Articles
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
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“The Chinese are universal, they're invading everywhere”: rumours and tensions surrounding the Chinese presence in Cape Verdean trade
Rumours, hearsay and gossip are a constitutive part of societies and play a fundamental role in coercing, controlling and disciplining individuals in the search for social cohesion. They tend to emerge at times of social tension and civilisational
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Reflexivity and politics in the ethnographic text: representations and effects of writing
In 2020, one year after a research that had as its main objective to analyze, comparatively, the cycles of sugarcane workers’ strikes in Pernambuco, and metalworkers of São Paulo and ABC Paulista, that occurred in the late 1970’s, we returned
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The legal persecution of homosexuality in the Iberian Peninsula: 19th and 20th centuries
The legal framework that underpins the persecution of homosexuality in Portugal and in the Spanish State appears before the beginning of the Iberian dictatorships. In Portugal, for example, the I Republic creates legislation against “those who
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Needs, rights and languages: an ethnographic study about inhabiting and making of citizenship in Buenos Aires
This article links the issues of the inhabit and housing rights with that of the making of citizenship, which are explored from an anthropological perspective. It is based on the ethographic work developed between 2015-2020 with the inhabitants of a
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“An evil hand”: on abolitionist feminists, sex workers and epistemic violence in Argentina
In June 2020, the Argentine Ministry of Development launched the National Registry of Popular Economy (ReNaTEP) which, among other categories, included sex workers and strippers. Sex workers’ organizations celebrated the possibility of registering
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Integrating refugees and migrants into higher education in Portugal? An action research experience in a Portuguese university
This article results from research comprised of fieldwork ethnography, participant observation, collection of life stories, interviews and testimonials of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants, living in Portugal. We focus on a particular experience
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Liberdade para desejar
Parte do nosso compromisso no trabalho etnográfico é o de reconhecer nossos interlocutores como sujeitos de desejo. Mesmo que esses desejos, escolhas e vontades não sejam aqueles entendidos por nós, pesquisadores, como “bons”, “melhores”
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Uma década e muitos acontecimentos depois: o que (re)ler dos possíveis liberalismos minoritários?
A partir de um investimento etnográfico denso, o livro Minoritarian Liberalism: A Travesti Life in the Brazilian Favela, de Moisés Lino e Silva, traz interessantes reflexões a respeito dos limites ao (suposto) caráter universal e inequívoco em
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Neoliberalism, universities, and anthropology around the world: introduction
The idea for this dossier began with a conversation over one of those long breakfasts given at conferences. It was 2014 and the blows of the 2008 economic crisis were still being felt strongly. There was growing concern in the academic field over
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“Useless degrees”, quality assurance, and employable graduates: neoliberal effects on University Education in Kenya
At a time when it is critical to understand humanity and its various forms of socioeconomic and political life, anthropology and other social sciences are being threatened by a neoliberal emphasis on “relevant” courses in universities in Kenya.
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Anthropology from different angles: a tale of the neoliberal arts
A discipline’s value depends on the institutional position of its valuers. In U.S. liberal arts undergraduate education, trustees, marketers, and parents routinely link disciplinary value to “return on investment”. This market logic is evident
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Knowledge politics and labor precariousness in Spanish universities: implications for social anthropology
Neoliberal reforms arising from Spain’s entrance into the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) have had major consequences for academic practice and unleashed heated debate in the university community and society. This article explores the main
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The deterioration of anthropological work in Mexico during the 21st century
This article analyzes how the working conditions for Mexican anthropologists have deteriorated throughout the last few decades. Until half a century ago, only a few dozen professional anthropologists practiced in Mexico, and most of them had access
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Hong Kong anthropologists within global neoliberalism and national and local politics
There are global neoliberal pressures on the academy that are more or less faced by anthropologists around the world. To what extent are anthropologists required to publish in English in SSCI-ranked journals to keep their jobs and get promoted? But
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Ramon Sarró, Inventing an Alphabet: Writing, Art, and Kongo Culture in the DRC
This is a truly innovative ethnography about writing; a worthy anthropological response to Derrida’s deconstruction of the notion. It centers on the encounter between two marginal creators: a brilliant geometrician from Africa, and a seasoned
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Fazer antropologia na boca do urso
Fazer antropologia na boca do urso, sem descrições densas ou contextos teóricos, apenas numa dialética simples entre tensões do mundo ocidental “capitalista” e as cosmologias animistas do Norte. Uma pretensão que leva a antropóloga
[+]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