This research seeks to understand the networks, the relationships of affection, conflict, friendship and kinship that are established among African students at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (Unilab), Malês campus, in Brazil. In particular, the research focuses on the students who, from 2014 onwards, came to study at the Malês campus in Bahia and how they build their relationships as students in Brazilian territory

This dissertation aims to study Sufism as an analytical category. To this end, a critical bibliographical analysis will be made of works produced, within the scope of Brazilian academia, on the topic, aiming to understand how the different categories of Sufism were mobilized and used in them.

This master's dissertation was developed from qualitative approaches and participant observation. Prepared as an ethnography whose objective is to analyze the social effects caused by large enterprises in the oil sector and pulp production, from the perspective of residents of the community Fazenda Pindobal, a rural community in the municipality of Alagoinhas, state of Bahia. 

The focus of this dissertation is the intersection between conflicts and racial relations in the Quati region, in the city of Pedro Alexandre, estate of Bahia. This relationship is the result of the environmental disaster caused by the rupture of the Quati Dam on July 11, 2019. The documentary analysis and semi-structured interviews contributed to the realization of an ethnography of conflicts in the ways in which social agents share and dispute control, and their use of natural, human, and environmental resources. The racial perspective provides an understanding of how relationships are established and based on conflicts and the environmental racism experienced by Quati community members in this context. While the existing conflicts are seen as environmental phenomena, underlying mechanisms of social order are inserted in the normative structure based on racist differentiation practices in the interaction between groups. The research therefore brought how the disaster caused and mobilized changes in the ways of life from the Quati community members, as well as evoked the historical process of conflictual interactions between social agents regarding issues of ethnic identity and representation.

This dissertation is an ethnography about the use of alcohol and other drugs in some rural communities in the backlands of Bahia, considering the socio-anthropological aspects of the use of substances in interface with the construction of masculinities in this scenario, gender relations, the process of racialization and mental health.

This ethnography describes the activities of fitness and calisthenics groups in public spaces in Salvador da Bahia. I argue that the relationships between “training brothers” are constituted by the occupation and gendering of urban spaces, the apprenticeship of sports techniques for bodily transformations, and the elaboration of moral horizons of respectability. In street workouts, men from a popular neighborhood in Salvador imagine and manufacture not only bodies but a city and a future in which they can live.

This thesis deals with the historical continuity of the Anacé indigenous people in the territory of the municipality of Caucaia, in Ceará, from the 17th century to the 21st century. Therefore, it analyzes the relevant historiography, academic works of indigenous Anacé and the ethnographic material prepared between the years 2019 and 2022. We emphasize the kinship connections present in the documentary corpus and in the bibliography of the theme.

In this thesis, I present an analysis of social sciences literature that addresses the religious conflict involving neopentecostal churches in Brazil, narrowing this research so as to understand what are the religious conflicts made visible by the researchers. The aim is to discuss the framed theorical categories in a national level, regarding the relationship with academic works that address these conflicts in Salvador.

The dissertation aims to analyze the EIA of the Salvador-Itaparica Bridge project in its documentary fabric in order to understand the discursive crossings and textual performances in the construction of "diagnoses", classifications and representations. The document is also examined in its articulations within the conflict involving the implementation of this enterprise and the rhetoric of the development to which it is linked.

The webcam model activity is regulated in Brazil as “telesexual” and is part of a sector of the economy here termed the “sexual economy”. In proposing to investigate the emergence of this new economy, I needed to touch on a deeper question, that is, under what conditions a new productive paradigm emerged not only from the sex, but the general work structure from the exchange between technology, media, consumption and pornography at the turn of the 20's of the 21st century?

This thesis discusses Black women politics in Brazil, approaching a particular context involving a journey of a group of Afro-Brazilian religious to Benin, in West Africa. In 2012, I organized a trip to Africa to shoot scenes of my film documentary named Merê. In this project, one of the most important goals was to bring attention to the contemporary flows abroad of Black women throughout the Brazilian boundaries to Africa, and its impacts to the Jeje Mahi communities in Bahia.

In the religious field, there is a tendency to sectarianism of great concern, when the transformations or variations of some practices can be viewed with prejudice and discrimination. Thus, the main issue discussed in this dissertation is the interreligious dialogue observed in Céu de Santa Maria de Sião, a group located in the municipality of Embu das Artes / SP. Its “hybrid” identity establishes a common language between two distinct religious movements, Santo Daime and Rastafari.

