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Pilgrimage and Healing
Bikers converge at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Thousands flock to a Nevada desert to burn a towering effigy. And the hopeless but hopeful ill journey to Lourdes as they have for centuries. Although pilgrimage may seem an antiquated religious ritual, it remains a vibrant activity in the modern world as pilgrims combine traditional motives—such as seeking a cure for physical or spiritual problems—with contemporary searches for identity or interpersonal connection. That pilgrimage continues to exercise such a strong attraction is testimony to the power it continues to hold for those who undertake these sacred journeys. This volume brings together anthropological and in...
Spirits with Scalpels
“The first time I witnessed a Spiritist surgery, a young man named Jose Carlos Ribeiro inserted a used scalpel taken from a tray that I was holding, and plunged it into the eye of an elderly man. The patient did not move....” Decades of fieldwork later, Sidney Greenfield presents a riveting ethnography of the complex world of religious healing in Brazil that challenges readers to grapple with the most fundamental concepts of anthropology and cross-cultural experience. In a major contribution to cultural biology, he analyses the complex social, economic, and political landscape of Brazil to understand dramatic healing practices that seem to defy medical explanation. This engrossing and provocative book will put students and scholars alike on the edge of their seats.
Os Cavalcantes
Este livro conta a história da família Cavalcanti, desde sua origem na Europa e no Brasil até chegar aos seus descendentes nas cidades de Pedra Branca e Tauá no Ceará.
Viruses and Reproductive Injustice
Brazil's Zika outbreak revealed extreme health disparities and reproductive injustice across racial and socioeconomic lines. Brazil's 2015 Zika outbreak led to severe illnesses for many and the birth of several thousands of children with severe brain damage. Even though mosquito-borne diseases such as the Zika virus affect people across society, these children were born almost exclusively to poor, and usually non-white, women. In Viruses and Reproductive Injustice, Ilana Löwy explores the complicated health disparities and reproductive injustice that led to these cases of congenital Zika syndrome. Löwy examines the history of the outbreak in Brazil and connects it to broader questions conc...
Anthropological Enquiries Into Policy, Debt, Business And Capitalism
This volume explores current issues in national and international policy, business and capitalism and economic theory and behavior specifically pertaining to Brazil. The underlying theme running through the collection is the steady encroachment of neoliberalism into economic policy and practice, and the impact this has had on everyday ways of life.
Uma ponta, um ponto
Antonio Candido dizia que a literatura no Brasil, mais do que a filosofia e as ciências humanas, ocupava o lugar central na "vida do espírito". Podemos expandir o que se entende como literatura para abarcar a música. Decerto a música brasileira é um repositório inesgotável de recursos de construção de brasilidades. Tanto como narradora, ufanista ou crítica, da história nacional quanto comentadora do cotidiano presente e mesmo como fonte de imaginação de futuros. Por isso o interesse, cada vez mais vivo, das ciências sociais por essa produção criativa. O livro do antropólogo Caio Gonçalves Dias escolhe abordar o tema a partir do que o autor denomina um "espírito etnográfic...
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