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This article proposes the discussion of the concept of bodysubject in Merleau-Ponty as a possibility of analysis of Brazilian Afro-Indian territoriality. We start from the conception that the bodies of Brazilian Afro-Indian religious produce territorialities. The body assumes the characteristic of an immediate territory of the religiosity. Religious spatiality is analyzed here by the category of territory. The text includes a conceptual theoretical debate, based on the author's field perceptions in the Candomblé courtyards in the state of Rio de Janeiro. We consider that the bodies control, affect and influence the space in which the ritual (gira or xirê) takes place through gestures and movements. In this way, the power and domain of space (its symbolic conformation) is given by cultural and religious practices through the action of the orixás and entities through incorporation. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to reflect on the relationship between constructed space and living practices, based on the ethnographic material produced in two micro-locations: the Camponesa alley and the pátio do Broas, located in downtown Salvador and Lisbon, respectively. Although these spaces share a similar history, are places of residence of popular segments and exhibit very similar physical forms, they present different ways of living. The empirical data produced in the alley and courtyard analyzed allow us to affirm that neither the places generate ways of inhabiting nor the constructed space engenders a specific content. The practices of living with neighbors derive from other factors, among which we highlight the free time resulting from the work regime of its inhabitants, the property ownership and the conception of house. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]