Land and wasteland
Diego Amoedo
22.08.2024
50 years on, what has happened to the land? In addition to the profound political and social changes that the 25th of April brought to Portugal, there were also important changes in the social
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Building Afro-indigenous affective networks: women, education, and activism in Latin America
Katherine Chalá [1], Daniela Balanzátegui [2], Valentina Romero [3], Catarina Nimbopyruá Delfina dos Santos [4], María Celeste Sánchez Sugía [5], Watatakalu Yawalapiti [6], Maria John [7], Marianne Sallum [8]
17.07.2024
Social movements and grassroots organizations led by indigenous and afro-descendant women in Latin America play a central role in defending human and civil rights, highlighting territorial and environmental rights,
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25 April, always!
03.07.2024
Etnográfica celebrates the 50th anniversary of 25 April 1974. We wanted to associate an artistic (musical) proposal with this outstanding edition, an Agora's exclusive content:
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Indigenous archaeologies, territories, and human rights: dialogues among representatives of the Tupi Guarani, Tuxá, and Eastern Pequot
Yacunã Tuxá [1], Natasha Gambrell [2], Luã Apyká [3], Blaire Morseau [4], Stephen W. Silliman [5], Daniela Balanzátegui [6], Marianne Sallum [7]
21.05.2024
In recent decades, a global solidarity movement among various Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants, and traditional communities has grown, united to defend and preserve their territories and linguistic diversity.
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(Re)encontrar Sousa Martins
Vincenzo Scamardella
06.02.2024
This tale is an ethnofiction about a contemporary and individual research for supernatural help that has its roots in the childhood memories of the protagonist. In this story, the fictional character of Miguel who is inspired by encounters that I
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Relational ethics and care for the world
Jarrett Zigon
16.11.2023
In the inaugural contribution to this section, Jarrett Zigon challenges the anthropology limits of relativizing and localizing. Based on the phenomenological-hermeneutic tradition, he proposes an anthropology of
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We are all curmanos
Ramón Sarró
10.10.2023
Starting from an analysis of the novel "El bosque de Ancines" by Galician writer Carlos Martínez-Barbeito, and his fascination with woods and wolves and other archetypes, the author examines the concept of the "curmano". What is a curmano? Are we
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Nombres de lugar: el espíritu
Ramón Sarró
10.10.2023
The name transforms the space into a singular place and, in particular, the religious name defines and constructs the identity of the place in a profound way. In this essay, the author combines landscape, language and religion to reflect on the
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What Else Can We Do with/in Holes?
Tamta Khalvashi
28.09.2023
“Where is a bunker?” This question started to haunt many of us in Georgian cities, when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Quest for bunkers, basements and shelters, for spaces of both opacity and
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Gender, sexuality and ourselves
Miguel Vale de Almeida
25.08.2023
In Portugal, the social sciences and humanities have been very resistant to the development of gender and sexuality studies. While the country's peripheral status and the advent of democracy only in 1974 may explain this phenomenon, the same delay,
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Freedom to desire
Victor Hugo de Souza Barreto
28.06.2023
In this first edition of “A book and his critics”, we discuss Moisés Lino e Silva’s (Federal University of Bahia) recent book "Minoritarian Liberalism. A Travesti Life in a Brazilian Favela (2022)", which, based on ethnographic fieldwork in
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