Ancestral knowledge and the cosmopolitics of healing in Afro-Brazilian religions
Abstract
Afro-Brazilian religions enhance various entities and territories («orishas», plants, animals, substances and humans) that constitute their modes of existence. Their ancestral knowledge mobilizes not only religious attributes, since Nature and the Cosmos erupt in their practices. We present two ethnographies, carried out between 2011 and 2020 in three «terreiros», in the states of Paraná and Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil. In these modes of existence, the concept of healing goes beyond the biopsychosocial dimensions in a series of procedures (cleansing, blessings, prayers, herbal baths, teas, smoking, among others) that promote the restoration of health and well-being of these groups.
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