A razão barroca do patrimônio baiano: contos de tesouro e histórias de ossadas no Centro Histórico de Salvador

Authors

  • John F. Collins CUNY Graduate Center

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012008000100002

Keywords:

patrimony, race, religion, historicity, Pelourinho

Abstract

This article rethinks the relations between space, historicity, and religious-racial identity in the Historical Center of Salvador, Bahia. Brazil has long been known (and seen itself) as a nation"of the future" and a supposed "racial democracy". In Bahia these ideologies draw strength from government attempts to appropriate Candomblé, popular culture in general, and historical and cultural patrimony. But since the 1990s a striking emphasis on "roots" has appeared in racial ideologies, urbanism, and religion. This socio-historical conjuncture permits us to understand better, and in a novel anthropological manner, changes in religiosity and racial politics: The growth of Pentecostalism and black consciousness in Salvador has been explained in a number of political economic and symbolic ways but in this article I work to link the two via a growing popular interest in heritage and the crystallization of ostensibly popular memories as national possessions. This article thus analyzes a"hermeneutics of depth" in the spheres of religion, race, and heritage. In other words, it focuses on related "semiotic ideologies" that influence the ways the state as well as its citizens link evidence and truths and exteriorities and interiorities.

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Published

2008-01-01

Issue

Vol. 51 No. 1 (2008)

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How to Cite

Collins, J. F. (2008). A razão barroca do patrimônio baiano: contos de tesouro e histórias de ossadas no Centro Histórico de Salvador . Revista De Antropologia, 51(1), 21-65. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0034-77012008000100002