Entre o tempo e Orun: temporalidades e sentidos através das Santas Almas no Rio de Janeiro e São Luís

Abstract

The present research deals with the meanings that the entities known as Pretos Velhos produce in the experiences of adepts of religions of Afro-indigenous origins. The work seeks dialogue with fourteen interviewees from Rio de Janeiro and São Luís, as they are sources built in interactions with the researcher, emphasizing their spiritual conceptions as well as the experiences that shaped their lives, through contact with the Santas Almas. The central question is to evaluate in what terms the assemblages of non-humans occur and in what terms are they dimensioned by the religious who interact with them. Between discourses and subjectivities, the semi-structured interviews demonstrate how emotions, events, kinship, spiritualities and sociability are intertwined, altering the temporality of individuals in ordinary and everyday life. For that, it starts from the idea that the present time has been discussed in historiography, since the 1990s, more strongly, and that it observes the social criteria of conformation of perspectives on the past.