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<p>This article discusses the conflict between the mother-of-saint leadership and IPHAN’s ruling attitude, by listing <i>terreiros</i> as national heritage sites. It argues that tensions go beyond the meanings behind Afro-religious community’s physical spaces and its temporal marks. There is another ongoing subtle, complex, and profound debate over protecting and preserving Afro-religious way of life and temples, and, with them, narratives signifying and recognizing Candomblé, its cosmoperception, and its (re)existence as expressions of otherness within Brazil. It also argues about the relations of that with the very concept of Brazilianness and the official construction—in the sense of the nation-state—of this perspective. The article addresses the subject, privileging in the analysis Candomblecist mothers-of-saint’s perspectives. Research was done through <i>terreiro</i> community immersions of ethnographic nature, from 2016 to 2019, besides decolonial revision of theory and of IPHAN’s documentary analysis. Findings reveal a deep-seated distrust among Afro-religious communities toward a historically racist and violent State, leading to strategic, conditional engagements and reinterpretations of heritage-listings on their own terms.</p>

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Terreiro Communities Facing the Brazilian State: Mothers-of-Saint’s Refusal of IPHAN’s Ruling Attitude

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    2025年11月20日

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  • Guilherme Dantas Nogueira,
  • Tânia Mara Campos de Almeida

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This article discusses the conflict between the mother-of-saint leadership and IPHAN’s ruling attitude, by listing terreiros as national heritage sites. It argues that tensions go beyond the meanings behind Afro-religious community’s physical spaces and its temporal marks. There is another ongoing subtle, complex, and profound debate over protecting and preserving Afro-religious way of life and temples, and, with them, narratives signifying and recognizing Candomblé, its cosmoperception, and its (re)existence as expressions of otherness within Brazil. It also argues about the relations of that with the very concept of Brazilianness and the official construction—in the sense of the nation-state—of this perspective. The article addresses the subject, privileging in the analysis Candomblecist mothers-of-saint’s perspectives. Research was done through terreiro community immersions of ethnographic nature, from 2016 to 2019, besides decolonial revision of theory and of IPHAN’s documentary analysis. Findings reveal a deep-seated distrust among Afro-religious communities toward a historically racist and violent State, leading to strategic, conditional engagements and reinterpretations of heritage-listings on their own terms.