Currents of knowledge

The Santo Daime bailado as danced resistance against epistemicide

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Mots-clés :

ayahuasca, bailado, choreography, epistemicide, Santo Daime

Résumé

Santo Daime, an ayahuasca religion from the Brazilian Amazon, liturgically mobilizes a group dance called the bailado. Emerging in the 1930s from precarious circumstances instigated by rubber boom cycles of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Santo Daime has proven resistant against global systems of epistemicide, the systematic killing off of knowledge forms (SANTOS, 2014). I argue the bailado is key to this resistance as corporeal self-knowledge choreographically positioning participants as both audience and performer. In this paper, teachings from Santo Daime hymns and eighteen years of participant observation are drawn upon to support this argument through choreographic analysis.

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Biographie de l'auteur

Ana Flecha, University of California, Santa Cruz – UCSC, California, United States of America

Ana Flecha is a PhD student in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She completed her undergraduate degree from Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University, with an emphasis in dance and theater.

Publiée

2023-07-06

Comment citer

Flecha, A. (2023). Currents of knowledge: The Santo Daime bailado as danced resistance against epistemicide. Révue Brésilienne d’Études De La Présence, 13(3), 1–26. Consulté à l’adresse https://seer.ufrgs.br/index.php/presenca/article/view/128060

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Dance, violence et conflit

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