Abstract

CARNEIRO, Ana. The prose's laught and risk: a comparison between the french bocage and the brazilian sertão. Rev. Mus. Antropol. [online]. 2018, vol.11, suppl.1, pp.55-60. ISSN 1852-060X.

Abstract The people of Buracos, populated by small farmers at Minas Gerais state, interior of Brazil, is described here focusing on moments of "schism" and "suspiction" in which certain personal relationships are at risk due to garbled conversations. This risk is a constant concern object of buraqueiros, which usually call themselves people of "good prose" and "consideration"; contrary to "schisms". This concern attentive to the risks of prose keeps some points of comparison with the attitudes of fear and caution that farmers of French Bocage develop before the "witchcraft system" ethnographed by Jeanne Favret-Saada. This ethnography, in contrast, helps to explain how, in Buracos, the prose's risk is not a threat to social life, but on the contrary is desired and pursued through humor.

Keywords : Talk; Sertão of Brazil; Gossip; Body.

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