Alterity and mediation: processes of construction of the ‘other’ in catholic and protestant universes in Brazil and Africa

• Grant number: 08/10758-0
• Support Opportunities: Research Grants - Young Investigators Grants
• Start date: March 01, 2010
• End date: February 28, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Theory of Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Melvina Afra Mendes de Araújo
• Grantee: Melvina Afra Mendes de Araújo
• Host Institution: Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated researchers: Eva Lenita Scheliga ; Iracema Hilário Dulley
• Associated research grant(s): 11/07003-0 - Around the 'formation processes', AV.BR; 11/07004-6 - Utopies, heterotopies and some mediation processes, AV.BR
• Associated scholarship(s): 10/13949-0 - Codes of mediation in encodings of anthropologists and missionaries of the Consolata: an analysis of the meanings of the Yanomami, BP.MS; 11/07618-4 - Constructing otherness: relations between priests, pastors and shamans in anthropological and historical description, BP.IC; 10/18896-2 - Signs of mission: about the process of constitution of Brazilian Sign Language (Libras), BP.PD; 09/11240-7 - Ethnographies on the Yanomami: comparison between the missionary production and the anthropological production., BP.IC

Abstract

By analyzing the relation between catholic and protestant missionaries and African and American populations, we intend to shed light on the debate concerning the possible constructions of conceptions about the 'other' in contexts of intercultural relations where such conceptions result from processes of mediation. (AU)