Manipulating socialities: people, mistérios and ritual offerings
Keywords:
Tactile contact, Ritual practices, Spirits, Person, Dominican Republic,Abstract
This article presents ethnographic descriptions about ritual offerings (artifacts, drinks and foods, for example) to the spirits so-called mistérios by people from Dominican Republic. Some of these offerings are described to discuss how Dominicans interlocutors engage themselves with substances and artifacts in which are articulated knowledge about lives, landscape and sensory making. Through such engagements some people embodying more than spirits. What came from these tactile contacts (sensory in general) are certain relations, their effects and possibilities of transformation in actuality.