Sílvia Aguiar Carneiro Martins

Gender and Reproduction

Embodiment among the Kariri-Shocó of Northeast Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

This ethnographic study was conducted among the Kariri-Shocó, an indigenous people of Northeast Brazil. The research focused on Kariri-Shocó shamanism as a medical knowledge. The interrelation between gendered embodiment and shamanism provided the possibility of observing how Kariri-Shocó specialized knowledge relates to gendered embodiment and female embodied subjectivity. Kariri-Shocó shamanic specialists explain that the body opens during sexual intercourse and when women experience menstrual and post-delivery blood fluxes. I describe three different kinds of Kariri-Shocó cure-healing rituals which have the purpose of closing the patient s body. The reza (prayer) ritual is one of the first steps that Kariri-Shocó people take towards cure-healing processes. Specialists experience embodiment during cure-healing rituals, when the nature of the patient s health problem is discovered, diagnosed, and treated. I have discussed and demonstrated that Kariri-Shocó knowledge of the body relates to the openness and closedness of the body, which provides basis for sexual differences perceptions and experiences intertwined with gender embodiment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9783847300830
• ISBN-10: 3847300830
• Artikelnr.: 36889338

Autorenporträt

Sílvia A. C. Martins works in the Universidade Federal de Alagoas/UFAL as a professor and researcher since 1992. She has conducted several studies on topics including shamanism among indigenous groups, and urban shamanism, which is on the ritual use of ayahuasca and kambo. Also, she has produced ethnographic films on urban shamanistic practices