Forms of sacralization of peasant and indigenous leaders murdered in regions where land disputes are intense

• Grant number: 17/13948-3
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: October 01, 2017
• End date: March 31, 2018
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Rural Anthropology
• Principal Investigator: Emilia Pietrafesa de Godoi
• Grantee: Edimilson Rodrigues de Souza
• Supervisor: Benoit Charles Marie Etienne de L'Estoile
• Host Institution: Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), France
• Associated to the scholarship: 15/20035-9 - OWNERS OF THE FIGHT: Sacralization of peasant and indigenous leaders killed in land conflict areas, BP.DR

Abstract

This project is part of doctoral research investigating the trajectory of religious leaders, unions, peasants and indigenous people, violently killed in areas of intense land conflict in Brazil, and the process turned into martyrs and/or enchanted, focusing on The Earth Pilgrimages, water, forest and hiking in the Martyrs, and the annual meeting of the people Xukuru of the Ororubá. The purpose of this stage of design and research is to conduct an international literature on the anthropological debate that links religion and politics, to put into evidence research dialogue on the ethnographic field conducted between 2011 and 2017, and carry out work on the targeted terrain, through Pedro Casaldáliga memorial visits in Spain and dialogues/interviews with the catholic religious in Spain and France, which acted as mediators and leaders of trainers in conflict zones Land in Brazil, or in the production of visual art objects, "murals of liberation".