IN THE RHYTHM OF DRUMS AND MARACAS: TAMBOR DE MINA AND PAJELANÇA IN THE MID-20TH CENTURY IN MARANHÃO

Abstract

This article focuses on Maranhão in the mid-20th Century, when, like other states in Brazil, it is observed that some places of expression of African origins religions begin, albeit timidly, to be seen, positively, as elements of national and regional culture. However, this does not prevent subjects identified with African origin and popular religiosity and religions from continuing to be object of prejudice, discrimination and violence. Faced with this, the povo de santo, a priority target of police persecution and to which is denied even the right to exist, insists on demarcating their Otherness and intervening in the social world.