LEBABIMIBOME: espiritualidade africana e resistência à escravização

Hildebrando de Almeida Cerqueira

doi:10.22481/odeere.v6i2.9627

Authors

Hildebrando de Almeida Cerqueira Université René Descartes-Sorbonne, Paris V https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1610-1407

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22481/odeere.v6i2.9627

Keywords:

Animalization, Slavery, Lebabimibome, Resistance

Abstract

In this article I revisit my doctoral thesis in social anthropology: “Esclavage et Inventions Spirituelles Afro-Brésiliennes: Du Vudum Lebabimibome aux Contes Populaires”, where we try to demonstrate one of the striking impacts of enslavement in the history of African and Afro-descendant peoples, like this fact marked the spiritual and intellectual life of diasporas in the Americas, especially the Brazilian. We show how these populations dialogued with each other, appropriated and transformed the cultural values of the peoples who subjugated them. By adapting to the new memberships, they were able to preserve their spiritual memories, thus creating sacred intermediaries such as the Seja Hundê, Candomblé jeje da Bahia, the Lebabimibome vudum, a hybrid of the Messenger of the ancestral religions Fon and Yoruba, Exu-Legbá and a monkey. By adopting this new religious manifestation, these peoples knew how to strategically recycle at the same time an old idea built by European colonists about Africans and their descendants, associating them with monkeys, seeing them as the link between man and animal. To escape slavery, groups of Africans used mime as a means of communication with foreigners. Through the tricks of the monkeys in popular tales, the social life of the enslaved and free subalterns is also told and preserved, transforming them into true historical archives.

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Author Biography

Hildebrando de Almeida Cerqueira, Université René Descartes-Sorbonne, Paris V

Mestre em Literatura com a pesquisa sobre a obra de Toni Morrison e a diáspora negra. Professor de Português para estrangeiros e franceses em Paris. Doutor em Antropologia com a tese Esclavage et inventions spirituelles aro-brésiliennes: Du Vudum Lebabimibome aux contes populaires (Paris V), participante do seminário Africa e Colonização africana com Elikia M’Bokolo na Escola de Altos Estudos em Ciências Sociais em Paris (EHESS- Paris), no período de 2005 a 2017. E-mail: hildebrando.cerqueira@gmail.com

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