With Dance and Drum. A Psychocultural Investigation of the Ritual Meaning-Making System of an Afro-Brazilian, Macumba Community in Salvador, Brazil

With Dance and Drum. A Psychocultural Investigation of the Ritual Meaning-Making System of an Afro-Brazilian, Macumba Community in Salvador, Brazil

This paper focuses on the Macumba community's way of making meaning in its Afro-Brazilian cultural context. The community's meaning-making system is analyzed through five central points relating psychosocial function to religious ritual experience. In this Macumba community context ritual,...

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Main Author: Valerie DeMarinis
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Donner Institute 1996-01-01
Series:Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
Subjects:
Dance, Religious
Ritual
Drum
Brazil
Psychology and religion
Afro-Brazilian cults
Online Access:https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67223
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With Dance and Drum. A Psychocultural Investigation of the Ritual Meaning-Making System of an Afro-Brazilian, Macumba Community in Salvador, Brazil
Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
Dance, Religious
Ritual
Drum
Brazil
Psychology and religion
Afro-Brazilian cults
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title With Dance and Drum. A Psychocultural Investigation of the Ritual Meaning-Making System of an Afro-Brazilian, Macumba Community in Salvador, Brazil
title_short With Dance and Drum. A Psychocultural Investigation of the Ritual Meaning-Making System of an Afro-Brazilian, Macumba Community in Salvador, Brazil
title_full With Dance and Drum. A Psychocultural Investigation of the Ritual Meaning-Making System of an Afro-Brazilian, Macumba Community in Salvador, Brazil
title_fullStr With Dance and Drum. A Psychocultural Investigation of the Ritual Meaning-Making System of an Afro-Brazilian, Macumba Community in Salvador, Brazil
title_full_unstemmed With Dance and Drum. A Psychocultural Investigation of the Ritual Meaning-Making System of an Afro-Brazilian, Macumba Community in Salvador, Brazil
title_sort with dance and drum. a psychocultural investigation of the ritual meaning-making system of an afro-brazilian, macumba community in salvador, brazil
publisher Donner Institute
series Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
issn 0582-3226
2343-4937
publishDate 1996-01-01
description This paper focuses on the Macumba community's way of making meaning in its Afro-Brazilian cultural context. The community's meaning-making system is analyzed through five central points relating psychosocial function to religious ritual experience. In this Macumba community context ritual, through dance and drum, serves as the basic multi-dimensional vehicle for psychosocial and spiritual development in the community.  
topic Dance, Religious
Ritual
Drum
Brazil
Psychology and religion
Afro-Brazilian cults
url https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67223
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