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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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Vol. 28 (3)
2024



Articles

Contingency conveniences: anticipation as a temporal practice of SEF inspectors at the Portuguese airport border

Mafalda Carapeto

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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Articles

Cotidiano e trajetórias vitais situadas de mulheres idosas (AMBA, província de Buenos Aires, Argentina): a incidência da pandemia de Covid-19

Ana Silvia Valero, María Gabriela Morgante y Julián Cueto

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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Articles

The reconfigurations of culture jamming in the digital environment: the case of anti-consumerism memes in the #antiblackfriday campaign (Brazil)

Liliane Moreira Ramos

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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Articles

Informal economies in Bairro Alto (Lisbon): the nocturnal tourist city explained through a street dealer’s life story

Jordi Nofre

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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Articles

A pame theory of force: the case of the xi'iui of the Sierra Gorda of Querétaro, Mexico

Imelda Aguirre Mendoza

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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Articles

Convergences and bifurcations in the biographies and autobiographies of indigenous intellectuals from Mexico and Brazil

Mariana da Costa Aguiar Petroni e Gabriel K. Kruell

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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Articles

The history through sacrifice and predation: tikmũ,ũn existential territory at the colonial crossroads

Douglas Ferreira Gadelha Campelo

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Articles

To grow up: affectionate imitation in the relations of Capuxu children with their animals

Emilene Leite de Sousa e Antonella Maria Imperatriz Tassinari

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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Articles

Biological science laboratories as practices: an ethnographic reading of plant anatomy at a University in the Caatinga (Bahia, Brazil)

Elizeu Pinheiro da Cruz e Iara Maria de Almeida Souza

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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Interdisciplinarities

Sensitive maps in abandoned territories of railway stations on the Brazil-Uruguay border

Vanessa Forneck e Eduardo Rocha

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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Multimodal Alt

A graphic ethnography as a form of affection and memory: afflictions, spirits, and healing processes in Zion churches in Maputo

Giulia Cavallo

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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Recursivities

Desanthropic ethnography: between apocryphal stories of water, deep dichotomies and liquid dwellings

Alejandro Vázquez Estrada e Eva Fernández

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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Argument

Anthropology of art, Anthropology – history, dilemmas, possibilities

Filipe Verde

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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Reviews

Um jovem caçador de lixo na Mafalala, nas décadas de 1960 e 1970

Diogo Ramada Curto

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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Reviews

Alberto Corsín Jiménez y Adolfo Estalella, Free Culture and the City: Hackers, Commoners, and Neighbors in Madrid, 1997-2017

Francisco Martínez

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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Interview

Interview with Rosa Maria Perez

Rosa Maria Perez, Inês Lourenço

15.10.2024

Interview with Rosa Maria Perez, anthropologist, integrated researcher at CRIA-Iscte, retired Professor in the Anthropology department at Iscte and Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India.

Starting with the experience of coming into contact with the discipline of anthropology, this interview covers the researcher's work in India, which began with her doctorate and resulted in the publication of ‘Kings and Untouchables. A study of the caste system in North-West India’ (translated into English by Orient Blackswan in 2004) and which has been consolidated into a specialisation in the context of India, particularly around issues of marginality, both social and gender. These were and are the leitmotif of his research, both in Gujarat and Goa. In Goa, the ethnographic realities studied by Rosa Maria Perez reveal complexities that contribute to the construction of a view that goes beyond the dominant perspective of studies that reduce this context to spaces of colonial memory. The interview also addresses the scarcity of methodological reflections on fieldwork done by women and with women in the context of India and its populations, and the need to counteract this silencing and give a voice to women, both researchers and participants in their research. It ends with a reflection on the role and impact of anthropology on society, given the potential of collaborative and public anthropology, combined with rigorous ethics, to denounce situations of human devaluation which, in the case of India as elsewhere, pose scientific and societal challenges for contemporary anthropology.

The interview was conducted by Inês Lourenço at the FCCN studios on 22 May 2024.

https://doi.org/10.25660/agora.0021kxm2-7f20

Entrevista a Rosa Maria Perez, antropóloga, investigadora integrada do CRIA-Iscte, Professora jubilada do departamento de Antropologia do Iscte e Professora no Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Índia.

Começando pela experiência de contacto com a disciplina da antropologia, esta entrevista estende-se pelo trabalho da investigadora na Índia, que teve início no seu doutoramento e que resultou na publicação de “Reis e Intocáveis. Um estudo do sistema de castas no Noroeste da Índia” (traduzido para inglês pela Orient Blackswan em 2004) e que se foi consolidando numa especialização no contexto da Índia, particularmente em torno de questões de marginalidade, quer social, quer de género. Estas foram e são o fio condutor das suas pesquisas, quer no Gujarate, quer em Goa. Em Goa, as realidades etnográficas estudadas por Rosa Maria Perez revelam complexidades que contribuem para a construção de um olhar que vai além da perspectiva dominante dos estudos que reduzem este contexto aos espaços de memória colonial. A entrevista aborda também a escassez de reflexões metodológicas sobre trabalho de campo feito por mulheres e com mulheres no contexto da Índia e das suas populações, e a necessidade de contrariar este silenciamento e de dar voz a mulheres, quer investigadoras, quer participantes nas suas investigações. Termina com uma reflexão sobre o papel e o impacto da antropologia na sociedade, dado o potencial da antropologia colaborativa e pública, aliado a uma ética rigorosa, para denunciar situações de desvalorização humana que, no caso da Índia, como noutros lugares, desempenham desafios científicos e societais para a antropologia contemporânea.

