CRIA

Paths (out) of crisis

Principal researcher: Anastasios Panagiotopoulos

Research group: Circulation and Place-Making

Keywords

Afro-Cuban religisosity | Divination | Historical imagination | Race and racism | Secularism

Website

https://DL 57/2016/CP1349/CT0008

Funding Institution

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)

State

Closed

Start date

01-09-2018

End date

31-08-2024

Reference

DL 57/2016/CP1349/CT0008

Abstract

Afro-Cuban religiosity puts a big emphasis on various kinds of divination (material oracles, spirit possession, spiritism, premonitions, dreams, among others), as a way to redirect stagnant and deviated biographical paths. My research reflects on such issues, as they are linked to issues of personhood, (historical) imagination and politics. Also, it refelcts on how this particular ethnography may offer alternative paths, not only to the life-courses of my interlocutors, but also to the very methodological and analytical tools of Anthropology.