HIBRIDAÇÃO BANTU: O PERCURSO CULTURAL ADOTADO POR UM POVO.

Abstract

The present study aims to reevaluate the importance that enslaved Africans of matrix Bantu had in the consolidation of Brazilian culture. With great effort the ethnology and the anthropology Brazilian reattach the cultural paper of black in the construction of national patrimony. The researchers involved in African studies, especially they understand that the religion of slaves was not simply absorbed by the hegemonic Western Christianity. The black retained their specific beliefs by it is creating a variety of strategies, and after the abolition of slavery, they founded their own spaces of African worship in Brazil. The intellectuals, entering into enclosure, relied to analyze and describe the cultic and theological organization of an African ethnological segment, the ioruban, that they are depreciating the other black racial filaments have also been introduced in our country, under the charge of being recurring groups to syncretism . With the advance of research, Brazilian anthropology still opens timidly, the valorization process of blacks owned by noniorubanans matrixes. We are looking for in this thesis, actuating this current, we are also rescuing the value of African Bantu lineage, one of the marginalized groups by Brazilian ethnographic production. They are influencing the congadas, the formation of Umbanda and Angolans Candomblés, the Bantu attest to their cultural contribution for Brazil, even raising the banner of hybridization.