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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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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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
[+]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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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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“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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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
[+]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
[+]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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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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“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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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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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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“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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“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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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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Humberto Martins (UTAD, UMinho, CRIA-UMinho/IN2PAST, Portugal)
The Book and its Critics (editors/curators) - Diana Espírito Santo, Ruy Blanes
B-Side (editor/curator) - Chiara Pussetti
The Cut: cutting-edge themes in dialog (editors/curators) - Diana Espírito Santo, Ruy Blanes
Field Notes (editors/curators) - Antonádia Borges, Cyril Isnart, Ernesto Martínez Fernández, Humberto Martins
Found in Translation (guest editor 2023) - Francisco Freire
From the Archives (editor/curator) - Emília Margarida Marques
Interview (editor/curator) - Luís Cunha
LAB – Living Anthropology and Art Boundaries (editor) - Chiara Pussetti, (guest curator 2025) - Marco Maria Zanin
Multimodal section (editor/curator) - Inês Ponte
Quick Notes (editor/curator) - Octávio Sacramento
Reviews (editor) - Luís Cunha
Shortcuts (editor) - Humberto Martins
Urgent Anthropology (editor/curator) - Renata Gonçalves
Mónica Álvares Rodrigues (CRIA/IN2PAST, Portugal)
Mafalda Melo Sousa (CRIA/IN2PAST, Portugal)
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