Abstract
Starting from ethnographic exercises, the text presents diasporic experiences of women mourners that when migrating from northeastern Brazil to “Amazon Bragantina”, in Pará State, from the 1950s, whose lives were marked by the initiation process with the entities of the Brazilian enchant (Prandi, 200457 PRANDI, R. Encantaria brasileira: o livro dos mestres, caboclos e encantados. Rio de Janeiro: Pallas, 2004.). On overnight trips to cemeteries, transfiguration, physical transport, clairvoyance and wanderings in animal bodies, winds and waters, these mourners revisited “worlds” and ancient “times”, going to talk with shamans and “powerful” chanters of Maranhão, Paraíba, Piauí and Ceará, letting people see and delighted in other senses of displacement. The belief in the ability of entities to monitor persons holding the “gift of praying” to the Pará, as well as continually transitioning these sites, nomadizando up (Deleuze; Guattari, 199511 DELEUZE, G.; GUATTARI, F. Mil platôs: capitalismo e esquizofrenia 2: vol. 1. São Paulo: Editora 34, 1995.) between “there” and “here”, constitute the phenomenon of “diaspora of the enchanted” (Brah, 20115 BRAH, A. Cartografías de la diáspora: identidades en cuestión. Madrid: Traficantes de Sueños, 2011.; Hall, 199930 HALL, S. A identidade cultural na pós-modernidade. Rio de Janeiro: DP&A, 1999., 200931 HALL, S. Da diáspora: identidades e mediações culturais. 1. ed. atualiz. Belo Horizonte: Editora UFMG, 2009.). Living with these women teaches, among other things, to defend conceptions of meetings and displacements of cultures that perceive the radical otherness of the cosmology of the human sciences, even when one believes this faithfully situated in places of departure, passage and arrival of movements, forgetting often it is not the place, but the material and symbolic transits.
Keywords
Amazon; delighted; diasporas; mourners