The present work presents what leads people to gather around the Zeferina Beiru Community Library, a Community Library and Cultural Center in the Arenoso neighborhood. Through the use of images as a central unit of analysis throughout the research process, analysis, interpretation and research narrative. In this way, I will present some speeches by educators who are and / or were part of the Library, through a written narrative with visual resources, I will present the Library as an agglutinating phenomenon in the neighborhood of Arenoso.

This dissertation aims to know when and how the Afro-indigenous ethnic issue became visible in the municipality of Rio de Contas (South of Chapada Diamantina). The pandemic scenario prevented the completion of the local fieldwork, although some data was collected. Therefore, it was decided to adjust the methodology, retreating in the use of the methods, techniques and procedures of the field initially foreseen and conducting a vast bibliographic review on the occupation of the region under study, through which a relationship between territory, memory and village was found and a counterpoint between race and ethnicity.

The objects seized by the police from the Afro-Brazilian temples of candomblé (terreiros), when they were not immediately destroyed or claimed back by their respective owners, allowed that the collection of candomblé pieces from the Geographical and Historical Institute of Bahia (IGHB) was created, during the first half of the 20th century. The chair of a candomblé spiritual leader named Severiano Manoel de Abreu, also known as Jubiabá, will be treated as a case study, starting from its seizure to its transfer to the IGHB, and from there to the Mokambo terreiro, under the leadership of tata Anselmo Santos.

The Caminhada pelo Fim da Violência e do Ódio Religioso (Walk for the End of Violence and Religious Hatred, for Peace) is a public manifestation of candomblé´s temples in Engenho Velho da Federação, a popular neighborhood in Salvador, with a predominantly black population. Organized since 2004, from the initiative of local religious leaders, it was motivated by aggressions and offenses from neo-pentecostal churches installed in the neighborhood, from the 1990s, amidst an ostensible hostility against afro-brazilian religions, undertaken by new trends and churches of the pentecostal domain in contemporary Brazil. Based on fieldwork, through participant observation and interviews, especially with the Caminhada´s organizers, the research sought to identify modes of organization and strategies adopted by afro-brazilian religious to carry out the demonstration and analyze the Caminhada do Engenho Velho as an action collective of expressive character, a ritual or performative act. The research also sought to situate the emergence of the manifestation from the mobilization of afro-brazilian religious communities in Salvador, to face inter-religious conflicts and present a historical approach to the occupation of the area of the city where the neighborhood is located, its insertion in the urban space of Salvador, in order to discuss interconnections between the territorial dimension, religion and black identity, through which the candomblé people present themselves in the public space as a collective political subject. To go out on the streets, its agents promote dialogue and cooperation between various religious communities in the neighborhood and its surroundings and in the manifestation they trigger cosmological conceptions and ritual elements that are associated with the proclamation of the importance of temples in local life, the relationships between these temples in the neighborhood and many others existing in the city and in Brazil, and articulate religious identity and ethnic-racial to continue the fight against religious hatred.

The project "Sarau da Onça" is a meeting of youth who make poetry, from the neighborhood of Sussuarana, in Salvador, promoted initially by the Comboni missionaries (a Catholic congregation). Through poetry in meetings, there is a sharing of the realities of discrimination, racism and rejection. In the form of literary languages of peripheral resistance, these poetry of affirmation and revaluation of black identity, are changing the way of living of this youth. Through interviews inside and outside the field because of the pandemic, this research sought to identify, in the events of Sarau da Onça, the processes that provide the construction of black identity as a new form of resistance to racial discrimination in the city. The issues addressed in this research seek to understand two dimensions of this process: the repercussions of this learning on the life of the participants and the unforeseen consequences (at least for religious) of personal motivations, that led these black youth to conform to the Afro-Brazilian Religions, as a source of identity, resistance and black pride, abandoning Roman Catholic Church to accept the "call of the ancestors", as they claim. From this point of view, the research problematized the ways in which conversion takes place, in this case, formerly Catholic´s youth who rediscover themselves in another religious experience.

