Tambolinguistic and autoethnography: theoretical-methodological possibility for the study of the languages of black afrodiasporic territories

Abstract

This work seeks to present an innovative theoretical possibility in relation to studies of linguistic contact with emphasis on ethnic and historical issues and in dialogue with spirituality. The objective is to propose a path of transdisciplinary linguistic analysis and observation, which comprises the necessary scientific deepening between black raciality and language, considering the fundamental pillar to understand Africanidades is to conceive their ancestral religiosity. The theoretical-methodological basis of this study dialogues with the autoethnographic method (Ellis, 2004), with the conception of ritual language and language of saint (Pessoa de Castro, 1980; Bordieu, 1982; Póvoas, 1989) and the contracolonial studies (Bispo, 2015), also called decolonial/decolonial because they have a common basis related to the prominence of looks from the global south. This linguistic perspective is closely related to sociolinguistics, such as sociology of language and ethnolinguism. However, it advances and differs from these by focusing on the language-spirituality pair, which corresponds nothing to the science of religion, but rather to the intersubjectivity of bodies that share practices and collective representations that remain in resistance, even after humanity’s greatest racial genocide. Thus, by focusing on Brazilian Afrodiasporic territories (terreiros, quilombos, favelas and samba schools), it will be possible to build a collection of materials for various areas of knowledge, breaking with eurocentric investigative models (cartesian and positivist).  Finally, it is expected that these africanist researches of language, in the long term, can minimize the academic racism that exists in science, promoting the heterogeneity of the subjects and being a reference to the promotion of black linguistic-cultural manifestations.