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This paper has the objective of articulating two related institutions, the mandjuandades of Guinea-Bissau and the Irmandade da Boa Morte in Bahia. The study is an approach to research themes, a result of a joint work combining scientific, ethical, and political interests, with the goal of making connections between, on the one hand, gender, memory, education, and Afro-Brazilian identity issues, and on the other, museological theory and practice, taking into consideration the social importance of the museum in the valorization of Afro-Brazilian sociocultural dynamics, in the promotion of their self-esteem and in the practice of their citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is based on reflections and studies derived from a research trip experience to Paris, France, in which the (supposed) exoticism and Brazilian cordiality were under scrutiny. Carnival, soccer, natural spontaneity, women's eroticism (and exoticism), among other aspects, produce reifying and essentializing images of what is or would be the Brazilian identity. The paper approaches mainly the work of Sergio Buarque de Holanda, "Raízes do Brasil", characterized above all, by the idea of cordiality as the Brazilian contribution to civilization. Would the work of Buarque de Holanda be an example of our "sociology of the non authenticity"? Would Brazil be a country condemned to an imitation or an example of authenticity? These are the types of question that punctuate the debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]