https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/8218 2026-04-17T05:01:11Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44338 Título: VIDA E TRANSCENDÊNCIA: UM ESTUDO SOBRE A CONCEPÇÃO DE MORTE NA CULTURA BALANTA PATCH DA GUINÉ-BISSAU Autor(es): TAVARES, Vânia Virgínia Mendes Correia Primeiro Orientador: OLIVEIRA, Lucas Amaral de Abstract: This dissertation explores the cosmologies of death and the ritual devices of transcendence among the Balanta Patch of Guinea-Bissau, examining how this ethnic subgroup constructs meanings concerning physical finitude and organises ceremonial practices that mediate the passage between the world of the living and the ancestral realm. The study is guided by the hypothesis that, within the Balanta Patch worldview, death does not signify a definitive rupture, nor an absolute end, but rather a relational process of cyclical reintegration into the ancestral sphere, grounded in local ontologies and specific regimes of transcendence. Fieldwork followed an ethnographic approach and was conducted in the community of N’tátilai (João Landim, Cacheu region) across two periods: from 15 to 25 February 2024 and from 5 January to 5 February 2025. In addition to informal conversations, semi-structured interviews were carried out with five interlocutors,primarily elders who are custodians of traditional knowledge,alongside participant observation and field diary entries. The analysis identified three causal categories of death,natural, through witchcraft, and by transgression of spiritual pacts with Irã,each requiring specific ritual procedures. The Sing Ni Gritch ritual (also known as “toka-choro”) emerges as a central ceremony, ensuring communication between the material and spiritual realms and facilitating the deceased’s incorporation into the ancestral collective. This ritual is reserved for those who have completed initiation cycles: fanado (circumcision) for men and marriage for women. The absence of such rites may result in systemic imbalances affecting the living community. The findings reveal a social structure organised by age-based phases that determine ritual status and the type of funeral ceremony. The research also documents mechanisms of selective adaptation that preserve ancestral values amid socio-cultural transformations. In doing so, it contributes to contemporary socio-anthropological debates on African cosmologies, ancestral regimes, and non-Western elaborations of death as mediated through cultural and religious practice. Keywords: Ancestry; Cosmology of Death; Rituals of Transcendence; Balanta Patch; Guinea-Bissau. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Dissertação 2025-08-27T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44123 Título: A democracia descoroada: tradição liberal e pensamento político republicano no final do Oitocentos brasileiro Autor(es): Silva, Anderson Souza Primeiro Orientador: Sanches Filho, Alvino Oliveira Abstract: This dissertation takes as its object the opposition between the concepts of republic and monarchy in the history of Brazilian political thought and analyzes the continuity between the 19th century liberal tradition and the republican political thought. It is assumed that Republicans emerged in the Brazilian political context, not as mere opponents of the monarchy or simple enthusiasts of the new ideas that circulated among the youth of the 1870s, but as interlocutors of the liberal tradition. In this sense, this investigation deals with democratic republicanism, expressing the era that delimited a specific group of sympathizers with the ideas of the Manifesto of 1870. The objective is to treat it as a political and intellectual movement that, despite the novelty of its discourse, is founded on the traditional aspiration of the Liberal Party of the Empire for a parliamentary, accountable and federalist government. The empirical cut is the essays listed as records of the history of Brazilian political thinking. The plot was built from a political debate that took place at the beginning of the 1860s between Zacarias de Góis and Vasconcelos and the Visconde of Uruguay around the Moderating Power, through the analysis of the Tavares Bastos case and their relationship, from the beginning devout, then cetic, with the monarchy, and finally, check us out theorists of republicanism, Assis Brasil and Alberto Sales, authors whose intention is to print the Brazilian political thought to asymmetrical antithesis between republic, modern and liberal, and monarchy, obsolete and absolutist. As a theoretical-methodological support, this work relies on Mark Bevir's perspective on the logic of the history of ideas, especially the heuristic meaning that he confers to the terms tradition and dilemma. It is concluded that democratic republicanism both revitalizes the themes of the liberal tradition of the empire in a new language and style of scientific thought, as it responds to the problematic image that exists among the liberals, after crisis of 1868, gives monarchy as a political system outdated and incapable of reform-it has in the sense of establishing itself, definitively, as self-government regime. