Relatos de poesía divina y humana afrodescendiente: rituales de limpieza y nacimiento
This article explores how the symbolic classifications of African descent are explained in the tales that constitute the divine and human poetry, so that presents a dichotomy of knowledge and practices, contrasting yet closely related. In the analysis are contained referents immersed in the Catholic...
| Autor Principal: | Quintero Barrera, Rosa Patricia |
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| Formato: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| Idioma: | spa |
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Universidad de San Buenaventura - Cali
2017
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1794-192X |
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This article explores how the symbolic classifications of African descent are explained in the tales that constitute the divine and human poetry, so that presents a dichotomy of knowledge and practices, contrasting yet closely related. In the analysis are contained referents immersed in the Catholicism inventories and other aspects that crisscross the traditional religious opponents of the official doctrine. Consequently, stories described in this paper refers to the human world by the likes of Diablo, the Goblin (Duende) and Madreagua, who are the enemies of Catholicism and whose function is to generate fear, illness and disease. To counter these human misfortunes, the African cosmology regards cleaning, healing and restructuring the balance through certain rituals and magic formulas, as shown in the ethnographic prune those inhabitants of the mountains and jungles. Finally, the rituals dedicated to infants, the ombligada and baptism-was erected in the two dynamics that reveal ideological meanings and practices of a complex epistemology, which shows a deep brotherhood between representations about the nature and religious practices carried out through rituals involving organized agreed and implications for the subject as to its future physical skills and identity, but also strengthen the ties of cooperation and solidarity. |
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