Guided by Eleguá: Collective Knowledge-Making at the Crossroads
Abstract
At every crossroads lies an opportunity: a moment to pause, to listen, and to imagine otherwise. In Afro-diasporic Candomblé cosmologies, Eleguá is the guardian of such thresholds. He opens paths, disrupts certainties, and reminds us that no future is ever predetermined. Futures emerge in encounters between people and places, between memory and imagination, between ancestral knowledge and academic inquiry. Seen through this lens, the crossroads also become a site of collective knowledge-maki...
Fields of Study & Subjects
Race
Identity
and Education in Brazil
Afro-Latin American Studies
African cultural and philosophical studies
Publication details
- Journal / source
- Hypotheses (OpenEdition)
- Publication date
- 20 January 2026