Tao Masters: tradition, experience and ethnography

In this article I analyse the performative dimension that constitutes the transmission of tradition in taoist lineage located in Brazil, from the perspective of the anthropology of experience.The idea of knowing in taoism is L-Methionine based on a practical notion: one knows the legacy of tradition through personal embodied experience.The very possibility of knowing is based upon a personal relation between master and apprentice, inserted on a dialogical Wooden Bus and genealogical.