Paisagem religiosa e festiva de Nossa Senhora Mãe dos Homens, Juçatuba, São José de Ribamar/MA: um território quilombola

Abstract

This research aims to interpret the religious landscape of the celebration of Our Lady Mother of Men, in the quilombola territory of Juçatuba, São José de Ribamar, Maranhão. In this attempt, the approach that follows is based on the theoretical-methodological paths of Cultural Geography, with emphasis on the Geography of Religion. The landscape of the celebration, in such a way, emerges problematized from various layers of meanings, and taking into account the experiences and field experiences achieved in the twelve days of celebration each year accompanied (2021 and 2022). In these circumstances, seeking phenomenological approximations (DARDEL, 2011), we adopted ethnogeographical practices as a methodology (CLAVAL, 1999), when we delve into the life of the community at parties as a salutary procedure to capture the feeling of communitas (TURNER, 1974) between those people, now that we understand from the first observations we made in that reality. The feeling in question seems to us to be the great driving force behind the landscape of the feast of Our Lady Mother of Men, in Juçatuba, a remaining quilombola community that, from generation to generation, a phenomenon related to ancestry, learns, apprehends and reproduces religious culture on screen