O Terreiro de Toré da Boa Vista como espaço sagrado do povo Xukuru do Ororubá, Pesqueira-PE

Abstract

The sacred places are an enviroment of intimal interaction between the subjects and the place, as well between the subjects and themselves, extrapolating the ambit of sacrad and reaching diferente analysis spheres. And it happens with the Terreiro de Toré of Boa vista, situated in the Curral de Boi, in the indigenous territory Xukuru do Ororubá, located in Pesqueira – PE, 215 km away from the capital of Pernambuco. The people in matter has suffered multiple chases and invasions to their territory by the farmers, having their cultural manifests denied. Only after the recapture movements during the 1990’s is that the Xukuru do Ororubá could practice their rituals without being disturbed by the farmers. This way, starts to arise spaces destined to the realization of the rituals, as already said the Terreiro da Boa vista, where the interlaced feelings in the space transcende the relations between individuals and sacred. In this context, the main objective of this work is to analyse the symbolical and affective relations of the Xukuru do Ororubá people in the Terreiro de Toré of Boa vista, thinking the pratices of the Xukuru do Ororubá indigenous during the Toré ceremony. To reach this aim was tracced a methodological trail started by the research of bibliography and thorough by the direct observations in the place and oral sources collected with the subjects considered relevant to the research and that had participated effectively of the Terreiro of Boa vista. The sacred space of the Terreiro of Boa vista praise the territorial identity of the Xukuru do Ororubá people and their indianity and relation with the Enchanted and the Nature. It is a place that reflects the territorial dinamic that surround the individuals that live that place and affirm themselves from it. Studying the indigenous people is breaking the colonial though of homogeneity that surround them and understand the other by your interaction with the space.