was born in Recife, Pernambuco, in March 1943. She entered the former
Universidade do Brasil in 1963, studying Social Sciences at the National
Faculty of Philosophy, in Rio de Janeiro. She participated in the National
Program for Literacy of the Ministery of Education having been trained
by
Prof. Paulo Freire. She lived in Mexico in 1964. In the United States,
she
entered Temple University in 1965, where from she graduated in Psychology
in
1969. She obtained her Masters in Social Anthropology from the New School
of Social Research in 1977. She was a professor of anthropology at the
Institute of Social Sciences of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
from 1979 to 2000. She obtained her Doctorate in Social Anthropology from
the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 with the support of a doctorate
grant from CNPq. She has published the books: Jurema´s Children
in the
Forest of Spirits: ritual and healing among two Brazilian indigenous groups
(London: Intermediate Technologies Publications, 1997) and As muitas faces
da Jurema: de espécie botânica à divindade afro-indígena
(The many faces of
Jurema: from botanical species to afro-indigenous divinidade) with Ulysses
Paulino de Albuquerque (Recife: Bagaço, 2002). She has several
articles
published in books and periodicals. She is also the ex-president of the
National Association of Jurema. She is currently a professor at UFAL and
is also a student in the Basic Course in Hypnotherapy at the Hypnotherapy
Institute, Lafayette, California.
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