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Vol. 29 (2)
2025



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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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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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“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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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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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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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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INCLUSION-EXCLUSION: Texts from the Ethnographic Writing Workshop

Gianmarco Marzola

João Afonso Baptista

30.03.2025

This collection aims to capture the collective, experimental and creative spirit of the Ethnographic Writing Workshop held in the spring of 2024 by the ‘Diversities: Ethnographies in the Contemporary World’ research group at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. The workshop had 12 participants, some of whom were new to ethnographic writing. Each participant plunged into their empirical experiences as a new heuristic and epistemological adventure, demonstrating exceptional commitment and impressive dedication. The texts presented are the result of work carried out over the course of three sessions and continued outside of them, driven by the discussions and activities developed during these meetings. During the sessions, each participant wrote their own text and contributed to their colleagues' texts, discussing critical issues that emerge in ethnographic practice and suggesting new approaches after carefully reading the texts. On two occasions, the workshop was attended by two guests who significantly enriched the ethnographic creative process. The second session was attended by Felipe Milanez, from the Federal University of Bahia, and the third by Humberto Martins, from the University of Alto Douro and Trás-os-Montes. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25660/agora0031.bsqb-np02
ecosystems, gastronomy, Amerindian shamanism, Lagoa de Albufeira, Luso-Congolese biographies, Martim Moniz, monuments, neurodiversity, Kurdish diaspora, food support, contraception, bipolarity
Esta coletânea visa capturar o espírito coletivo, experimental e criativo da Oficina de Escrita Etnográfica, realizada na primavera de 2024 pelo grupo de investigação “Diversidades: Etnografias no mundo contemporâneo” do Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa. A oficina contou com 12 participantes, alguns e algumas dxs quais iniciantes na escrita etnográfica. Cada participante mergulhou nas suas experiências empíricas como uma nova aventura heurística e epistemológica, demonstrando um comprometimento excecional e uma dedicação impressionante. Os textos apresentados são o resultado do trabalho realizado ao longo de três sessões e continuado fora delas, impulsionado pelas discussões e atividades desenvolvidas durante esses encontros. Durante as sessões, cada participante escreveu o seu próprio texto e contribuiu para os textos dxs colegas, discutindo questões críticas que emergem na prática etnográfica e sugerindo novas abordagens após a leitura atenta dos textos. Em duas ocasiões, a oficina contou com a participação de dois convidados que enriqueceram significativamente o processo criativo etnográfico. Na segunda sessão, tivemos a presença do Felipe Milanez (UFBA); na terceira sessão, do Humberto Martins (UTAD). DOI: https://doi.org/10.25660/agora0031.bsqb-np02
ecossistemas, gastronomia, xamanismo ameríndio, Lagoa de Albufeira, biografias luso-congolesas, Martim Moniz, monumentos, neurodiversidade, diáspora curda, apoio alimentar, contraceção, bipolaridade
Esta colección pretende recoger el espíritu colectivo, experimental y creativo del Taller de Escritura Etnográfica celebrado en la primavera de 2024 por el grupo de investigación «Diversidades: Etnografías en el Mundo Contemporáneo» del Instituto de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Lisboa. El taller contó con 12 participantes, algunxs de lxs cuales se iniciaban en la escritura etnográfica. Cada participante se sumergió en sus experiencias empíricas como una nueva aventura heurística y epistemológica, demostrando un compromiso excepcional y una dedicación impresionante. Los textos presentados son el resultado de un trabajo realizado a lo largo de tres sesiones y continuado fuera de ellas, impulsado por las discusiones y actividades desarrolladas durante estos encuentros. Durante las sesiones, cada participante escribió su propio texto y contribuyó a los textos de sus colegas, debatiendo cuestiones críticas que surgen en la práctica etnográfica y sugiriendo nuevos enfoques tras leer detenidamente los textos. En dos ocasiones, el taller contó con la presencia de dos invitados que enriquecieron significativamente el proceso creativo etnográfico. La segunda sesión contó con la presencia de Felipe Milanez (UFBA), y la tercera con la de Humberto Martins (UTAD). DOI: https://doi.org/10.25660/agora0031.bsqb-np02
ecosistemas, gastronomía, chamanismo amerindio, Lagoa de Albufeira, biografías luso-congoleñas, Martim Moniz, monumentos, neurodiversidad, diáspora kurda, apoyo alimentario, anticoncepción, bipolaridad
Cette collection vise à capturer l'esprit collectif, expérimental et créatif de l'atelier d'écriture ethnographique organisé au printemps 2024 par le groupe de recherche « Diversités : Ethnographies dans le monde contemporain » à l'Institut des sciences sociales de l'Université de Lisbonne. L'atelier comptait 12 participant(e)s, dont certains étaient novices en matière d'écriture ethnographique. Chaque participant(e) s’est plongé(e) dans ses expériences empiriques comme dans une nouvelle aventure heuristique et épistémologique, faisant preuve d'un engagement exceptionnel et d'un dévouement impressionnant. Les textes présentés sont le résultat d'un travail réalisé au cours de trois sessions et poursuivi en dehors de celles-ci, sous l'impulsion des discussions et des activités développées lors de ces rencontres. Pendant les sessions, chaque participant(e) a écrit son propre texte et a contribué aux textes de ses collègues, discutant des questions critiques qui émergent dans la pratique ethnographique et suggérant de nouvelles approches après avoir lu attentivement les textes. À deux reprises, l'atelier a bénéficié de la présence de deux invités qui ont considérablement enrichi le processus de création ethnographique. Felipe Milanez (UFBA) a participé à la deuxième session et Humberto Martins (UTAD), à la troisième. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25660/agora0031.bsqb-np02
écosystèmes, gastronomie, chamanisme amérindien, Lagoa de Albufeira, biographies luso-congolaises, Martim Moniz, monuments, neurodiversité, diaspora kurde, soutien alimentaire, contraception, bipolarité
Lado B presents unpublished texts in a non-academic format, with authorial and editorial freedom. Authors are invited to share unpublished texts kept in their drawers that may arise from academic or scientific interests, but which for whatever reason have not been transformed into a conventional product such as an article or chapter. There is also room for essays and experimentalism, with an openness to other fields (literature, poetry, dramatic or theatre texts, etc). Lado B defends the dignity and anthropological fidelity of essayistic and literary writing and invites authors to present literary or poetic texts in the construction of their narratives, considering that writing, like fieldwork, is above all a relational, affective, emotional, sensory and aesthetic process.

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