Lígia Duque Platero He is a doctorate in anthropology from the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology (PPGSA) of the UFRJ. Currently, he is conducting doctoral research in the area of urban Ethnology, on the different dimensions of the alliance between an urban church of Santo Daime and the Yawanawá indigenous people (Pano). She has a degree in history from the University of São Paulo (USP) and a master's degree in Latin American studies from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). His master's thesis is titled Indigenous Policies and Hegemony in Brazil and Mexico: Indigenous Education Programs in the 1940/1970 Period. His areas of interest are: relations between indigenous peoples and national societies in contemporary times, Santo Daime, ayahuasca, alliances, psychoactive plants, indigenous education policies and indigenous education. It is part of the Nucleus of Interdisciplinary Studies on Psychoactive-NEIP (http://neip.info/).

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Medicines of the jungle, consubstantiality and symbolic kinship

  • Lígia Duque Platero

Keywords: alliance, ayahuasca, consubstantiality, jungle medicines, symbolic kinship.

The subject of this article is the alliance between leaders of the Yawanawá (Pano) indigenous people, of the Río Gregorio Indigenous Land, state of Acre (Brazil), and the family of the leaders of an urban church of Santo Daime, located in Río de Janeiro The problem I pose is the formation of the alliance between these different actors, associated with the consumption of jungle medicines, with ideologies of consubstantiality and kinship production (symbolic and effective). The aim of the article is to present a historical overview of the formation of the alliance and to discuss its sociological and cosmological meanings. The data were collected in field work in an urban Santo Daime church in Rio de Janeiro from July 2015 to March 2017, and in twenty days in the Río Gregorio Indigenous Land, in July 2016.