What do the "ritual interactions" tell us about the "Amerindian perspectivism" and vice-versa?

• Grant number: 13/21240-0
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Post-doctor
• Start date: August 01, 2014
• End date: March 31, 2015
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
• Principal Investigator: Marta Rosa Amoroso
• Grantee: Fabiana Maizza
• Supervisor: John Michael Houseman
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 13/03977-5 - The peccary-women: body metamorphose and Jarawara feminine initiation ritual, BP.PD

Abstract

This project aims to analyze the body transformations of the young girl in the Jarawara initiation ritual by the simultaneous use of the theories of perspectivism, by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro, and of ritual interactions, by Michael Houseman. At first, I will think of the initiate's body focusing on the relations in the rite, assuming that all the Jarawara Others may be present in the exchanges, interactions and ritual performances. In a second step, I will concentrate in the rite as a body metamorphosis and thus seek a dialogue between the ritual and other animistic practices where there is perspective exchange: disease, shamanism, contact and hunting. (AU)