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Dialogues between Amazonia and Mesoamerica: indigenous christianity and shamanism

Grant number: 23/04263-8
Support Opportunities:Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
Start date: January 06, 2024
End date: June 05, 2024
Field of knowledge:Humanities - Anthropology - Indigenous Ethnology
Principal Investigator:Geraldo Luciano Andrello
Grantee:Leon Terci Goulart
Supervisor: Pedro Pitarch Ramon
Host Institution: Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). São Carlos , SP, Brazil
Institution abroad: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), Spain  
Associated to the scholarship:20/09294-0 - Maturacá: cosmopolitical transformations and funerary rituals in an Yanomami regional group, BP.DR

Abstract

The objective of this project is to develop the main themes of my doctoral research, which deals with the social and cosmopolitical transformations being experienced by the Yanonami of Maturacá (São Gabriel da Cachoeira, Amazonas). In this context, I investigate the ongoing relations between the Yanonami and Christianity, that is, the process of shamanic translation of Christian practices, which gains expression in the recent reworking of funerary rituals in Maturacá. Through a research internship abroad, at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain, under the supervision of Pedro Pitarch Ramón, a reference in the ethnology of the Mesoamerican region, my intentions are to deepen, based on my ethnographic data and on the specialized literature available, the themes of indigenous Christianity and shamanism. With this internship, I plan to expand the dialogue between the ethnology of the lowlands of South America and Mesoamerican ethnology, in order to reflect on the particularities of what happens in Maturacá in comparison with other Yanomami contexts, as well as to improve the writing of the doctoral thesis and contribute to the field of ethnology more broadly. (AU)

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