During the covid-19 pandemic period, there was an increase in the number of conjugal attacks against women and feminicides, on the other hand, there was a drop in the number of complaints. From this perspective, the problem is moved to the field of research, in search of mechanisms that can analyze its dynamics that enhance the rupture of the cycle of violence. My objective was to analyze the main representations reported by women who perceive themselves as victims of conjugal violence during the pandemic, in a shelter group for women victims of domestic violence, located on the Facebook platform.

This dissertation is an ethnographic contribution to the literature on the diverse modes of the production of (mis)trust across and within cultures, highlighting the social role of trust in highly intimate processes such as pregnancy and childbirth. I explore what different acts and notions of trust the women and involved birth attendants engage in as they journey towards birth and how they built trust through the challenging and redefinition of authoritative knowledge, and vice versa. The investigation of the inter-subjective processes that underlie the production of knowledges and ‘truths’ about (home)birth in the sociocultural heterogeneity that characterizes Caetê-Açú has shown that trust-building in the time-space of pregnancy and homebirth is integral to these processes. 

This thesis is an ethnography about the conjugal relationships between the Kariri-Xocó and the non-indigenous, the “cabeça-seca”. The Kariri-Xocó inhabit the village of the same name, located in a small town in Alagoas in the Lower São Francisco region (Brazil), in close proximity to the non-indigenous people, with whom they establish countless relationships. This study aimed to understand the social transformations and the effects produced as a result of the conjugal produced alliance between the Kariri-Xocó and the non-indigenous, in the context of daily relations in the village.

This thesis aims to analyze religious violence from the experience of Afro-religious people – that is, those whose religious practices are violated – in Cachoeira, a municipality recognized as the cradle of African-based religions in the micro-region of Recôncavo da Bahia.

This dissertation presents an ethnography of the Science of Amaro in the Pankararé TIs, Bahia. Supported by the interface between anthropological and archeological science, the writing weaves a thread about the inter-world communication between humans, spirits, enchantments, and Dons through the association of the religious with non- verbal languages such as dreams and the use of ancient technologies.

The present ethnography proposes to research how the practice of the “Samba de Roda Voa Voa Maria” da Vila de Matarandiba. The research aims to reveal how the women  of the samba de roda Voa Voa Maria performance has built and reinvented the local samba de roda, having as scenery  the recording of the first CD of the group, in 2017.

The present work is a study of urban anthropology that has as perspective the historical transformation of the Gamboa locality, which originated the current Gamboa de Baixo. Through this historical path, the work seeks to examine the relations of the current Gamboa de Baixo with its neighborhood and the city in a broader way, analyzing, in this sense, the implications and challenges for the survival of the inhabitants of the Gamboa de Baixo.

This study analyzes the engagement of young black poets who work reciting poetry in urban transport collectives in Salvador, Bahia. The relations established in cultural and political events find in the literary production and in public statements of these young people a strategy of cultural activism aligned with a whole dynamic of life that makes perfect sense in the city's circuits. The delimitation of the study is in line with the theory of practice as it considers necessary to politicize actions and events led by cultural activists accompanied in the field. Their performances with poetry and organization of soirees produces socio-cultural and identity impacts through a literature which raises discussions around the violence and genocide of black youth, racial identity and the strategies of survival, employment and income of these young people who are able to reframe the social imaginary of the “favelas”.

“The 2 de Julho neighborhood, Centro Antigo de Salvador- BA: the dynamics of conflicts around the urban space” is an analysis research on the projects of public and / or private bodies that affected the neighborhood and the forms of urban resistance in the space of housing and sociability in Vila Coração de Maria with the perspective of understanding how the different social agents interpret, appropriate and legitimize their actions through the concepts of "requalification", "revitalization", "rehabilitation" and "gentrification", these categories are commonly used, on the one hand, to discuss urban development and, on the other, to discuss the consequences arising from these processes. was sought in the scientific literature resources for analysis, namely: A noção de agente in Pierre Bourdieu (1983), “Analfabetismo Urbanístico” by Ermínia Maricato (2016), “Pilhagem” by Laura Nader (2013), “biopoder” by Michel Foucault ( 1999), Achille Mbembe's “ necropolítica” (2018 [2003]), among others. The research was produced using the following methodological instruments: the first phase was based on the elaboration of the bibliographic research in order to learn about the concepts that guide the investigation and that, also, subsidized the theoretical foundation (SA-SILVA; ALMEIDA; GUINDANI, 2009 ); the second stage corresponded to documentary research that gathered several types of documents, namely: photographs, archives of newspapers printed or on electronic sites, letters, magazines, documentaries, official documents (SA-SILVA; ALMEIDA; GUINDANI, 2009). And the third stage was intended for intense fieldwork with participant observation and semi-structured interviews that allowed, among other things, to produce fragments of life stories (BECKER, 1999). In short, the issues analyzed in the two chapters were understood as the dynamics of conflicts around urban space. In these, the different social agents interpret and appropriate the categories ("revitalization", "requalification", "rehabilitation" and "gentrification") based on the re-signification of such concepts in the practice of their speeches. Through this ethnography, he evidenced a gradual process of gentrification associated with the concept of necropolitics

