Roots of Jurema

Authors

  • José Francisco Miguel Henriques Bairrão USP; Faculdade de Filosofia Ciências e Letras de Ribeirão Preto

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S0103-65642003000100009

Keywords:

Imagination, Social representation, Social cognition, Religious practies, Social Psychology

Abstract

This article intends to subsidize reflections on the meaning of "knowing" in "popular" culture. The aim is to bring Juremas scent for the discussion on the problem of knowledge. Forms of popular cognition are reflected based on the persistent and multifaceted Juremas presence in the Brazilian imaginary. Its roots, botanical and ethnic, remain out of the cultivated area and preserve vegetable and semantic trunks of the "caboclos cult". The article also describes processes of semiosis immanent to this Brazilian wild lushness and discusses their importance to the study of social cognition and to a dialog with popular knowledge.

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Published

2003-01-01

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Original Articles