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais Tipo: Dissertação 2025-06-27T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/44043 Título: Neoliberalização do direito do trabalho? Homologação do acordo extrajudicial trabalhista como elemento de corrosão do direito de acesso à justiça e indicador de precarização social do trabalho no Tribunal Regional do Trabalho da 5ª Região Autor(es): Farias, Thiago Santana de Primeiro Orientador: Silva, Jair Batista da Abstract: This research analyzes the impacts of the institute of Homologation of Extrajudicial Settlements, introduced by Law No. 13,467/2017, on access to justice and labor relations within the scope of the Regional Labor Court of the 5th Region (TRT5), covering the period from 2010 to 2024. The examination was supported by a theoretical framework that defines neoliberalism as a normative rationality and a political project for the restoration of class power. The research advances to investigate whether extrajudicial settlements have become an indicator of the social precarization of labor, supporting the thesis that the Labor Reform imposed obstacles to litigation, initially through restrictions on free justice and the collection of succumbency fees, forcing workers to renounce their right to sue and accept disadvantageous agreements to guarantee funds of a subsistence nature. Drawing on duly examined sociological concepts, the research situated the homologation of extrajudicial settlements as a seventh type of social precarization of labor, characterized by submission to “coercive harmony” and the institutionalization of sham litigation, in which the payment of undisputed amounts is used by capital as a bargaining chip to obtain the general and unrestricted discharge of the employment contract. The research conducts a historical investigation of the institute of conciliation, aiming to demonstrate that its purpose is not to promote social peace, but to guarantee celerity to the judiciary and, within the labor process, to reinforce labor precarization. The data presented reveal significant growth in voluntary jurisdiction procedures, predominantly in sectors with high labor turnover, distorting the essence of the legal transaction. A massive adherence to the homologation of agreements is observed, noting an omission by the judiciary in setting aside the general discharge clause in sentences rendered in HTE proceedings, corroborating the legal certainty desired by the employer class. Editora / Evento / Instituição: UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA Tipo: Dissertação 0009-01-01T00:00:00Z https://repositorio.ufba.br/handle/ri/43860 Título: 'Uma igreja como qualquer outra': trajetórias lgbtqiapn+ e reinvenção pentecostal na igreja cristã contemporânea em Salvador/BA Autor(es): Santos, Lucas Vinicius Oliveira dos Primeiro Orientador: Rabelo, Miriam Cristina Marcilio Abstract: This dissertation analyzes the emergence of the Igreja Cristã Contemporânea (ICC) in Salvador, investigating how LGBTQIAPN+ subjects, historically marginalized by traditional evangelical Christianity, appropriate Pentecostal religious grammar to construct new forms of religious belonging. In a context where Pentecostalism is frequently associated with conservative discourses and the exclusion of sexual and gender dissidence, the ICC stands as a unique empirical case by articulating an inclusive theology with a Pentecostal aesthetic, liturgy, and cosmology. This research is based on ethnography, through participant observation and in-depth interviews conducted from 2017 onwards, intensified with the institutional consolidation of the church in Salvador in 2019. Organized into three chapters, the dissertation reconstructs the historical trajectory of inclusive Christian churches and situates the ICC within this movement, analyzes the Pentecostal ethos as a pedagogy of the body and emotions, and examines, through biographical trajectories, the processes of stigma management, institutional rupture, and reconstruction of the religious self. It argues that the ICC operates not only as a refuge, but as a space of symbolic suture, in which Christian faith and sexual dissidence can be articulated without exclusion, highlighting the capacity of Pentecostalism to renegotiate its moral boundaries in contemporary Brazil. Editora / Evento / Instituição: Universidade Federal da Bahia Tipo: Dissertação 2026-01-14T00:00:00Z