No Brasil, a presença dos povos de terreiro no movimento de economia solidária tem pautado um interessante debate no que diz respeito às relações de poder, econômicas, políticas e sociais presentes nos terreiros de candomblé. A pesquisa ora apresentada tem como objeto uma análise sobre a economia solidária como estratégia político-econômica das religiões afro-brasileiras enfocando a hierarquia e a autogestão existentes no grupo pertencente à Casa de Oxumarê.

This dissertation investigated the contemporary situation of Afro-Ecuadorian ancestral communities with a focus on two communities: Carondelet in Canton San Lorenzo in the province of Esmeraldas and Mascarilla, in Canton Mira, Vale do Chota, Province of Carchi. After the end of slavery, and Throughout history and against this oppression, Afro-Ecuadorian ancestral communities were able to maintain their existence and values, with their own organization in defense of citizenship rights, which ensured physical, social, economic and cultural reproduction in ancestral territories. 

This work is about gender change processes and the social name used in documents as theme and discusses the legal procedures and understandings on the subject from an ethnography carried out with the public defender’s office in the state of Bahia.  Dialogues were held with female employees, observation of the institutional space and analysis of legal proceedings. The data were interpreted from the identity, gender and sexuality theories seeking to identify representations, ideologies, prejudices and stigmas involved in legal procedures; as well as to detect paradigm changes in this field.  

This text is characterized as an ethnographic narrative exercise about the reality experienced by quebradeiras de coco babaçu (babassu coconut breakers). Quebradeira de coco are the identity assumed by women, due to the work they perform. It is an activity traditionally carried out by women from childhood to adulthood. This research focused on the daily life of rural / agroextractive communities located in the Médio Mearim, micro-region of the state of Maranhão. The practice of participant observation took place in the years 2016 and 2017. This is a feminist anthropological study of gender relations within the scope of the babassu production chain. Interactions and speeches of local agents are addressed around the proposal of mechanization of work, in communities that integrate the Association in Settlement Areas of the State of Maranhão (ASSEMA), and of the routine at Escola Família Agrícola Antonio Fontenele (EFAAF) and in the community of São Manoel. The context is interpreted through two analytical axes: gender and development.

Serra Grande, located in the south of Bahia, comes to stand out as an important center for alternative therapies in the circuit of new age religions. Self-knowledge, nature and health preservation, are some general characteristics that have reached the region in the last 20 years. However, these modes of use contrast with previous modes of use, in which social relationships were an important guarantee of health and well-being. As different ways of relating to nature, also, as people and with the territory, they also reflect and contrast with different forms of care and health concepts that are produced and updated in this location. This ethnography describes these different ways of inhabiting the village, as well as the methods that are formulated, especially with regard to health and forms of care in the place.

Through ethnography I analyze processes of production of cultural heritage on the island of Bom Jesus dos Passos (Salvador, BA) from the clash between local cultural events and a large municipal investment project on the seafront of the island. In this aspect the "cultural heritage" as a category of thought, allows to investigate in a polyphonic way the conflicts generated between residents and the City Hall, generating tactics, strategies and local rebels.

