The face, the portrait and the ambiguity of the Sacred

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https://doi.org/10.5380/cra.v23i2.84044

Keywords:

Visual anthropology, Sacred, Portrait, Ritual, Carnival

Abstract

What effect do face and portrait have on sacred experience? To answer this question, we present a set of images of people, artifacts, and situations that are heterogeneous among themselves to trace cartography of the relations between the face, its photographic capture, and the sensitive forms of expression of the sacred in its religious and festive manifestations. Through the register of certain characters in ritual spaces and times, whether inside or outside the country, and in dialogue with reflections from the field of anthropology, we mapped what would unify the different modalities of relationship established with the human face and its communicative power.

Author Biographies

Edilson Pereira, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Escola de Comunicação, Rio de Janeiro/RJ, Brasil

Doutor em Antropologia Social pelo Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (MN/UFRJ) e Professor da Escola de Comunicação da Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ).

Paola Lins de Oliveira, Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF), Departamento de Artes e Estudos Culturais, Rio das Ostras/RJ, Brasil

Doutora em Antropologia Cultural pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) e Professora do Departamento de Artes e Estudos Culturais da Universidade Federal Fluminense (UFF).

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2022-12-21

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Pereira, E., & Lins de Oliveira, P. (2022). The face, the portrait and the ambiguity of the Sacred. Campos - Revista De Antropologia, 23(2), 187–202. https://doi.org/10.5380/cra.v23i2.84044

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Vol. 23 No. 2 (2022)

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Ensaios etnofotográficos

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