A entrevista foi conduzida por Inês Lourenço, e realizada nos estúdios da FCCN, a 22 de maio de 2024.

https://doi.org/10.25660/agora.0021kxm2-7f20

Entrevista a Rosa María Pérez, antropóloga, investigadora integrada en CRIA-Iscte, profesora jubilada del departamento de Antropología de Iscte y profesora del Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India.

Partiendo de la experiencia de entrar en contacto con la disciplina de la antropología, esta entrevista recorre el trabajo de la investigadora en la India, que comenzó con su doctorado y desembocó en la publicación de «Kings and Untouchables. A study of the caste system in North-West India» (traducido al inglés por Orient Blackswan en 2004) y que se ha consolidado en una especialización en el contexto de la India, en particular en torno a las cuestiones de marginalidad, tanto social como de género. Éstas fueron y son el leitmotiv de sus investigaciones, tanto en Gujarat como en Goa. En Goa, las realidades etnográficas estudiadas por Rosa María Pérez revelan complejidades que contribuyen a la construcción de una mirada que va más allá de la perspectiva dominante de los estudios que reducen este contexto a espacios de memoria colonial. La entrevista también aborda la escasez de reflexiones metodológicas sobre el trabajo de campo realizado por mujeres y con mujeres en el contexto de la India y sus poblaciones, y la necesidad de contrarrestar este silenciamiento y dar voz a las mujeres, tanto investigadoras como participantes en sus investigaciones. Concluye con una reflexión sobre el papel y el impacto de la antropología en la sociedad, dado el potencial de la antropología colaborativa y pública, combinada con una ética rigurosa, para denunciar situaciones de desvalorización humana que, en el caso de la India como en otros lugares, plantean retos científicos y sociales a la antropología contemporánea.

La entrevista fue realizada por Inês Lourenço en los estudios del FCCN el 22 de mayo de 2024.

https://doi.org/10.25660/agora.0021kxm2-7f20

Entretien avec Rosa Maria Perez, anthropologue, chercheur intégré au CRIA-Iscte, professeur retraité du département d'anthropologie de l'Iscte et professeur à l'Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, Inde.

Partant de l'expérience du contact avec la discipline anthropologique, cet entretien couvre le travail de la chercheuse en Inde, qui a commencé avec son doctorat et a abouti à la publication de « Kings and Untouchables. A study of the caste system in North-West India » (traduit en anglais par Orient Blackswan en 2004) et qui s'est consolidé en une spécialisation dans le contexte de l'Inde, notamment autour des questions de marginalité, tant sociale que de genre. Ces questions ont été et sont toujours le leitmotiv de ses recherches, tant au Gujarat qu'à Goa. À Goa, les réalités ethnographiques étudiées par Rosa Maria Perez révèlent des complexités qui contribuent à la construction d'un regard qui dépasse la perspective dominante des études qui réduisent ce contexte à des espaces de mémoire coloniale. L'entretien aborde également la rareté des réflexions méthodologiques sur le travail de terrain réalisé par les femmes et avec les femmes dans le contexte de l'Inde et de ses populations, et la nécessité de contrer ce silence et de donner la parole aux femmes, à la fois chercheuses et participantes à leurs recherches. Il se termine par une réflexion sur le rôle et l'impact de l'anthropologie sur la société, étant donné le potentiel de l'anthropologie collaborative et publique, combinée à une éthique rigoureuse, pour dénoncer les situations de dévalorisation humaine qui, dans le cas de l'Inde comme ailleurs, posent des défis scientifiques et sociétaux à l'anthropologie contemporaine.

L'entretien a été réalisé par Inês Lourenço dans les studios du FCCN le 22 mai 2024.

https://doi.org/10.25660/agora.0021kxm2-7f20

Presentation

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 Rosa Maria Perez, anthropologist, integrated researcher at CRIA-Iscte, retired Professor in the Anthropology department at Iscte and Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Gandhinagar, India.

Starting with the experience of coming into contact with the discipline of anthropology, this interview covers the researcher's work in India, which began with her doctorate and resulted in the publication of ‘Kings and Untouchables. A study of the caste system in North-West India’ (translated into English by Orient Blackswan in 2004) and which has been consolidated into a specialisation in the context of India, particularly around issues of marginality, both social and gender. These were and are the leitmotif of his research, both in Gujarat and Goa. In Goa, the ethnographic realities studied by Rosa Maria Perez reveal complexities that contribute to the construction of a view that goes beyond the dominant perspective of studies that reduce this context to spaces of colonial memory. The interview also addresses the scarcity of methodological reflections on fieldwork done by women and with women in the context of India and its populations, and the need to counteract this silencing and give a voice to women, both researchers and participants in their research. It ends with a reflection on the role and impact of anthropology on society, given the potential of collaborative and public anthropology, combined with rigorous ethics, to denounce situations of human devaluation which, in the case of India as elsewhere, pose scientific and societal challenges for contemporary anthropology.

The interview was conducted by Inês Lourenço at the FCCN studios on 22 May 2024.

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