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TEIXEIRA, Leônia Cavalcante et al. Figurações do corpo nos ex-votos: a devoção entre psicanálise e antropologia. Rev. Mal-Estar Subj. [online]. 2010, vol.10, n.1, pp.283-301. ISSN 1518-6148.

This study investigated the representations of the body mediated by religious beliefs and by popular knowledge and practices regarding the processes of health and disease from the ex-voto, focusing on the parts of the body experience in the formation of the singularity and the social bond, accentuating the body figure in the objects donated as thanks for cures of diseases or problems caused by physical accidents. We discussed the meanings of the bodies figured as ex-votos, favoring the psychoanalytical ideas in the interfaces with anthropology. The methodology consisted of a qualitative study with no interest in statistical generalization, being approved by the Ethics Committee. Five devotees of São Francisco de Assis who practiced the giving of ex-votos were interviewed making use of a semi-structured script. They were approached by researchers in the vicinity of the Basílica de São Francisco de Assis in Canindé-CE. The reports were analyzed according to Bardin's approach. With the purpose of methodological delimitation, this article deals with corporeity in the votive practice, focusing on body representations that devotees build up and express with the offering objects. The stress of our reflection has fallen on account of investments in different parts of the body and its implications on the ways of representing the lack of health with votive practice, focusing on the corporeity.

Palabras clave : Psychoanalysis; Ex-voto; Body; Religion; Anthropology.

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