Guided by Eleguá: Collective Knowledge-Making at the Crossroads

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Authors: Luis Pesce, Anne Cathrin Ziegler
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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