Xirê-orixá: performances do tempo como narrativa do/no/com o corpo para construir educação

Abstract

This work is linked to the postgraduate program in Education, Culture and Communication of the Faculty of Education of Baixada Fluminense, of the State University of Rio de Janeiro. It is part of the research line Education, Social Movements and Differences and was supervised by Professor Dr. Luiz Rufino. Analyzes the xirê-orixá, a public festive rite of Candomblé houses, as a constructive and reconstructive element of memory, capable of founding and breaking restricted notions about time, temporality, and body. Grounded in the philosophy of Exu, it seeks to discuss colonialism and strategies of domination, as well as the tricks created in/of/with the body as maintenance, vivacity, and construction of knowledge. Using the notion of cruzo as a theoretical-methodological orientation, it proposes movements between knowledge and thoughts that cross different ways of being/knowing, highlighting practices from African-Brazilian diaspora contexts present in Candomblé terreiros. The research adopts a "cambono researcher" stance, combining the perspectives of practitioner and researcher. The study concludes that the xirê-orixá transcends common religious understanding, constituting itself as a form of bodily knowledge that creates a fourth time - the time of myth - and functions as a performance that crosses temporalities, enabling the formation of an episteme through the dynamics of body, movement, and voice.