Corpo e peregrinação: diálogos entre técnica e emoção. um estudo na Zona da Mata Mineira

Abstract

Pilgrimage has been showed by several authors as a journey of a modern person in search connection to a sacred or yet, a human with a feeling of a sacred connection. However, during this pilgrimage we can see that since Mauss (1925) we call body technics dimension in which learning, transmission and perfectioning happen before, during and after travel. Efficient traditional action, as Mauss (1925) defines, and it depends of learning, the body technics take in the Bourdieu (1994) works the properties of been incorporated. In this point of view, the pilgrimage can be thinking as an interchange space of learning and body habits, called by Bourdieu of practical reason, that nothing owe to the intellect or a debate reason. Transmitted or introduced without pass by language dimension, but practical, the body habits involved in pilgrimage is my investigation object. Methodologically this is a research of qualitative way that gets anthropology relationship. Through the field work, observation and open interviews, qualified research, I look for understand the transmission and learnig process of body technics ( Mauss, 1925) or habits incorporation (Bourdieu, 1994) in a pilgrimage path named “Caminhos da Piedade”. The path that I am looking for is 21 kilometers long, in between Cataguases, MG and Piacatuba, MG cities. My question is to know how the religion experience pilgrimage lived deeply for a group of people that the physical and emotional get to the body technics learning to help them in this journey and how the body and emotion support in the field performance, the pilgrimage. In this way, the main object of this research is to see how is built the pilgrimage body and emotions in some ritual context, in the way that, after this social transformation and by communitas moment, has the body modified and high emotions to get from Piacatuba into Nossa Senhora da Piedade. Analyze the body, see how the pilgrimage body is build and how its holds together with its emotions, felt and expressed, in the field is my research object.