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Vol. 29 (2)
2025



Articles

A puzzle Narcissus: ethnography faces delirium and “stays” at the Hotel da Loucura – Rio de Janeiro

Luciano von der Goltz Vianna

The present article starts from a debate that aims to understand how the disciplinary regimes of Anthropology lead the researcher to follow a protocol of questions and interests in his research. The objective here is to discuss the existing

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Articles

Por trás das crianças, dos objetos e dos cuises: agência e pesquisa em um bairro periurbano de Córdoba (Argentina)

Rocío Fatyass

Neste artigo retomo ideias emergentes de um projeto de pesquisa com crianças que acontece em um bairro periurbano da cidade de Villa Nueva (Córdoba, Argentina) e discuto a agência das crianças e sua participação na pesquisa em ciências

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Articles

The construction of knowledge about the Amazon ecosystem by a Brazilian scientific institution

Aline Moreira Magalhães

Since expeditions by naturalists in the 18th century, the production of modern knowledge about the flora and fauna of the Amazon has included people who know the ecosystem from experience. At the National Institute for Amazon Research (INPA),

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Interdisciplinarities

Living in a Siza house: the experience of auteur architecture in Malagueira, Évora

Juliana Pereira, Ana Catarina Costa, André Carmo, Eduardo Ascensão

This article draws on the genealogy of studies on the house in Portuguese Anthropology and Architecture as well as on recent perspectives coming from the Geographies of Architecture, to explore the way residents of auteur architecture experience

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Dossiê “Beyond penal populism: complexifying justice systems and security through qualitative lenses”

Introduction: Beyond penal populism: complexifying justice systems and security through qualitative lenses

Annabelle Dias Félix, Maria João Leote de Carvalho, Catarina Frois

In the global political landscape, as far-right parties gain prominence, populist rhetoric advocating for harsher justice and security policies is becoming increasingly prevalent. Proponents of this rhetoric base their discourse on “alarming”

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Dossiê “Beyond penal populism: complexifying justice systems and security through qualitative lenses”

Privatizing urban security: control, hospitality and suspicion in the Brazilian shopping

Susana Durão, Paola Argentin

In this article we argue that hospitality security – a modality that confuses control and care – operates through the actions of security guards in the creation of what we call pre-cases. From a dense ethnography accompanying these workers in a

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Dossiê “Beyond penal populism: complexifying justice systems and security through qualitative lenses”

“Police abuse, we face it every day”: ethnographic notes on racist police violence

Pedro Varela

Racist police violence is one of the most brutal facets of racism in our society, reflecting structures of power and oppression that marginalize sectors of our society. This paper emphasizes the importance of understanding this reality, highlighting

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Dossiê “Beyond penal populism: complexifying justice systems and security through qualitative lenses”

Marginality, security, surveillance, crime, imprisonment: reflections on an intellectual and methodological trajectory

Catarina Frois

This article engages with contemporary anthropological and ethnographic methodological debates by reflecting on the challenges of conducting research in contexts related with marginality, deviance, surveillance, and imprisonment. It examines the

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Dossiê “Beyond penal populism: complexifying justice systems and security through qualitative lenses”

Navigating the labyrinth: qualitative research in the securitized border regions of North Africa

Lydia Letsch

Qualitative researchers face unique challenges in the dynamic domain of border regions, particularly when venturing into highly securitized areas with a constant military presence, advanced surveillance, and restricted access zones. This article

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Memory

Uma vida, muitas vidas: entrevista com Victor Bandeira, etnógrafo e viajante

Rita Tomé, João Leal

Falecido recentemente, Victor Bandeira (1931-2024) desempenhou um papel fundamental no desenvolvimento da museologia etnográfica em Portugal. Foi graças às suas expedições a África (1960-1961, 1966, 1967), ao Brasil (1964-1965) e à Indonésia

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Lévi-Strauss Award

From the “note of condolence” to the “unjust aggression”: news about death written by the PMSC

Jo P. Klinkerfus

This paper is a reduced and synthesized version of the ethnography on PMSC Notícia, the news platform of the Military Police of Santa Catarina (PMSC). Based on news about death, dying and the dead published on the website in 2021, social

