Between the ethnographic 'come and go': on religious practice and research experience
Candomblé
Biography
Religion
This work trajectories traversed by some people from the terreiro of candomblé (place where the candomblé rituals take place) to the academy. They are academic trajectories of people who depart from the spaces of participation and belonging of candomblé to go towards the academy and end up making ethnographic incursions in contexts of the Afro-Brazilian religion of which they are adepts. Biographical methodologies were debated and experimented by develop the research and writing exercises. These exercises attend to the contributions of ethnobiographies and the dialogues between ethnography and biography, as well as possible keys for the treatment of trajectories between terreiro and academy. Thus, in addition to the aforementioned methodological discussions, the study draws the motives that leads the subjects to the experience of academic research, the conflicts that leads to compose the processes of their research and criticism of exercises and academic spaces as well as, the participation of saints in their understandings about candomblé. Finally, the work attentive for as, through ethnographic evidence, the particular formation of this research looks composed of people from within the candomblé and the epistemological elements that compose it.