Bachelor's and teaching degree student in Social Sciences at the University of São Paulo. Member and researcher at the Center for Studies of Contemporary Religiosities and Black Cultures (CERNe-USP) and at Metis: Arts and Semantics of Creation and Memory. Interested in the fields of Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Indigenous religions; Indigenous Ethnology; Anthropology of Performance and Expressive Forms; Collective Memory; Kinship and Care Relations; Orality and Traditional Knowledge. E-mail: diego.mendes@usp.br (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This research project aims to interpret the role that food offerings, or "saint foods", play in the cosmoperception of African-based religions by analyzing the ritualistic processes that involve: 1. The relationship between entities and their preferred votive foods; 2. The preparation of these in the ritual kitchen (choice of ingredients, preparation techniques, people consecrated for thi…
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