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Vol. 29 (1)
2025



Artigos

“Enough of this fake war”: ecologies of value, workers and environmentalists in Southern Italy

Antonio Maria Pusceddu

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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Artigos

“Preventing them from being adrift”: challenges for professional practice in the Argentinean mental health system for children and adolescents

Axel Levin

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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Artigos

Making Children: an iconography of the ibejadas in the centers, religious article shops, and factories of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Morena Freitas

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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Artigos

To migrate and to belong: intimacy, ecclesiastical absence, and playful competition in the Aymara Anata-Carnival of Chiapa (Chile)

Pablo Mardones

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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Artigos

Hauntology and nostalgia in the touristed landscapes of Sarajevo

Marta Roriz

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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Memory

David J. Webster in Mozambique: minimal epistolary (1971-1979)

Lorenzo Macagno

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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Dossier ‘Gender and Care in the Cape Verdean transnational experience’

Género e cuidados na experiência transnacional cabo-verdiana: introdução

Luzia Oca González, Fernando Barbosa Rodrigues and Iria Vázquez Silva

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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Dossier ‘Gender and Care in the Cape Verdean transnational experience’

“Vizinhu ta trocadu pratu ku kada casa”… Caring to avoid hunger in Brianda, Santiago Island, Cape Verde

Fernando Barbosa Rodrigues

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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Dossier ‘Gender and Care in the Cape Verdean transnational experience’

“Eu já aguentei muita gente nessa vida”: about care, gender, and generation in Cape Verdian families

Andréa Lobo and André Omisilê Justino

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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Dossier ‘Gender and Care in the Cape Verdean transnational experience’

Global care chains in Cape Verdean migrations: women who stay so that others can migrate

Luzia Oca González and Iria Vázquez Silva

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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Dossier ‘Gender and Care in the Cape Verdean transnational experience’

The difficult balance between work and life: care arrangements in three generations of Cape Verdean migrants

Keina Espiñeira González, Belén Fernández-Suárez and Antía Pérez-Caramés

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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Debate

Universal foreigners: the ‘ontological turn’ considered from a phenomenological perspective

Filipe Verde

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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Debate

Universos estrangeiros: ainda a polêmica virada ontológica na antropologia

Rogério Brittes W. Pires

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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Debate

Resposta a Rogério Pires

Filipe Verde

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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Debate

Da ontologia da fenomenologia na antropologia: ensaio de resposta

Rogério Brittes W. Pires

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

Note on the cover

Pedro Calapez

© 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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Interview

Interview with José Sobral

José Sobral, Patrícia Alves de Matos

02.07.2024

Interview with José Manuel Sobral, anthropologist and retired researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. The interview focused on the author's initial participation as a researcher in the "Vocabulário do Português Fundamental" (Vocabulary of Fundamental Portuguese) (1971-1974), and as a member of the research team for the "Linguistic Atlas of Europe" and the "Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Portugal and Galicia" (1975-1977) at the Linguistics Centre of the Universities of Lisbon, having travelled the country on fieldwork. The interview also covered the topics of the need for a historically informed anthropology; studies of the Portuguese rural world and the theoretical and methodological lens of social reproduction; the author's combined interest in studies of memory, national identity and nationalism; and his love of food studies as a way of thinking about the articulation of the local and the global in the context of social changes and transformations.

The interview was led by Patrícia Alves de Matos and took place at the FCCN studios on 7 March 2024.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25660/agora0017.4x9p-fj72
Entrevista com José Manuel Sobral, antropólogo e investigador jubilado do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. A entrevista focou-se na participação inicial do autor como investigador no “Vocabulário do Português Fundamental” (1971-1974), e enquanto membro da equipa de investigação do “Atlas Linguístico da Europa” e do “Atlas Linguístico e Etnográfico de Portugal e da Galiza” (1975-1977) no Centro de Linguística das Universidades de Lisboa, tendo percorrido o país em trabalho de campo. A entrevista abordou ainda os temas da necessidade de uma antropologia historicamente informada; os estudos do mundo rural português e a lente teórica e metodológica da reprodução social; o interesse conjugado do autor pelos estudos da memória, da identidade nacional e do nacionalismo; e o gosto pelos estudos da alimentação como forma de pensar a articulação do local e do global no contexto de mudanças e transformações sociais.

