“Rezas com mato”: registro do ofício de rezas com ervas na comunidade quilombola de baixa grande

Abstract

The present work deals with the of the office of record prayer with herbs, cultural heritage left by ancestors that today is with a high degree of forgetfulness of the present generation. A tradition that is present through orality. The office of the prayers is common in the community, but there are three factors threatening the culture, which we will deal with with emphasis throughout the work, in addition to the exposition of the office. The factors are the agents of several other religions that are not of African matrix, such as Neo-Pentecostals, which results from the little use of the prayers office by the population of the quilombola community of Baixa Grande. Another factor is the disinterest of young people in learning the trade, which we can perceive from the lack of dialogue with the elders, which in this work is defended from the understanding of the importance of this dialogue by the African philosophy leading us to consider the question of the decolonization of these individuals, in a specific way I deal with an in-depth look at the way of creation and education of the individuals that occupy this space, seeing that there is the interference of the imposition of religious factors in the formation of these subjects. One more factor that we can point out is the performance of scientific medicine that is concretized as something fundamental and only true, that in a way not perceived by users obfuscates the veracity of the trade.