Artigos
“Enough of this fake war”: ecologies of value, workers and environmentalists in Southern Italy
This article mobilizes the ecologies of value as a conceptual framework to account for the conflicts, contradictions and dilemmas arousing from the experience of the contemporary socio-ecological crisis. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in Brindisi,
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“Preventing them from being adrift”: challenges for professional practice in the Argentinean mental health system for children and adolescents
This ethnographic article addresses the difficulties, practices, and strategies of the professionals of the only Argentine hospital fully specialized in the treatment of mental health problems of children and adolescents. More specifically, it
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Making Children: an iconography of the ibejadas in the centers, religious article shops, and factories of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The ibejadas are childlike entities that, alongside the caboclos, pretos-velhos, exus, and pombagiras, inhabit the umbanda pantheon. In religious centers, these entities manifest through colorful images, joyful sung chants and an abundance of sweets
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To migrate and to belong: intimacy, ecclesiastical absence, and playful competition in the Aymara Anata-Carnival of Chiapa (Chile)
The article analyzes the Anata-Carnival festivity celebrated in the Andean town of Chiapa in the Tarapacá Region, Great North of Chile. I suggest that this celebration constitutes one of the main events that promote the reproduction of feelings of
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Hauntology and nostalgia in the touristed landscapes of Sarajevo
Drawing on anthropological and ethnographic developments in the study of urban tourism, this essay offers a description of Sarajevo’s tourist landscapes from the perspective of an ethnographic tourist, detailing how time is inscribed in the
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David J. Webster in Mozambique: minimal epistolary (1971-1979)
The article comments on, contextualizes and transcribes the epistolary exchange between social anthropologist David J. Webster (1945-1989) and ethnologist and Portuguese colonial official António Rita-Ferreira (1922-2014) between 1971 and 1979.
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Género e cuidados na experiência transnacional cabo-verdiana: introdução
Neste dossiê sobre o género e os cuidados na comunidade transnacional cabo-verdiana, as leitoras e leitores encontrarão os resultados de diferentes etnografias feitas tanto em Cabo Verde como nos países de destino da sua diáspora no sul da
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“Vizinhu ta trocadu pratu ku kada casa”… Caring to avoid hunger in Brianda, Santiago Island, Cape Verde
Taking the ethnographic field as a starting point – the interior of the island of Santiago in the Republic of Cabo Verde – and basing on participant observation and the collection of testimonies from the local inhabitants of Brianda, this
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“Eu já aguentei muita gente nessa vida”: about care, gender, and generation in Cape Verdian families
This article reflects on the care category when crossed by the dynamics of gender and generation in Cape Verde. The act of caring is of fundamental importance for family dynamics in this society, which is marked by mobilities of multiple orders –
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Global care chains in Cape Verdean migrations: women who stay so that others can migrate
This article is based on fieldwork conducted with women of four generations, belonging to five families living in the locality of Burela (Galicia) and their domestic groups originating from the island of Santiago. We present three ethnographic
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The difficult balance between work and life: care arrangements in three generations of Cape Verdean migrants
The reconciliation of the personal, work and family spheres of migrants is an emerging issue in migration studies, with concepts such as the transnational family and global care chains. In this contribution we analyse the strategies deployed by
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Universal foreigners: the ‘ontological turn’ considered from a phenomenological perspective
This article questions the consistency, reasonableness, and fruitfulness of the methodological proposals and idea of anthropological knowledge of the “ontological turn” in anthropology. Taking as its starting point the book manifesto produced by
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Universos estrangeiros: ainda a polêmica virada ontológica na antropologia
O artigo “Estrangeiros universais”, de Filipe Verde, apresenta uma crítica ao que chama de “viragem ontológica” na antropologia, tomando o livro The Ontological Turn, de Holbraad e Pedersen (2017), como ponto de partida (2025a: 252).1 O
