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  • The Global ETD Search service is a free service for researchers to find electronic theses and dissertations. This service is provided by the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations.
    Our metadata is collected from universities around the world. If you manage a university/consortium/country archive and want to be added, details can be found on the NDLTD website.
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“Subir a pedra, limpar a matéria”: os pajés e os curandeiros Wassu-Cocal / "Climb up the stone, clear the matter": shamans and healers Wassu-Cocal

Nascimento, Willander Ferreira do 26 November 2015 (has links)
This study discusses the practices and the healing rituals of shamans and healers of Wassu-Cocal's tribe in Alagoas, Brazilian's Northeast region. The purpose of this research is to describe the socio-cultural contexts about the transformation from ordinary person to shamans and healers, their healing rituals and the meanings of the disease. This research intends to contribute to highlight the theme of shamanism in the Brazilian Northeast native region, also striving to reconnect this issue to South American ethnology context. / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este trabalho aborda as práticas e os rituais de cura dos pajés e curandeiros Wassu-Cocal, na Zona da Mata de Alagoas, nordeste brasileiro. O objetivo é descrever os contextos socioculturais que envolvem a transformação da pessoa em pajé e curandeira, seus rituais de cura e os significados da doença. A intenção deste trabalho é contribuir para trazer à tona a temática do xamanismo no nordeste indígena num esforço para reaproximar a questão no âmbito da etnologia sul-americana.

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