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Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive drink used for healing and divination among religious groups in the Brazilian Amazon. 'Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil' is the first scholarly volume in English to examine the religious rituals and practices surrounding ayahuasca. The use of ayahuasca among religious groups is analysed, alongside Brazilian public policies regarding ayahuasca and the handling of substance dependence. 'Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil' will be of interest to scholars of anthropology and religion and all those interested in the role of stimulants in religious practice.
The Excluded Third
In view of the new forays from biology into the Humanities, this book aims not only to demonstrate the inconsistencies of the theory of evolution in addressing cultural dynamics, but also to offer an alternative that begins from a resumption of the dialogue between anthropology and historical materialism in which dialectics reintroduces itself to anthropology from different premises and the role of symbolic language within materialism is reevaluated.
The Other Roots
First published in 1936, the classic work Roots of Brazil by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda presented an analysis of why and how a European culture flourished in a large tropical environment that was totally foreign to its traditions, and the manner and consequences of this development. In The Other Roots, Pedro Meira Monteiro contends that Roots of Brazil is an essential work for understanding Brazil and the current impasses of politics in Latin America. Meira Monteiro demonstrates that the ideas expressed in Roots of Brazil have taken on new forms and helped to construct some of the most lasting images of the country, such as the "cordial man," a central concept that expresses the Ibero-Americ...
From Sea-bathing to Beach-going
In From Sea-Bathing to Beach-Going B. J. Barickman explores how a narrow ocean beachfront neighborhood and the distinctive practice of beach-going invented by its residents in the early twentieth century came to symbolize a city and a nation. Nineteenth-century Cariocas (residents of Rio) ostensibly practiced sea-bathing for its therapeutic benefits, but the bathing platforms near the city center and the rocky bay shore of Flamengo also provided places to see and be seen. Sea-bathing gave way to beach-going and sun-tanning in the new beachfront neighborhood of Copacabana in the 1920s. This study reveals the social and cultural implications of this transformation and highlights the distinctive changes to urban living that took place in the Brazilian capital. Deeply informed by scholarship about race, class, and gender, as well as civilization and modernity, space, the body, and the role of the state in shaping urban development, this work provides a major contribution to the social and cultural history of Rio de Janeiro and to the history of leisure.
On the Emic Gesture
Roy Wagner’s work deals with two fundamental issues in anthropology: how to describe difference, and where to place it in anthropological discourse. His discussion and displacement of anthropological concepts such as ‘group’ and ‘culture’ in the 1970s and 1980s have arguably encouraged a deconstructive undertaking in the discipline. Yet Wagner’s work, although part of the radicalizing move of the 1970s and 1980s in anthropology, was until some years ago not a central reference for anthropological theory. The question Dulley asks throughout her engagement with Wagner’s main essays is whether it is possible for the emic gesture to account for difference within difference without ...
Form and Feeling
Winner, 2022 Association of University Presses Book, Jacket, and Journal Show in the Scholarly Illustrated Category A significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in Brazil Form and Feeling features a collection of essays by noted scholars exploring the sensorial, experience-based, and participatory practices pioneered in the 1950s by artists and poets such as Flávio de Carvalho, Ivan Serpa, Hélio Oiticica, Haroldo de Campos, Mary Vieira, Lygia Pape, Anna Maria Maiolino, Lygia Clark, Waly Salomão, and Emil Forman, among many others. Fourteen thought-provoking essays examine how many of their strategies constituted a pertinent critique of the ...
Ayahuasca Religions
The last two decades have seen a broad expansion of the ayahuasca religions, and it has also witnessed, especially since the millennium, an explosion of studies into the spiritual uses of ayahuasca. Ayahuasca Religions grew out of the need for an ordering of the profusion of titles related to this subject that are now appearing. This publication offers a map of the global production of literature on this theme. Three researchers located in different cities (Beatriz Caiuby Labate in São Paulo, Rafael Guimarães dos Santos in Barcelona, and Isabel Santana de Rose in Florianapolis, Brazil) worked in a virtual research group for a year to compile a list of bibliographical references on Santo Da...
Darcy Ribeiro, uma Utopia
Os oito ensaios de Darcy Ribeiro, uma Utopia buscam avaliar o legado da obra do intelectual e do político e sua pertinência do ponto de vista contemporâneo, do século XXI. Derivados de um seminário no contexto de uma grande exposição celebrando o centenário de seu nascimento, os textos não são homenagens, no entanto, mas reavaliações críticas que levam em conta erros e acertos e o contexto histórico tumultuado em que Darcy foi forçado a atuar – com foco em suas realizações na área da educação (criador das universidade de Brasília e Estadual do Norte Fluminense, dos Cieps no Rio de Janeiro e um dos autores da Lei das Diretrizes e Bases da Educação; ajudou a implantar ...
Signo e desterro
Há tempos que os ensaios clássicos de interpretação do Brasil, escritos nas décadas de 1920 e 1930, vêm alimentando nosso debate intelectual, dentro e fora da universidade. "Raízes do Brasil", de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, está entre os que permanecem nos interpelando e nos ajudando a qualificar a dimensão de processo social que o nosso presente ainda oculta. Como um código, de cuja decifração dependesse a compreensão do peso do passado na configuração do presente e das nossas perspectivas de futuro enquanto sociedade. "Signo e desterro" de Pedro Meira Monteiro vem contribuir imensamente com os estudos do pensamento social brasileiro, desenvolvidos nas ciências sociais, hist...
Terra de índio
O século 19 quis transformar o índio no pobre do Brasil. Esse é o ponto de partida do livro Terra de Índio – Imagens em Aldeamentos do Império, da antropóloga Marta Amoroso. A autora situa o leitor em dois movimentos. Em um primeiro momento, logo depois da chegada da Família Real ao país e da Abertura dos Portos às nações amigas, em 1808, acompanha-se as expedições dos artistas e naturalistas que percorreram trechos bastante intactos da Mata Atlântica, que acolhiam – e acolhem ainda hoje – povos falantes das línguas Jê e Guarani. Em um segundo momento, retrata a criação, em 1845, dos Aldeamentos de Catequese e Civilização dos Índios, concebidos para territorializar...
