PRACTICES, KNOWLEDGE AND AGENCIES OF WOMEN IN JURYMEIRES IN ILÉ ASE DAJÒ IYA OMÍ SÀBÁ
ritual; jurema; women; agency.
The jurema is a genuinely northeastern religion, composed by elements that transit between indigenous practices, afro-brazilian and also popular Catholicism. From this context, the following research bring a question that search comprehend how juremeira’s women build their agencies of power, projects and life, intentionally or not (ORTNER, 2006) from the ritual. Therefore, I bring, initially, the matriarch and terreiro founder trajectory, Dona Maria Pinheiro. I build dialog with three women, as well as their masters and pombagiras, in the mission of comprehend and analyze their life trajectories and how occurs transmission of knowledge and practices that happen inside and outside the ritual. I started from a particular ethnography (ABUH-LUGOHD, 2018) for that this writing be realized in a close shape, by their own sayings. With this course, connected by many actresses/actors in building essential social networks to the sacred knowledge, I get out of the ritual and outflow in the daily to analyze important questions inside the religion and social environment: famine agency build by those women from a sacred knowledge.