TRANSMISSION OF THE UMBANDIST TRADITION: Experience, Memory and Orality
This research has as its issue the study about the transmissibility of the Umbanda tradition through orality, valuing the memory and the experience shared in the daily coexistence and in the rituals. I highlight the fundamental aspect of my insertion as a researcher and umbandista, as a reflexive process in the field of anthropological theories, as well as the opening for ethnography. Based on the ethnography carried out in Tenda de Umbanda Estrela Matutina, it was possible to weave approximations between the transmissibility of the teachings, rituals, ethics, and Umbanda identity with the Benjaminian perspective of collective experience (erfahung), narration, and tradition. I also strive to understand how sharing experiences provides a destination community, based on the contributions of Ecléa Bosi (2009). Therefore, memory, narrativity, tradition, orality, experience and perception of time are mobilized.