Abstract
Through an ethnography with the Pataxó inhabitants of the Boca da Mata village (Terra Indígena Barra Velha do Monte Pascoal, in Porto Seguro, Bahia), the general objective of this research project is to understand the ways in which the Pataxó relate to a category specific other-than-human beings: the saints and "caboclos"/"enchanted" ones that populate his cosmology, and that we can defin…