A entrevista foi conduzida por Patrícia Alves de Matos, e realizada nos estúdios da FCCN, a 7 de março de 2024.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25660/agora0017.4x9p-fj72

Entrevista con José Manuel Sobral, antropólogo e investigador jubilado del Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. La entrevista se centró en la participación inicial del autor como investigador en el "Vocabulário do Português Fundamental" (Vocabulario del Portugués Fundamental) (1971-1974), y como miembro del equipo de investigación del "Atlas Lingüístico de Europa" y del "Atlas Lingüístico y Etnográfico de Portugal y Galicia" (1975-1977) en el Centro de Lingüística de las Universidades de Lisboa, habiendo recorrido el país en trabajos de campo. En la entrevista también se abordaron los temas de la necesidad de una antropología históricamente informada; los estudios sobre el mundo rural portugués y la lente teórica y metodológica de la reproducción social; el interés combinado del autor por los estudios sobre la memoria, la identidad nacional y el nacionalismo; y su amor por los estudios sobre alimentación como forma de pensar la articulación de lo local y lo global en el contexto de los cambios y transformaciones sociales.

La entrevista fue realizada por Patrícia Alves de Matos y tuvo lugar en los estudios de FCCN el 7 de marzo de 2024.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25660/agora0017.4x9p-fj72
Entretien avec José Manuel Sobral, anthropologue et chercheur retraité de l'Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. L'entretien a porté sur la participation initiale de l'auteur en tant que chercheur au "Vocabulário do Português Fundamental" (Vocabulaire du portugais fondamental) (1971-1974), et en tant que membre de l'équipe de recherche pour l'"Atlas linguistique de l'Europe" et l'"Atlas linguistique et ethnographique du Portugal et de la Galice" (1975-1977) au Centre de linguistique des universités de Lisbonne, après avoir parcouru le pays pour des travaux de terrain. L'entretien a également porté sur la nécessité d'une anthropologie historiquement informée, sur les études du monde rural portugais et sur le prisme théorique et méthodologique de la reproduction sociale, sur l'intérêt combiné de l'auteur pour les études sur la mémoire, l'identité nationale et le nationalisme, et sur son amour des études sur l'alimentation comme moyen de penser l'articulation du local et du global dans le contexte des changements et des transformations sociales.

L'entretien a été mené par Patrícia Alves de Matos et s'est déroulé dans les studios du FCCN le 7 mars 2024.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.25660/agora0017.4x9p-fj72
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The interview is the most genuine way of confronting an author with his or her career and ideas. It is true that with the generalisation of the evaluation of scientific work by other academics, authors are often confronted with what they have written, but this mediation always escapes the scrutiny of the reader. It's a process that ends in a direct but private interaction, quite the opposite of what happens in an interview. In this case, at least that's the sense in which this section is conceived, the interviewee is confronted with his/her/their ideas, his/her/their academic and scientific career, the way he/she/them sees the challenges facing anthropology today. We want to emphasise mediation, which means we want to make this feature a space where the reader can see themselves in the dialogue, in other words, they can see themselves in the questions put to the interviewee. It's not an easy challenge to overcome, but that's why we've designed this section to be open, receptive to proposals and contributions that not only enrich it, but also allow us to diversify our perspectives and understandings. In this sense, it is a challenge that cannot fail to involve all of us.


Interview with José Manuel Sobral, anthropologist and retired researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences. The interview focused on the author's initial participation as a researcher in the "Vocabulário do Português Fundamental" (Vocabulary of Fundamental Portuguese) (1971-1974), and as a member of the research team for the "Linguistic Atlas of Europe" and the "Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Portugal and Galicia" (1975-1977) at the Linguistics Centre of the Universities of Lisbon, having travelled the country on fieldwork. The interview also covered the topics of the need for a historically informed anthropology; studies of the Portuguese rural world and the theoretical and methodological lens of social reproduction; the author's combined interest in studies of memory, national identity and nationalism; and his love of food studies as a way of thinking about the articulation of the local and the global in the context of social changes and transformations.


The interview was led by Patrícia Alves de Matos and took place at the FCCN studios on 7 March 2024.

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