Cosmopolitics and Magical Plants in Research with Indigenous Peoples of the Brazilian Northeast: a conversation with Clarice Novaes da Mota

Authors

  • Paulo de Tássio Borges da Silva Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22481/odeere.v3i5.4138

Abstract

The interview was articulated during the visit of the anthropologist Clarice Novaes da Mota in april 2018 to Rio de Janeiro - RJ, and the dialogues were articulated virtually during the months of may and june of 2018. The interview brings one of the first anthropological works with the Indigenous Peoples of the Northeast, being built by Clarice Novaes da Mota with the Xokó in the State of Sergipe. The dialogues were built before the categories: Cosmopolitics, Magical Plants, Ethnogenesis, among others, where the anthropologist sedimented its work.

Keywords: Cosmopolitics, Northeast Indians, Magical Plants.

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Published

2018-06-30

How to Cite

DA SILVA, Paulo de Tássio Borges. Cosmopolitics and Magical Plants in Research with Indigenous Peoples of the Brazilian Northeast: a conversation with Clarice Novaes da Mota. ODEERE: International Journal of Ethnic Relations, Bahia, Brasil, v. 3, n. 5, p. 12–24, 2018. DOI: 10.22481/odeere.v3i5.4138. Disponível em: https://periodicos2.uesb.br/odeere/article/view/4138. Acesso em: 20 may. 2026.