PhD in social anthropology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. He holds a doctorate in the University of California San Diego (UCSD) program of anthropology. He was a visiting researcher at the Global Health Institute of UCSD in the United States and in Ciesas in Mexico. He completed postdoctoral studies in the department of philosophy and religion studies at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is currently a permanent professor at the Unicamp Postgraduate Program in Anthropology. He coordinates the research project "Institutional Spirituality", based in Unicamp and supported by FAPESP in the Young Researcher modality, and is a member of the board of directors of the Association of Social Scientists of the Mercosur Religion (2015-2018) His works include the editor and author of the Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions (ed Springer), author of the books On the Nature Trail, eds N.Science Publishers, 2015) and of the spirit in health (Ed Libertarians, 2018), besides the organization, among others, of the works: Conservatives, Fascisms and Fundamentalisms (Ed. Unicamp, 2018), How things Matter: a material approach to religion (eds., UFRGS, in press), and Entre trópicos : Diálogos de estudios Nueva Era entre México y Brasil (Casa Chata, 2018) (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The fundamental issue of this research project is the increasing forms of legitimation of the spirituality on the official health field. Precisely, it is a question of investigating the way in which this category has been incorporated by secular institutions and, with that, it has been routinized in official contexts of attention to health. To do so, our focus of empirical interest will b…
The purpose of this doctoral research is to investigate how black women and/or those from the lower classes, mobilized by their experiences, manage notions of "good birth" (PULHEZ, 2015). Part of the fieldwork has already been carried out, covering different levels and services for prenatal, childbirth and postpartum care in the SUS, in the Metropolitan Region of Campinas. Attentive to em…
The aim of this research is to analyze the development of disciplines dedicated to the relationship between health and spirituality in undergraduate medicine in Brazilian universities focusing on changes or new modalities in the notion of person. For this purpose it is proposed to inquire the context of the emergence of the subjects, the professional trajectory in the theme of the respons…
This research is dedicated to identify and analyze the various forms of officialization of non-biomedical health practices in the Brazilian public health system, establishing a comparison between the National Policy on Integrative and Complementary Practices of the SUS (PNPIC) and The National Policy of Health Care to Indigenous Peoples (PNASPI). Part of the project "Spirituality Institut…
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The purpose of this research is to understand experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and puerperium in Valle del Cauca, Colombia. The trajectory of pregnancy, childbirth and the puerperium of two Afro-Colombian and popular-class women with different experiences will be analyzed: one assisted by a traditional midwife in a rural town and the other giving birth in a hospital in the capital, Ca…
The fundamental theme of this study are the uses, appropriations and various repercussions of the category of spirituality in the field of health. It involves investigating how this category acquired legitimacy and became a constant subject of research in the medical sciences. To do so, I will use as a starting point the daily work of and the results of the studies by Brazilian and Dutch …
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