was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1980. He holds a Bachelors in Social Sciences
from UERJ where he participated from 1999 to 2001 in the Project for Scientific
Initiatives entitled, “The Act of Presentation: Communication, Culture
and Interaction,” for which he investigated the implicit logic in
material exchanges between middle class youth and the emotions aroused
in these situations. He later joined the Project called MusikFabrik, in
which he researched and developed the production of different musical
instruments originating from different cultural contexts and relating
musical and cultural languages. He began his research into psychoactive
substances with his senior thesis called “Rastafari Pilgrimage:
An Anthropological Perspective on the Congo Nya Foundation in Brazil”
(“Peregrinação Rastafari: uma perspectiva antropológica
sobre a Fundação Congo Nya no Brasil”). In this work
he looked at symbolic space in the Jamaican religious philosophy and laid
ground for future researchers of this topic. To introduce the topic, he
treated the cosmology and the history of the Rastafari religious movement
and then developed an ethnography based on participant observation and
interviews done with a nomadic Rastafari group from the Guianas traveling
through Brazil with the missionary goal of propagating their culture.
In 2005 he obtained his Masters in Social Sciences from UERJ, where he
participated in the research initiative Perspectives on Subjectivity and
developed a project on the relationship between body, emotion and music
in the religious phenomenon of Santo Daime, more specifically in the Igreja
Céu do Mar – RJ, the first Daime church outside of the Amazon.
Rehen, Lucas Kastrup.
Peregrinação Rastafari: uma perspectiva antropológica
sobre a Fundação Congo Nya no Brasil. Monografia de conclusão
do curso de Graduação em Ciências Sociais, UERJ, 2004.