Abstract: This article aims to provide an engaged analysis of some of the main works and themes addressed by Patricia Birman throughout her career. The text highlights her contributions to Brazilian Anthropology, focusing on her studies of Religion and Urban Peripheries. Prioritizing Birman's intellectual operation of the ideas of borders, plots, and entanglements, the article addresses issues regarding the religious and the secular; religion and public space; territories, violence, and urban plots; and the boundaries of the human. This work is a tribute in the form of an academic and affective textual record of a dialogue between Patricia Birman and the author of the text, who was her student, and whose work is marked by these questions.
Keywords:
Borders; Religion, Public Space; Territory; Violence