This work trajectories traversed by some people from the terreiro of candomblé (place where the candomblé rituals take place) to the academy. They are academic trajectories of people who depart from the spaces of participation and belonging of candomblé to go towards the academy and end up making ethnographic incursions in contexts of the Afro-Brazilian religion of which they are adepts. Biographical methodologies were debated and experimented by develop the research and writing exercises. These exercises attend to the contributions of ethnobiographies and the dialogues between ethnography and biography, as well as possible keys for the treatment of trajectories between terreiro and academy. Thus, in addition to the aforementioned methodological discussions, the study draws the motives that leads the subjects to the experience of academic research, the conflicts that leads to compose the processes of their research and criticism of exercises and academic spaces as well as, the participation of saints in their understandings about candomblé. Finally, the work attentive for as, through ethnographic evidence, the particular formation of this research looks composed of people from within the candomblé and the epistemological elements that compose it.

In the Master's thesis “Ganhadeiras de Itapuã: an ethnography about tradition, samba and faith” we established discussions about labor relations, territoriality and religiosity that involve intersectionalities relations by narratives about the women life trajectory who participate in the Bahian cultural group.

The Bay of Iguape is a Bahian estuary of great environmental and socioeconomic importance for the traditional populations within its confines. In order to benefit the communities of artisanal fishermen and shellfishers who live primarily off of its natural resources, the area was transformed by the ICMBio into a marine extractive reserve. Within these communities is São Francisco do Paraguaçu, which in 2005 recognized itself as a remnant of a quilombo and claimed the regularization of the lands traditionally occupied by the former farms of the region. The quilombo territory identification process followed shortly after, between 2006 and 2007, and was accompanied by several conflicts, often violent, involving residents opposed to the quilombo identity, which, among other things, demonstrated a coronelist/oligarchist and racist structure and a dispute for the power of representation. The problem worsened in 2009, when the Government of the state of Bahia proposed the construction of a Naval Industrial Pole, a public-private initiative within the extractive reserve polygon. Since the proposal was not compatible with the existence of a protected area, the then Minister of the Environment changed the boundaries of the extractive reserve, which overlapped the quilombola territory of São Francisco do Paraguaçu. The area, still in the domain of formers, already suffered from a territorial overlap with the private natural heritage reserve of Peninha. The overlapping of these antagonistic state projects is the result of the overlapping interests among the different social groups disputing within the state. This is reflected at the local level, to the extent that legal entities are created not just to make viable projects that represent the interests of a certain socioeconomic and professional class (with a clear racial divide), but also to respond to these governmental proposals. Either because the associations create a legitimate channel of communication with the state or because the formalization allows easier access to the specific public policies resulting from the projects. If on the one hand institutionalization permitted dialogue between new political subjects and state organs, on the other hand, it intensified disputes between local groups for the role of representing the community and speaking for it. Thus, new identities emerged and overlapped, redefining emic categories of community belonging as well as giving new meanings to individual and collective trajectories. In this process, the discourses were environmentalized, in a search for greater legitimacy in public opinion, for the plans and actions proposed for the region.

Let’s praise the illustrious fishermen of Piatã beach is a study of the practical and symbolic strategies adopted by artisanal fishermen who lead their lives in the liminality, between the sea and the big city. Two dimensions are interrelated in this research, artisanal fishermen, work and autonomy in the city, creating a privileged opportunity for an anthropological study.

This thesis presents a perspective on contemporary indigenous cinema production in Brazil. It focuses on audiovisual creations produced as social and environmental mitigation for high impact installations built in indigenous territories and seeks to reflect, in dialogue with Isabelle Stengers' philosophy, about the image in times of catastrophe and the cosmopolitan impact of audiovisual productions created by indigenous authors and coauthors.

This Dissertation uses a letter as an Analytical-Interpretive-Poetic resource to reflect on the different Interactions, on disputes of Projects Of Occupation Of a City and on Culture. This letter is a metonymy of Bando Anunciador in the city of Feira de Santana that relies on the anthropological method originating from ethnography. The Bando Anunciador was a tradition that has been brought back to life in 2007 by the Center University of Culture and art (Cuca) and is a cultural manifestation, similar to a carnival procession, where so-called groups of ‘bandos’ and other cultural groups dressed up in costumes and accompanied by music brought back political manifestations in the streets of the city center of Feira de Santana. This manifestation dates back to a set of festivities from different black cultural expressions, sertanejas, afro-Brazilian and Catholics who honored the patroness of the city: Our Lady of Santana, but these festivities were destroyed in 1987 by conflicts based on excessive profanity and because mediation between the Catholic Church, the participants and the Municipal Secretary of Tourism was no longer possible.  At the foundation of this dissertation lies the following research question: How do the interactions between the different actors (Cuca and representatives of the Bando Anunciador) proceed in the revival process of the Bando Anunciador? I use the history as an interpretative key to transcend the binomial of modernity and tradition and to find the intersections between permanencies and impermanence’s after the revival of Bando Anunciador to demonstrate both the reflective processes of the present and the power of living the festive experience which produces ecstasy, memories, politics and re-significances of the public spaces of cities.

