Com os pés na África: corpo, arte e lazer em um terreiro de candomblé

Abstract

The current study deals with the process of immersion in an “candomblé community” located in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte (Minas Gerais –Brazil), approached as a context of cultural experiences capable to intertwining different ways of life, perceptions, intersubjective relations, knowledge and specific social practices. In this approach, which focuses on the subjects and their daily interactions, contributions were received especially from the universes of anthropology, art, education and leisure studies. This work is, therefore, an ethnographic proposition that intends to broaden the debate about certain cultural manifestation of African origins in Brazil, even proposing other possibilities of approximation and understanding related to its current configurations and implications in the panorama of ethnic-racial relations in the country.