Abstract

GODOI, Emília  and  MELLO, Marcelo Moura. Between intangible beings and persons: an introduction. Etnográfica [online]. 2019, vol.23, n.2, pp.441-446. ISSN 0873-6561.

This special issue brings together articles that approach distinct orders of intersection and participation of the lives of humans and beings as spirits, eshus, pombagiras, encantados, dead, ancestors, caboclos, and many others. The articles here presented approach the co-presence and the participation of these beings in the social world, and how this co-presence and participation are thought and lived in different ethnographical contexts. Addressing these debates, the special issue aims to be an addition to recent studies that, in approaching these beings, propose to think in new terms questions related to history, to politics, to materiality, expanding the field of studies about ritual and religion in anthropology.

Keywords : intangible beings; persons; participation.

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