Alberto Groisman from Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil is a visiting researcher to SAC this year.
During his visit Alberto will be working on a project: Psychoactive Sacraments, Religion and Mental Health: knowledge, agency and legal issues.
The inspiration for this visiting scholar appointment is to approach canons of knowledge production, particularly in the field of studies which articulates anthropology, public policies, mental health and psychiatry with the studies on the use of the so called psychoactive sacraments, which are obtained generally from a ritualized processing of plants and other organic resources.