Antônio Mourão Cavalcante
Biographic Data
| ID | 218953 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Antônio Mourão Cavalcante |
| GIVEN NAMES | Antônio Mourão |
| FAMILY NAME | Cavalcante |
| SIGNATURE | CAVALCANTE A M |
| AFFILIATIONS | (Formerly of) Faculty of Medicine Federal University of Ceará , Fortaleza Ceará Brazil. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A deceased doctor healing the living in the enchanted world of the Brazilian Northeast
The theme of this paper is that people in Northeast Brazil refuse to let a good person who helped them during his (or her) lifetime die. They do this through several of the religious traditions practiced in the region. Beings, human and other, now in another plane of reality established in modern thinking, cross the conceptual divide and return through mediums or other intermediaries to heal the living. We examine two religious traditions, “folk”…
Pilgrimage and Patronage in Brazil: A Paradigm for Social Relations and Religious Diversity
Este artigo descreve e analisa uma romaria ao santuário de São Francisco das Chagas, no município de Canindé (Ceará), no nordeste brasileiro. Ele foi escrito em resposta a um comentário de Daniel Gross feito há três décadas, descrevendo a ausência da romaria na literatura etnográfica. Baseado em estudo de campo realizado em fins dos anos oitenta e início dos anos noventa, juntamente com recentes visitas relativas e dados coletados em nossos estud…
Ethnopsychiatrie: La Culture Au Service De La Santé
Antonio Mourâo Cavalcante - Ethnopsychiatry: culture comes to the aid of health. The Author takes a case history as a basis for developing a discussion where he emphasizes the psychiatric and cultural aspects of a situation. This is a typical ethnopsychiatric approach, which goes back to the work of Georges Devereux and Tobie Nathan. The psychiatric elements the case presents suggest a depression. The cultural aspects, closely linked to the reali…
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Pilgrimage and Patronage in Brazil: A Paradigm for Social Relations and Religious Diversity
Este artigo descreve e analisa uma romaria ao santuário de São Francisco das Chagas, no município de Canindé (Ceará), no nordeste brasileiro. Ele foi escrito em resposta a um comentário de Daniel Gross feito há três décadas, descrevendo a ausência da romaria na literatura etnográfica. Baseado em estudo de campo realizado em fins dos anos oitenta e início dos anos noventa, juntamente com recentes visitas relativas e dados coletados em nossos estud…
Ethnopsychiatrie: La Culture Au Service De La Santé
Antonio Mourâo Cavalcante - Ethnopsychiatry: culture comes to the aid of health. The Author takes a case history as a basis for developing a discussion where he emphasizes the psychiatric and cultural aspects of a situation. This is a typical ethnopsychiatric approach, which goes back to the work of Georges Devereux and Tobie Nathan. The psychiatric elements the case presents suggest a depression. The cultural aspects, closely linked to the reali…
A deceased doctor healing the living in the enchanted world of the Brazilian Northeast
The theme of this paper is that people in Northeast Brazil refuse to let a good person who helped them during his (or her) lifetime die. They do this through several of the religious traditions practiced in the region. Beings, human and other, now in another plane of reality established in modern thinking, cross the conceptual divide and return through mediums or other intermediaries to heal the living. We examine two religious traditions, “folk”…
Sociology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Humanities (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · African Studies and Ethnography (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Epistemology (1 works) · Ethnography (1 works)