Ex-votos das Américas

The Catholic tradition of presenting the result of faith in the action or intervention of mystical Catholic Saints or other divine entities, is a cultural heritage that goes back to the pagan peoples of southern Europe and who took peculiar characteristics in Brazil and in Latin America. The book documents reflections about the ex-votos and their significance that goes beyond the decorative or devotional, these objects are the means of expression of a social group severed and sidelined by the hegemonic system and massive communication processes. The authors' approach proposes an exchange between theories and research and incursions into anthropology, museology and other applied social sciences to present a multi-faceted and culturally rich framework in which the ex-votos can be understood also as art, memory and media, full of meanings. In addition, allows the reader a glimpse of how every nation and culture experience ancient traditions of payers of promises and discusses the similarities between the peoples of the Americas, in spite of its own characteristics, which enriches the knowledge of the ex-votiva tradition of those who recognize the cultural value of this tradition today, so much part of Latin Americans. The works are the product of a collection of texts organized by the philosopher, museologist and professor of the Universidade Federal da Bahia, José Cláudio Alves de Oliveira.