A moda como linguagem :singularidades e códigos vestíveis no trânsito entre o profano e o sagrado do Candomblé

Abstract

The transits of goods coming from the religious universe of African origins have pierced barriers and transmuted the boundaries between what is profane and sacred. Fashion, understood as language, full of signs, meanings, icon and elements become an important route for such transits. This dissertation, throughout the analysis of field work in three Brazilian city capitals – Salvador. Rio de Janeiro and Porto Alegre – aims to interpret their transits and their redeterminations for the elements of Candomblé that turn into dress codes and thus cross the borders of what is profane and of what is sacred. Therefore, the theories of Peirce (2015) and Leach (1978) are used to refer to the semiotic and anthropological analysis. In order to observe the "desacralization" of the Candomblé objects, this process is contextualized in terms of the postmodernity of Jameson (1996) and Harvey (1992). The ideas of flows and post-colonialism in Mbembe (2014) and Bhabha (1998) were also investigated as well as the individual concepts of Hall (2005), arriving at a new concept of singularities proposed by Albuquerque (2007). Finally, the theories of Certeau (1994) and the elaborations on metamorphoses of space by Pintaudi (2011) were used for a vision of the Public Markets, fundamental spaces of exchange and resignification.