As transformações no matriarcado nagô nos candomblés do estado do rio de janeiro (séculos XX e XXI):

a figura do homem no comando dos axés

Abstract

The article presents a data sampling on candomblés Rio de Janeiro in the amount of male leaders is larger than the female. The association of 19 to 14 allows us to analyze this transformation by the historical bias in the conceptual prism of 'matriarchy Nago "prepared by the researcher Ruth Landes (2002). For this author was inherent in the Bahian Candomble the Decade 1930 she analyzed by the woman's role in her direction, which stretched trance, development and liturgical dances rites. On the other hand, authors such as Peter Fry (1982) and Patricia Birman (1995) allow us in this text to discuss the issue and understand how the male, not in proclaiming the issues of sexuality, has gained ground in a historical process of acceptance of these in leadership Axés, which can be seen in the data presented to Rio de Janeiro.