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Daimistic reinventions: An ethnography about the alliance between a church of Santo Daime and the Indian people Yawanawá (Pano).

Abstract

This is an ethnography with the theme of the alliance between an urban church of Santo Daime, located in Rio de Janeiro, and the indigenous people Yawanawá (Pano), from the Rio Gregório Indigenous Land, located in Acre, in the municipality of Tarauacá. The research problem is the process of cultural change in the Céu do Mar church, related to innovations in ritual practices and the cosmological system, understood as reinventions of the Santo Daime tradition. In the thesis, I demonstrate how these adaptations and resignifications relate to the sociocultural reality of the social actors of Rio de Janeiro; and syncretic processes of translation and resignification in the midst of a spiritual alliance with the Yawanawá (Pano) indigenous people. I seek to understand the social relations of alliance, which involve symbolic kinship, effective kinship and affinity relations, and an interethnic exchange system involving conversion of debts into different value regimes. I analyze the sociological implications of rituals, in relation to the production of cohesion and the (bodily) fabrication of hybrid social subjects, the allieddaimists or Yawanawá daimists, ritually induced to social action. Demonstrating throughout the thesis that this is a central church in one of the expansionist segments of the Santo Daime, from which comes ritual, aesthetic and cosmological reinventions that circulate among the network of affiliated churches, being an agent of production of differentiations and variations cultural aspects of religion. Predominant dialogue with the theoretical-methodological approach proposed by Max Gluckman (2010) of description and analysis of social situations. On the empirical side, I made participant observation, involving the effort to surprise the familiar (Velho, 1978).