RT Article
T1 “Forest medicines,” Kinship Alliances, and Equivocations in the Contemporary Dialogues between Santo Daime and the Yawanawá
JF Anthropology of consciousness
VO 33
IS 2
SP 279
OP 306
A1 Platero, Lígia Duque
A1 Rose, Isabel Santana de 1980-
LA English
PB American Anthropological Association
YR 2022
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1818742039
AB In this paper, we describe the spiritual and kinship alliances between heads of an urban Santo Daime church from Rio de Janeiro and some leaders of the Yawanawá people from the Amazonian region. We suggest that these alliances involve exchanges and dialogical relationships that hold different meanings for the diverse social actors that take part in them. Further, we argue that equivocation and functional misunderstandings have an important role in these multidirectional dialogues. Based on this case study, we approach the Yawanawá strategies for capturing otherness, and the insertion of the daimistas in the indigenous sociality networks. We focus especially on the Yawanawá mode of producing kin by capturing non-indigenous people and their participation in exchange networks that encompass multiple regimes of value. From the daimista point of view, we describe these relationships using the native category of “eclecticism.” We suggest that the daimistas attempt to translate the Yawanawá shamanic knowledge and the consumption of the “forest medicines,” experiencing the performance of “becoming indigenous.”
K1 Equivocation
K1 Santo Daime
K1 Yawanawá
K1 “forest medicines”
K1 Shamanism
DO 10.1111/anoc.12160