015).