Faced with the cruelty of men of God: ethnographic notes on violence, individuality and human sacrifices

The objective of this text is to demonstrate that the understanding of the process of construction of violence in a human sacrifice implies the escape of explanations that define it, a priori, as formed only by a singular theological and religious character. The ethnographic approach proposes to ide...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor: Pereira, Cláudio Luiz
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:1999
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP)
Repositorio:Temáticas (Campinas. Online)
Idioma:portugués
OAI Identifier:oai:inpec.econtents.bc.unicamp.br:article/11667
Acceso en línea:https://econtents.bc.unicamp.br/inpec/index.php/tematicas/article/view/11667
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Human sacrifices
Ethnography
Sacrifícios humanos
Etinografia
Etnografia
Descripción
Sumario:The objective of this text is to demonstrate that the understanding of the process of construction of violence in a human sacrifice implies the escape of explanations that define it, a priori, as formed only by a singular theological and religious character. The ethnographic approach proposes to identify the constitution of an entire disciplinary field aimed at understanding this violence, especially in the context of psychiatry, criminology and, also, a body of medico-legal notions of mental illness.