his Masters Thesis deals with the gifts offered to Iemanjá in Rio Vermelho, Salvador - Bahia. The gifts are delivered througth the year in Rio Vermelho beach. In this beach the gifts are delivered more often due the existence of Iemanjá house, a place, located in Largo de Santana, where devotees offer several gifts to the deity. The focus of this Thesis is on the histories of the gifts, their meanings, and their effects in the lives of persons that deliver gifts to the Mãe D'Água at that place. This Thesis focus also on the relations of fishermen responsible for the main gift, which has began the 2th February feast, in 1924, and it was known, until 1950, as the gift to the Mãe D'Água. The chapters approach the connections between the trajectories of the gifts with peoples's lives and their relations with the place, the diverse configurations and meanings embodied in the gifts. It is argued that the experiences of people with the deity ate connected to the offerings of gifts to Iemanjá. The gift is the main reference, as well as the necessary condition, to the creation and perpetuation of this celebration. The 2th February is the gift to the Mãe D'Água.

People and groups articulate in their daily lives different dimensions of their identity and also
characterize social diversity. One of the aspects that obscure or highlight these relations is the
consequence of the interaction between asymmetric powers and different logics of
domination in which people and groups interact, in which forms of knowing relationships are
configured where many interests are mixed, are economic, political, cultural, environmental.
Following this bias, the research aims to analyze the dynamics and interactions that involve the
actors participating in the network for the implementation of large projects for development,
specifically the construction and installation of the Paraguaçu Cove Shipyard, also identifying
the actors' speeches, their respective bases of legitimacy and the power relations tied to the
installation of the enterprise. The research starts from the exercises of ethnographic
description and social construction of the object of study, respecting the plurality of identities,
roles and discourses of the social actors participating in the project, directly or indirectly
affected, the risks brought to the environment and, to emphasize the perception of these
before the developmental processes implanted in their territories.

The present ethnography tried to investigate and understand the experience of the sacred in men who incorporate the entity Pombagira in Umbanda practiced in the city of Salvador - BA. Based on the interpretation of the narratives of these subjects, as well as, through observation and experience in the rituals and daily events related to this spirit.

This work discusses problems concerning childbirth, memory, body and identity (mainly the processes of emergence and/or reinvention of identities in context of conflicts and disputes involving territories and bodies), based on the ethnographic fieldwork held in the Kaonge Maroon/Quilombola Community (i.e., descendants of escapees from slavery) (Cachoeira -BA). It is intent to analyze the meanings of childbirth and care practices related to the woman's body, focusing on gestation, childbith and puerperium. There is a search for understanding two sets of distinct, but articulated problems: on the one hand, even in face of the meanings attributed by such communities to their identity and to what constitutes it, must be understand the interactions between distinct sets of knowledge and practices - scientific medical knowledge and the so-called "traditional" knowledge - in a context of the disappearance of the practice of traditional birth and popularization of hospitalar childbirth; on the other hand, it is a matter of reflecting how (and if) the kinds of childbirth would express different conceptions of health, body, identity and even communitarian life, which, in the case of these Maroon/Quilombola communities, would affect social dynamics and historical processes of interpenetration with the urban universe and its institutions, characterized by disputes between bodies and territories. 

