Olhos brancos sobre o sagrado nego : a construção da africanidade nas imagens de Pierre Verger

Abstract

The dialogue on religions of African origin has mobilized important sectors of the Brazilian Academy since the second half of the twentieth century and intensified in the current century. The research seeks to understand the statement of a look, Pierre Verger (1902-1996), which contributes significantly to the consolidation of an African religious matrix as Candomblé, able to nationalize and articulate how identity reference to the faithful as a reference the construction of a mythical Africa, translated into political discourse to the social movement of black people in Brazil. By analyzing the Pierre Verger's images from the cultural shift concept of the Western world, claiming new values and new looks, which are unveiled at the opening of the images. This process identifies, through the imagery construction and ownership of intellectuals around the artist, a look that says Africanity as defining the cultural and religious experience of blacks in Brazil. So intent establishes a pattern in which the black gains autonomy and appreciation from your body and its sacredness and where miscegenation and the diversity of its culture loses importance.