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| Author(s): |
Lucas Marques
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Total Authors: 1
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| Affiliation: | [1] Universidade de São Paulo - Brasil
Total Affiliations: 1
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| Document type: | Journal article |
| Source: | Horiz. antropol.; v. 31, n. 71 2025-02-17. |
| Abstract | |
Abstract The concept of huellas de africanía was introduced by Nina de Friedemann and Jaime Arocha in the 1980s, sparking criticism for purportedly essentializing Afro-American cultures. In this article, I propose a reassessment of this concept, drawing from research conducted in Tumaco, Colombia, on the intersections of various Afro-American religious practices. I focus on the diverse paths traced by the orisha Changó in the region, a deity present in various African-derived religions in the Americas. I seek to follow ethnographically how, through this deity, a group of people in Tumaco sought to reclaim existential territories and (re)create African religious practices in Colombia. By following Changó’s traces, I conclude with a reflection on the notion of “traces,” conceiving them not merely as survivals of a historical past but as potentialities that can be actualized, paths that can be reclaimed and reactivated in a properly cosmopolitical process. (AU) | |
| FAPESP's process: | 23/01246-5 - On the art of making gods: cosmotechnics of African-derived religions in Brazil |
| Grantee: | Lucas de Mendonça Marques |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships in Brazil - Post-Doctoral |
| FAPESP's process: | 20/07886-8 - Arts and semantics of creation and memory |
| Grantee: | Fernanda Arêas Peixoto |
| Support Opportunities: | Research Projects - Thematic Grants |