EPISTEMOLOGIC CROSSROADS: Applying the european knowledge of yesterday with a stone I only threw today

Abstract

The religions of African origin have been and are still intensely studied trying to understand how they function, the relations built between the faithful, as well as between the faithful and the entities. This society, as a non-European society, is studied on the basis of Eurocentric knowledge, which makes it possible to understand the ways of approaching universal knowledge about Candomblé, thus putting European knowledge as native. In this way, I follow the path proposed by the anthropologist Marimba Ani, to think about the Candomblé landscape and the African heritage, from the epistemologies originating from the terreiro. I use the poetry of the ogan Wesley Correia, the black thinkers of the diaspora and the Africans as a crossroads of possible ways to be constructed in dialogue with the novel Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe to enrich the discussion of vision-of-the-world and production of meaning.

Keywords: Marimba Ani; crossroads; native; universal knowledge; Wesley Correia.