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Resposta a Rogério Pires
Se há evidência que a antropologia sempre reconheceu é a de que o meio em que somos inculturados molda de forma decisiva a nossa compreensão do mundo e de nós mesmos. Isso é assim para a própria antropologia e, portanto, ser antropólogo é
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Da ontologia da fenomenologia na antropologia: ensaio de resposta
Um erro do construtivismo clássico é postular que verdades alheias seriam construídas socialmente, mas as do próprio enunciador não. Que minha visão de mundo, do fazer antropológico e da ciência sejam moldadas por meu ambiente – em
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Note on the cover
© Pedro Calapez. 2023. (Pormenor) Díptico B; Técnica e Suporte: Acrílico sobre tela colada em MDF e estrutura em madeira. Dimensões: 192 x 120 x 4 cm. Imagem gentilmente cedidas pelo autor. Créditos fotográficos: MPPC / Pedro
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Contingency conveniences: anticipation as a temporal practice of SEF inspectors at the Portuguese airport border
This article follows from ethnographic work conducted at an airport in Portugal, where, from June 2021 to April 2022, I observed the daily routines of the inspectors of the Portuguese Immigration and Borders Service (SEF) across various groups,
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Cotidiano e trajetórias vitais situadas de mulheres idosas (AMBA, província de Buenos Aires, Argentina): a incidência da pandemia de Covid-19
Este trabalho pretende dar conta das interseções entre diferentes aspetos da vida quotidiana e das trajetórias de vida das pessoas idosas num espaço de bairro e a incidência da pandemia de Covid-19. Baseia-se no desenvolvimento sustentado,
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The reconfigurations of culture jamming in the digital environment: the case of anti-consumerism memes in the #antiblackfriday campaign (Brazil)
In this article, I discuss the reconfigurations of the phenomenon known as culture jamming, characteristic of the communicative dimension of political consumption, based on the appropriation of Internet memes as a tool to criticize consumption.
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Informal economies in Bairro Alto (Lisbon): the nocturnal tourist city explained through a street dealer’s life story
The historical neighbourhood of Bairro Alto is the city’s most iconic nightlife destination, especially for tourists visiting Lisbon (Portugal). The expansion of commercial nightlife in this area has been accompanied by the increasing presence of
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A pame theory of force: the case of the xi'iui of the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro, Mexico
This text analyzes the term of force (mana’ap) as a native concept formulated by the pames (xi’iui) of the Sierra Gorda de Querétaro. This is related to aspects such as blood, food, cold, hot, air and their effects on the body. It is observed
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Convergences and bifurcations in the biographies and autobiographies of indigenous intellectuals from Mexico and Brazil
In this article we present an exercise of reflection on the challenges involved in writing and studying the biographies and autobiographies of indigenous intellectuals in different geographical, historical and political scenarios: Mexico and Brazil,
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The history through sacrifice and predation: tikmũ,ũn existential territory at the colonial crossroads
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To grow up: affectionate imitation in the relations of Capuxu children with their animals
This paper analyzes the experiences of Capuxu children with the animals they interact with daily, looking for un understanding about how children’s relationships with these companion species cross the Capuxu sociality, including the onomastic
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Biological science laboratories as practices: an ethnographic reading of plant anatomy at a University in the Caatinga (Bahia, Brazil)
Anchored in notes elaborated in a multispecies ethnography, this text formulates a reading of biological science laboratories as situating practices of human and non-human actors. For this, the authors bring up plants from/in the caatinga,
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Sensitive maps in abandoned territories of railway stations on the Brazil-Uruguay border
The research maps and investigates the territories created by the abandonment of railway stations, a process that has been accentuated since the 1980s, in the twin cities of Jaguarão-Rio Branco and Santana do Livramento-Rivera, on the
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A graphic ethnography as a form of affection and memory: afflictions, spirits, and healing processes in Zion churches in Maputo
