Mestra Paulina e seu caminho: Uma teoria etnográfica da vida dos espíritos

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Ano de defesa: 2023
Autor(a) principal: Mota, Emília Guimarães lattes
Orientador(a): Vieira, Suzane de Alencar lattes
Banca de defesa: Vieira, Suzane de Alencar, Cardoso, Vânia Zikán, Veras, Hermes de Sousa=, Flaksman, Clara Mariani, Filgueira , André Luiz de Souza
Tipo de documento: Tese
Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
Idioma: por
Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal de Goiás
Programa de Pós-Graduação: Programa de Pós-graduação em Antropologia Social (FCS)
Departamento: Faculdade de Ciências Sociais - FCS (RMG)
País: Brasil
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Link de acesso: http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/tede/handle/tede/13399
Resumo: The thesis presents an ethnographic theory of the lives of spirits, those who have chosen to work with and care for, since meeting and conviviality with Mestra Paulina, who wished to "give her name and her path". I met the spirit and medium Ana in an umbanda terreiro in Aparecida de Goiânia (GO) for many years. Working in the line of pombagira and exu, little by little Mestra Paulina began to "talk about herself", confiding that she was a jurema "master". This movement was the trigger for the research project and, by following it, it made it possible to learn about some of the "passages" made by Mestra Paulina. Like in umbanda, Calunga, jurema, pombagira and exu lines, as a mestra, between Goiás and Pernambuco. The field research took place walking with the spirit and paying attention to "speaking of oneself". Between visits to my home and to the Association, the place where she began to give consultations. The work is guided by the questioning of the possibility of talking about and getting to know the lives of spirits in a way that is more than just narratives about the past. It aims to shift from a device known as biography to an ethnographic theory of the life of the spirit in which "life" is freed from an anthropocentric, biological and chronological predicate of time as an arrow. In order to present an ethnographic theory of the life of spirits, the thesis is based on three main movements: the "passages", the "dar nome" and the "correr gira”. They describe variations of Mestra Paulina, relationships, ways of working, compositions, agency out by an extensive and vital capacity of the spirit.They make it possible to describe the life of the spirit as grounded in work-care, in doing, always on the move.The work briefly reflects the participation of dreams and drawings in the research, in order to "continue with the problem", thus contributing to the openings and unquiets provoked by the experience of living and walking with a spirit.