Pompa e requinte: memória visual do candomblé e da umbanda em Montes Claros

Abstract

This work aims to identify the visual representations of Candomblé and Umbanda in the city of Montes Claros in the 1960s. For this, we use imagery materials present in illustrated magazines, periodicals and in family albums to understand discourses and visions produced on these religions. We highlight how external and internal representations and their process of transformation were manifested that placed these religions as part of folkloric manifestations alongside Christian groups in the city. In this way, these ideas were appropriated by the city's elites to the process of modernization and regionalization that was in force at the time.