Mãe Neide Oyá D'Oxum e a influência no turismo gastronômico e afrorreligioso na Serra da Barriga, Alagoas

Abstract

Food plays a fundamental role for tourism in Serra da Barriga (AL): the social and gastronomic actions of Ialorixá Mãe Neide Oyá D’Oxum, through the Baobá restaurant, became a means of publicizing the tours to the Quilombo dos Palmares Memorial Park. Created in mid-2012 when visitation practices intensified in Serra da Barriga, the restaurant's activities contributed to the exaltation of Afro tourism in Alagoas. The project was conceived based on the propagation of Afro-religious food in the gastronomic environments of the State, from higher education institutions to tourist events, as a characteristic of food from the Afro-Alagoan culture and participation of Ialorixá in spaces of power, evidencing the Umbandist identity. and holy food. An approach to the construction of ethnic discourse will be presented through the gastronomy spread by the restaurant and the presence of the ialorixá Neide Oyá D'Oxum as elements of dissemination and enhancement of tourism in Serra da Barriga - AL; in addition to an approach to the construction of the ethnic discourse around the figure of Zumbi dos Palmares and how this discourse is responsible for the advertisement of the place. Thus, I will verify if the gastronomy of the Baobá restaurant and the actions of Mãe Neide Oyá D'Oxum, promoted by tourism, act as a potentiating element of a traditionally Alagoan food.