Dramas sociais e comunalidades:

encruzilhando Victor Turner, o Mayab e a pandemia covid-19

Abstract

The validity of Victor Turner’s legacy traced with the Ndembu, in Zambia, has crossed borders. The arena of this analysis is the confrontation with the Covid-19 Pandemic, a pandemic that is personified in the condition of shadow and that reveals conflicts, so I propose to think about it with reference to the current Mayab, better known by the name of Yucatán, region of Mayan reference. The Mayan people who are involved in this analysis are a people who transit and live between rural communities, urban areas and macro-national borders, and draw in the human landscape the portrait of an motley society with its tensions resulting from the social formation inherited from the colonial conquest and the establishment of the National States. Aim to reflect the method on itself, as possibilities and limits, using concepts from Turner: social drama, shadow, affliction, multivocalities, communities, schisms and continuities. At the risk of cultural translation, more than just possible, it is powerful and fruitful to reflect on this pandemic and its directions, contextualized in the Mayab taking as a parameter Turner's reflection on the Ndembu method.