O caminho da bruxa como fronteira da possibilidade: um estudo etnográfico sobre as experiências de vida nos grupos de bruxaria da cidade de Manaus- clã ixanaki,ordem mística templo de oríon ( OMTO) e tradição trina essência (TTE)

Abstract

This research is the result of ten years of personal experiences with the universe of Witchcraft and Contemporary Pganism in the city of Manaus, experiences that greatly influenced the development and texture of this work. This study aimed to investigate the disparate movement of witchcraft existing in the city of Manaus, through the life, magical, ritualistic, spiritual, shamanic experiences and the expressions of the members and groups researched. We rely on the theoretical and methodological lens of Performance Studies, specifically Performance Anthropology, as we understand that this research, being based on experiences, crosses fields of knowledge, also entering anthropology, through ethnography; for studies of the body and corporeality; of Art, through Performance and Theater. For this purpose, we adopted authors from history, religious sciences, social anthropology and witchcraft itself. Through the interdisciplinarity of this research, which calls for us to rethink the ways of learning, knowing and acting in contemporary society, especially the criticism of the frameworks and legitimization of knowledge inherited by the scientific model and its institutions, this study mobilizes and points out epistemic clues considered off-axis.