Cristina Pompa

Cristina Pompa has been a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo - Brazil, since 2010. She was a senior researcher at the Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento - Cebrap (2001-2010) and professor at the University of São Paulo (USP) (2005-2010). Her research interests include anthropology and history, anthropology of religions, history of religions, indigenous missions and socio-religious movements.

The project

Titre: Prophetism and messianism in Brazil: ethnography and history

Anthropological and sociological literature has often pointed to the presence in Brazil of religious manifestations, attested since the 16th century, generally defined as "prophetic" or "messianic" movements.
Since the work of A. Métraux in the 1920s, ethnology has carried out a great deal of research into the migration of Tupi-Guarani Indians to the "Land without Evil", the mythical terrestrial paradise, the land of ancestors and great shamans, where "one does not die".
Later, researchers turned their attention to the religious movements, marked by eschatological and millenarian expectations, that occurred among peasant populations between 800 and 900. These expectations were generally linked to Sebastianism, the Portuguese messianic belief in the return to the throne of Portugal of the young King Sebastian I, who disappeared during the Battle of the Three Kings in Alcácer-Quibir, North Africa, in 1578, and who, according to legend, did not die.

Hosting institution: École Pratique des Hautes Études. Religious Sciences Section 

Selective Bibliography

• POMPA, C. "Indigenous Mobility in the Lowlands of South America". In: Antunes, K.; Tagliacozzo, E.. (Org.). The Cambridge History of Global Migrations. 1ed.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023, v. 1, p. 199-218.
• https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108767095
• POMPA, C. "Presença e ausência dos Indígenas na história do Brasil". In: Machado, A.; Macedo, V.. (Org.). Povos indígenas entre olhares. 1ed.São Paulo: Editora da Unifesp, Edições Sesc, 2022, v. , p. 179-199.
• POMPA, C. “Ernesto De Martino e o percurso italiano da antropologia.” Horizontes Antropológicos, v. 28, p. 317-349, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1590/S0104-71832022000100010
• POMPA, C. . 'Antropologia, história e religião. A obra de Raffaele Pettazzoni'. Debates do Ner, v. 37, p. 217-253, 2020. https://doi.org/10.22456/1982-8136.106710
• POMPA, C. . 'Raconter l’Indien. Quelques exemples dans la littérature brésilienne'. Litteratures, v. 77, p. 79-100, 2018.