Fieldwork and its perspectives: anthropological encounters between researcher and priest in Mina’s Drum (Tambor de Mina)

Abstract

The present article proposes to reflect on the fieldwork and the relations between the religious and afro-maranhense fields from two texts about the Maranhão Mine Drum (Tambor de Mina do Maranhão). It is intended to understand how these two writings indicate a possibility of changes of positions, in so far as the anthropologist’s text can be interpreted from the religious discourse, and the Mina priest’s text from the anthropological position.