The present work focuses on the indemnity issues that pervade the Pantheistic Society Ayahuasca, based in Pernambuco, considering that these identities are multiple and fluctuating in the context of postmodernity. Within this perspective, using the ethnographic method and interviews, it also seeks to analyze issues related to the ritual and how individuals signify the use of ayahuasca in their lives. From an anti-prohibitionist perspective on the use of psychoactive agents, it is worth that the ritual demarcates a place, where the members' coexistence and mutual assistance during the experience are edifying means for the individuals who use the substance. In addition, he realizes that the use of psychoactive agents is built through a triad: drug, set and settig. The identity issues are, in turn, brought with the understanding of the different meanings given to the concept of what pantheism is, based on the philosophy of Baruch Spinoza and Regis Allain Barbier, founder of the group. Such philosophical and theological parameters serve as a guide for the positioning of members who embrace an eco-humanist, monist cause, which has its main inspiration in Nature.

Women have reached out prestige and authority in occupations which were exclusively of the male public. This work has showed that the alleged domain male in Assembly of God`s (AG) churches has its origin by not recognition that women and men take different circuits in the same organization. While men express their Pentecostal faith for consolidating ministries or to ratify the male authority in the institutional and doctrinal sphere of the AG, women assume another kind of leadership which has been explored in this work. This thesis has also the propose to enlarge the discussion about religious experiences of AG`s women, Pentecostal denomination which was chosen to be the fieldwork of this study. The fieldwork was carried out between 2013 and 2014 in four churches localized in Salvador city, Bahia state, and one church in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state. In order to achieve this goal was made an historical analysis about the beginning of Pentecostal mission in Brazil. Then it was drawn attention to the protagonism of AG`s female headships mainly the religious activities of women missionaries of some AG`s branches spotlighting the mediations that have been carried out by their women missionaries through of using spiritual gifts during the prayers meeting from local church especially prophecy and revelation ones. In prayer’s services spirituals agencies are mobilized to solve domestics issues which attract an audience majority compound of women. In the AG’s congregations which were research objects women members ordinaries, teachers, missionaries, and pastors make a religious landscape which they deconstruct external stereotypes that classify them as subservient women and dependent on the male authorities of the home and church whether seeking greater freedom to enjoy the spiritual gifts or acting in the reorganization, including material and financial, of the domestic sphere. The activities taught by women in AG temples reveal that their religious activism has undergone changes in the classical forms of religious denomination, showing the varied possibilities of belonging to AG. Such activism of women in AG’s temples reveals a common face in the plurality of churches called by the label “Assembly of God”. 

Realizing the Sao Joaquim Fair beyond its commercial function, this dissertation discusses the different forms of appropriation of this fair, mainly the local appropriation for residential purposes. From an ethnographic study, seeks to analyze what means in daily to be a Sao Joaquim Fair marketer resident and what this condition implies in its dynamics and especially in its residents life. From this perspective, the work encourages the discussion of the various senses that the house and the open air market can take, according as these two spaces are reinterpreted by the residents of the Sao Joaquim Fair. The dwell appears here as an important category of analysis, enabling the seizure of different forms of life in the city. The study also seeks to understand the reasons for the allocation of habitations at the fair and what this phenomenon represents in the urban context of the Salvador. 

The present work aimed to study the relationship of Pankararé people with the environment in which they live. It is an ethnography focused on natural resource management as well as in the perception and attribution of meaning to the natural elements of the territory by the indigenous group. For this I used literature sources and ethnographic material. The study took place on the indigenous land Pankararé and the indigenous land Brejo do Burgo, located on the municipalities of Paulo Afonso, Glória and Rodelas (Bahia), where about 1,500 people live.The region, known as Raso da Catarina, is one of the driest of the semi-arid region of Bahia where predominates the Caatinga biome. The Pankararé people inhabited this region for several generations and thus developed a comprehensive and detailed knowledge of the territory. This body of knowledge about natural resources - such as the classification of plants and animals - as well as land use and perception are part of a dynamic subordinated to an outstanding feature of the local ecology: the existence of two complementary environments, the brejo (swamp) "civilized" and the raso (shallow) "raw" (wild). This opposition is not only restricted to the environmental character, but also follows the criteria of social and symbolic relevance. In this sense, the study also aimed to investigate the expressions involving "to live of the agriculture" - associated with living in the brejo - and "to live of the forest" - referring to the way of life typical of the raso. Thus, I performed a review of studies on ethnobiology and ethnoecology about the Pankararé, followed by field research, based on participant observation, in order to deepen both the understanding of the use of the resources of the raso as to describe the knowledge and techniques management involved in agricultural work and therefore how these two worlds are intertwined in the integrated management of the indigenous territory.