Dying and drinking manicuera
social relations on the day of the deceased
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2596-3147.v1i1p232-249Keywords:
Day of the Dead, Drinking, Sociability, Education, KnowledgeAbstract
The article analyzes the relationship between death and consumption of a drink called manicuera in Salinópolis, Pará. It aims to analyze the preparation of this drink –exclusively consumed at the “day of enlightenment” or the “day of the deceased” –, theknowledgethatcomprisesthepreparationandthe sociability that involves it, configuring the pedagogy of the quotidian. It comes from a field research in a cemetery and its surroundings, where, from observation and interviews, it was possible to describe the day of the dead, the material culture, the knowledge of the manicuera, as well as its transmission to the other generations. It is located at the confluence of education, history and anthropology areas, relying on Ariès (2003), DaMatta (1997) and Brandão (2002). Among several considerations, we point out that the main means of transmission of manicuera’s knowledge is observation or attention (Ingold, 2015), since we observed that learning depends more on an attentive posture than on a didactic action from those who teach. Children watch their mothers and grandparents preparing manicuera so they can continue the tradition of consumption in the day of the dead, thereby strengthening the social relations among the living ones and between them and their deceased ones.
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