Images of religion in a Mangueira's carnival

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2022.185745

Keywords:

Mangueira, Religion and performance, Religion and carnival, Samba schools, Religious materialities

Abstract

A photo essay containing images taken behind the scenes of the Mangueira samba school parade from 2020, whose theme was The Truth Will Set You Free!’ The school proposed a modern carnivalized reading of the life of Christ, depicting him with faces from subalternized groups of contemporary Brazil. More than a documentation, the images in this essay offer a reinterpretation of the parade’s visuality, providing an anthropological reading of an exemplary case of carnivalization of the religious, while also highlighting the ‘staged’ aspects of the festive performance and the social critique that it encompasses.

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  • Renata de Castro Menezes, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

    Renata de Castro Menezes holds a PhD (UFRJ, 2004) and MA (UFRJ, 1996) in Social Anthropology from the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. She undertook a doctoral research period at EHESS in Paris and a postdoctorate at the Center for Religion and Media of New York University. She is currently associate professor of the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and a researcher funded by CNPq and the Rio de Janeiro State Research Support Foundation (FAPERJ). Her research focuses on the interfaces between religion, rituals, materialities, symbolic forms and patrimonies. At the Museu Nacional she coordinates the Laboratory for the Anthropology of the Ludic and the Sacred (Ludens/MN/UFRJ) and forms part of the Complex Societies Studies Nucleus (NESCOM). She is a corresponding member of CéSor – EHESS. Email: renata.menezes@mn.ufrj.br  

  • Edilson Pereira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

    Edilson Pereira holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Museu Nacional (UFRJ, 2014) and an MA in Sociology and Anthropology from IFCS (UFRJ, 2008), both at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. He undertook a doctoral research period at EHESS in Paris and a postdoctorate at the University of Barcelona with a visual anthropology project on the Seville Holy Week – the material from which formed the essay ‘Caixa-preta sevilhana,’ awarded the IX Pierre Verger Prize of the RBA (2018). Currently he is an associate professor at the School of Communication of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and associate research at Ludens (MN/UFRJ) and MARES (UFRGS). He coordinates the extension project Sagrados (UFRJ). His research focuses on the interfaces between religion, art, imagery and memory practices. He is a member of the Communication Committee (2021/2022) of the Brazilian Anthropology Association. Email:  edilson.pereira@eco.ufrj.br

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2022-08-30

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2022)

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Gesture, image and sounds

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Menezes, Renata de Castro, and Edilson Pereira. 2022. “Images of Religion in a Mangueira’s Carnival”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 7 (1): e185745. https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2022.185745.