On the Trail of the “Invisibles”: an ethnography about the relationship between the “encantados”, the ritual and Kiriri cosmopolitical organization
Toré; Shamanism; Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast from Brazil; Indigenous Ethnology; Territorial Repossession
The present work was developed with the Kiriri people, with their territory, already demarcated and homologated, located in the Bahian hinterland, in the municipalities of Banzaê and Quijingue. This research deals with, from an ethnographic perspective, the articulations between the Toré ritual,
the everyday relationship between Kiriris and invisible entities known as the “encantados” - or the shamanistic field - and the political organization of this people which, as argued, can be defined as a cosmopolitical organization given the centrality and importance of communication with the enchanted, mainly through the Toré ritual, in the modes of organization, political action and ethnic distinction of the group, whether in the interethnic or intraethnic sphere, with the phenomenon of the division of the people into distinct cosmopolitical groups that dispute greater legitimacy from diacritics that define the identity of the people on the interethnic plane,
and of different cosmological conceptions about the relationship with the enchanted.