Sirè dos saberes: um estudo sobre as culturas de asé no Ilè Asé Omi Larè Ìyá Sagbá

Abstract

Sirè is to play, is the movement made by the orisás when they arrived at the terreiro and in this study sirè is also knowledge, representing the manifestations of the knowledge that flows at the terreiro. This way, the dynamics of the knowledge occurs in relation to the movement of the orisás, it flows in a dynamic way and has the ìtàn and the ancestry as fundamental elements. The terreiro’s knowledge is responsible to constitute the asé’s cultures, a knowledge that has been dialoguing with academia at the same time that creates strategies to an education that fights colonial/modern logic. A life’s knowledge that acts negotiating and avoiding the knowledge’s death, the self’s death and the power’s death. I researched how these cultures have been mobilized as of educational/cultural/artistic activities promoted by the terreiro, sustaining a tradition that values diversity of thinking and living. The objective of this dissertation is to promote and value other ways of producing knowledge.