In 2016, three years after completing my Ph.D., I embarked on my first attempt to translate my ethnographic research conducted in Maputo, among the Zion communities, into a graphic language. Through a series of single illustrations, I aimed to
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Desanthropic ethnography: between apocryphal stories of water, deep dichotomies and liquid dwellings
In this text we address the possibility of deconstructing the relationships – that have water as a resource available to humans – that have ordered some dichotomies such as anthropos-nature, establishing that there are methodologies, theories
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Anthropology of art, Anthropology – history, dilemmas, possibilities
In this essay, I first aim to pinpoint the factors that have historically marginalized art within anthropological thought. I propose that this marginalization stems from two main influences: the aesthetic conception of art and the metaphysical
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Um jovem caçador de lixo na Mafalala, nas décadas de 1960 e 1970
Celso Mussane (1957-) é um pastor evangélico moçambicano. Licenciou-se na Suécia (1994) e tirou o curso superior de Teologia Bíblica na Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Paraná, em Londrina no Brasil (2018). Entre 2019 e 2020, publicou
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Alberto Corsín Jiménez y Adolfo Estalella, Free Culture and the City: Hackers, Commoners, and Neighbors in Madrid, 1997-2017
Este libro tiene tres dimensiones analíticas: primero, es una etnografía del movimiento de cultura libre en Madrid. Segundo, es un estudio histórico sobre la traducción de lo digital a lo urbano, favoreciendo una nueva manera de posicionarse en
[+]INCLUSION-EXCLUSION: Texts from the Ethnographic Writing Workshop
30.03.2025
Having land and being from the land: two complementary meanings
30.03.2025
Ecologies of sustainability and networks of solidarity: knowledge and practices in the Valley of Thorns (Ecuador) and Ribeira Valley, São Paulo (Brazil)
29.03.2025
Sensitive maps in the abandoned territories of railway stations on the Brazil-Uruguay border
05.03.2025
Interview with Elena Mazzi
25.02.2025
Fragments of the imagined clay
12.12.2024
The tone of botany: a note on the sensitivity of knowledge
26.11.2024
Audiovisual genealogies, poetics and Afro-indigenous memories: through the lens of artists-researchers from Ecuador and Brazil
16.11.2024
Make sure you don't get wet... if you catch the virus, who will take care of me?
15.11.2024
Interview with Rosa Maria Perez
15.10.2024
The provincialization of orthodox economic projects: porosities, relations and moralities
24.09.2024
Land and wasteland
22.08.2024
Building Afro-indigenous affective networks: women, education, and activism in Latin America
17.07.2024
The yellow brick road I walk as an ethnographer
11.07.2024
25 April, always!
03.07.2024
Interview with José Sobral
02.07.2024
Observing land transformation in Portugal
25.06.2024
In the City of Shadows: moving in the face of violence in Veracruz
20.06.2024
Indigenous archaeologies, territories, and human rights: dialogues among representatives of the Tupi Guarani, Tuxá, and Eastern Pequot
21.05.2024
It's because I miss you that I'm skinny: male (re)encounters in the Bolivian Chaco
18.04.2024
The War Against Gaza: Genocide, Geopolitics and Anthropology
27.03.2024
Missing girls: the sexual exploitation of children in the form of self-managed internal trafficking
13.03.2024
Anthropology in Arabic: beyond the discursive monopoly
12.03.2024
The corner of the "calabaceira": encounters, affections and ethnography in the "Vale"
05.03.2024
Wandering through the past with an eviscerated present: looking at Gaza through the archives
04.03.2024
Interview with Caroline Brettell
27.02.2024
(Re)encontrar Sousa Martins
06.02.2024
A decade and many events later: what can we (re)read about possible minority liberalisms?
06.02.2024
“Over there”: on the relative legibility of the cityscape
23.01.2024
The value of confession and the exercise of justice
06.12.2023
Seeing like a routier: routiers’ borderscapes between Southern Europe and West Africa
22.11.2023
Relational ethics and care for the world
16.11.2023
We are all curmanos
10.10.2023
Nombres de lugar: el espíritu
10.10.2023
Interview with João Leal
03.10.2023
Etnographing the underground: notes and inspirations from the text by Francisco Martínez
28.09.2023
What Else Can We Do with/in Holes?
28.09.2023
From basement to de-basement? A probing response to opacity
21.09.2023
Identity(ies) and negotiation: the dance of dressing and undressing, undressing and dressing (or not).
19.09.2023
Where the Story Begins Anew
29.08.2023
Gender, sexuality and ourselves
25.08.2023
Freedom to desire
28.06.2023
Lights Out. Practicing Opacity in Estonian Basements
21.06.2023
Confusing maps: notes on new energy territorialities in Portugal and Europe
21.06.2023