Chamanismos guaraní contemporáneos en Brasil: un estudio de caso del proceso de transfiguración cultural
Revista Colombiana de Antropología June 13, 2013 Isabel Santana de Rose, Esther-Jean Langdon 5 citations
In the Guarani village Mbiguaçu (Santa Catarina, Brazil), the adoption of ayahuasca and other ritual practices results from dialogue with non-Indian groups during shared ritual performances and from the circulation of concepts in Brazilian public policies and alternative spiritual movements. Actors in this network share ideas such as indigenous knowledge, the 'ecological' and 'spiritual' native, indigenousness, and 'traditional medicine'. This appropriation is part of an ongoing ethnopolitical movement of cultural transfiguration among the Guarani of the Brazilian coast.