Abstract

CAPUTO, Stela Guedes. OBSERVING CLOSELY, TO NARRATE KÉKERÉNOTES ON OUR PHOTOETNOPOETICS WITH CHILDREN FROM TERREIROS. Revista Teias [online]. 2018, vol.19, n.53, pp.36-63.  Epub Feb 19, 2020. ISSN 1982-0305.  https://doi.org/10.12957/teias.2018.34443.

"The terreiro is the world becoming more beautiful," says Mene Viana Cardoso, 3 years old, from Ilê Axé Omi Laare Ìyá Sagbá, a candomblé terreiro, in Santa Cruz da Serra, Duque de Caxias, in Fluminense Lowland. The yards, among them, Candomblé yards (terreiros), preserved and re-signified lifestyles brought from the African Continent during enslavement. Sophisticated knowledge that has crossed the Atlantic and been maintained and reinvented in these space-times. Studies with Terreiros' Children are born from two great negations, or from two great contempts: the first contempt is a hegemonic heritage left by the dominant way in which modernity "considered" the quotidian as a place for reproduction of lower knowledge. The second great contempt is one that marks sociological conceptions and approaches that deny children as a subject of knowledge and social participation, thus silencing them. In an original path, the Kékeré (small in Yoruba) Research Group opposes this double negation in order to reverse and state that, exactly what is considered small/less important (quotidian life) and those who are considered even smaller/less important (children) are vital foundations for understanding the society in which we live, as well as destabilize their deep colonial logic. The purpose of this article is to present some notes of the paths chosen for our studies.

Keywords : Studies With Terreiro's Children; Child; Childhood; Research with quotidian.

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