Chamanismos guaraní contemporáneos en Brasil: un estudio de caso del proceso de transfiguración cultural
Isabel Santana de Rose, Esther Jean Langdon
Revista Colombiana de Antropología June 13, 2013 DOI: 10.22380/2539472x74 (opens in new tab)
Study at a glance
AI-extracted from the abstract| Characteristics | Ethnography Peer reviewed |
|---|---|
| Population | Guarani village Mbiguaçu (Santa Catarina, Brazil) |
| Interventions | ayahuasca other ritual practices |
| Topics | Ayahuasca |
| Keywords | Indigenous Appropriation Ethnology Anthropology Traditional medicine |
| Citations | 5 |
| Key findings | The adoption of ayahuasca and other rituals in the Guarani village Mbiguaçu is part of an ongoing ethnopolitical movement of cultural transfiguration, resulting from dialogue with non-Indian groups and the circulation of concepts from Brazilian public policies and alternative spiritual movements. |
Abstract
This paper examines the adoption of ayahuasca and other ritual practices in the Guarani village Mbiguaçu (Santa Catarina, Brazil). This adoption is the productof the dialogue that has emerged in the ritual performances shared with non-Indian groups and the circulation of concepts and discourses present in Brazilian public policies and alternative spiritual movements. The actors involved in the formation of the network examined here share common ideas and images, such as indigenous knowledge, the ‘ecological’ and ‘spiritual’ native, indigenousness, and ‘traditional medicine’. We demonstrate that the appropriation of these rituals and ideas is part of an ongoing ethnopolitical movement of cultural transfiguration among the Guarani of the Brazilian coast. https://doi.org/10.22380/2539472X74