Corpos, espíritos e história: perspectivas indo-caribenhas
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- Catalogue identifier
- klm000037
- Alternate titles and import identifiers
- KLM000037; Bodies, spirits and history: Indo-Caribbean perspectives
- Author or attribution
- Marcelo Moura Mello
- Record type
- Article
- Language
- Portuguese
- Date / edition
- 2024-09-11; issue dated July–December 2023
- Source / repository
- Revista de Antropologia da UFSCar, Universidade Federal de São Carlos
- Access
- Open access
- Subjects
- KLM Research Sources — 5 November 2026; Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Contemporary Worship and Living Traditions; Temples, Sacred Places, and Historical Worship
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Mello studies how members of Kali-worshipping communities in coastal Guyana experience colonial history through bodies, spirits and divine manifestations. Drawing on fieldwork in Berbice and a later return visit, he follows accounts of Dutch spirits, temple rebuilding and interactions between devotees and deities. Rather than reducing spirit narratives to symbols of past violence, the article examines the practices through which people recognize historical presences and negotiate their effects. Its discussion of divine form also considers Mariamma, bodily manifestation and sacred plants within this particular Kali-worship tradition. The analysis expands the library’s diaspora coverage while showing why Caribbean Kali worship cannot simply be treated as an unchanged transplant from India. This is a distinct later study of embodied history and relational forms, not a duplicate of the author’s earlier article on sacrifice.
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Corpos, espíritos e história: perspectivas indo-caribenhas
English title: Bodies, spirits and history: Indo-Caribbean perspectives
Author / attribution: Marcelo Moura Mello
Publication: Revista de Antropologia da UFSCar, Universidade Federal de São Carlos. 15(2), pp. 70–90; 21-page PDF
Date: 2024-09-11; issue dated July–December 2023
Type / language: Peer-reviewed journal article; Portuguese; English abstract
Complete text: https://www.rau2.ufscar.br/index.php/rau/article/download/454/392/401
Source record: https://www.rau2.ufscar.br/index.php/rau/article/view/454
Identifier: doi:10.14244/rau.v15i2.454
Mello studies how members of Kali-worshipping communities in coastal Guyana experience colonial history through bodies, spirits and divine manifestations. Drawing on fieldwork in Berbice and a later return visit, he follows accounts of Dutch spirits, temple rebuilding and interactions between devotees and deities. Rather than reducing spirit narratives to symbols of past violence, the article examines the practices through which people recognize historical presences and negotiate their effects. Its discussion of divine form also considers Mariamma, bodily manifestation and sacred plants within this particular Kali-worship tradition. The analysis expands the library’s diaspora coverage while showing why Caribbean Kali worship cannot simply be treated as an unchanged transplant from India. This is a distinct later study of embodied history and relational forms, not a duplicate of the author’s earlier article on sacrifice.
Subjects: Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Contemporary Worship and Living Traditions; Temples, Sacred Places, and Historical Worship
Historical context: Coastal Guyana, especially Berbice; fieldwork in 2010–2012 and 2018, interpreted alongside colonial and indenture histories.
Composition / witness: Modern article, received 3 July 2023 and accepted 6 June 2024 Not applicable: modern authored scholarship
Rights: Journal record states copyright 2024 Revista de Antropologia da UFSCar and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Free full text; reuse requires licence compliance. Link rather than reproduce by default.
Evidence / reading limits: Selective close reading for completeness, identity and relevance, not exhaustive translation or independent audit of ethnographic claims. No complete English translation verified. Fresh 401-item site snapshot has no matching title, DOI or PDF URL.
Access verified: 5 November 2026. Complete text checked in the research catalog; full-text access rechecked for this export. Absent from the 401-record site comparison at 02:48–02:49 UTC.
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Journal record states copyright 2024 Revista de Antropologia da UFSCar and Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Free full text; reuse requires licence compliance. Link rather than reproduce by default.
Citation
Marcelo Moura Mello. Corpos, espíritos e história: perspectivas indo-caribenhas. Revista de Antropologia da UFSCar, Universidade Federal de São Carlos. 15(2), pp. 70–90; 21-page PDF 2024-09-11; issue dated July–December 2023. doi:10.14244/rau.v15i2.454.
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