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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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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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
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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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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
[+]Meta-Governance and the Informal Reality of Nepal's Bureaucracy
Binod Pokharel
02.07.2025
An interview with Jorge Freitas Branco
Jorge Freitas Branco
Constança Vieira de Andrade
30.06.2025
A conversation with Livia Melzi
Marco Maria Zanin
30.06.2025
The universalist discipline of representation
Laura Burocco
18.06.2025
‘No to Fortress Europe!": immigration, moral panics and borders
José Mapril
09.04.2025
An interview with Jaume Franquesa
Jaume Franquesa, Ruy Llera Blanes
03.04.2025
INCLUSION-EXCLUSION: Texts from the Ethnographic Writing Workshop
Gianmarco Marzola
João Afonso Baptista
30.03.2025
Having land and being from the land: two complementary meanings
Verena Sevá Nogueira
30.03.2025
Ecologies of sustainability and networks of solidarity: knowledge and practices in the Valley of Thorns (Ecuador) and Ribeira Valley, São Paulo (Brazil)
Barbarita Lara, Marina Gomes, Maria Eliza Manteca, Diná Silva, Salomón Acosta, Nelson Espinoza, Jaqueline L. Silva, Aparecido Medeiros, Andrea Chávez, Génesis Delgado, Danielle Samia, Cleberson Moura, Daniela Balanzátegui, Francisco S. Noelli, Marianne Sallum
29.03.2025
Sensitive maps in the abandoned territories of railway stations on the Brazil-Uruguay border
Vanessa Forneck and Eduardo Rocha
05.03.2025
Interview with Elena Mazzi
Marco Maria Zanin
25.02.2025
Fragments of the imagined clay
Sónia Mota Ribeiro
12.12.2024
The tone of botany: a note on the sensitivity of knowledge
Pedro Crepaldi Carlessi
26.11.2024
Audiovisual genealogies, poetics and Afro-indigenous memories: through the lens of artists-researchers from Ecuador and Brazil
Barbarita Lara, Yuliana Ortiz, Amanda Takuapu/Comunidade Tabaçu Reko Ypy, Katherine Chalá, Génesis Delgado, Darwin Minda, Andrea Chávez, Iván Zambrano, Fabiana Leite, Cleberson Moura, Marianne Sallum, Daniela Balanzátegui
16.11.2024
Make sure you don't get wet... if you catch the virus, who will take care of me?
Ricardo Vieira
15.11.2024
Interview with Rosa Maria Perez
Rosa Maria Perez, Inês Lourenço
15.10.2024
The provincialization of orthodox economic projects: porosities, relations and moralities
Patrícia Alves de Matos
24.09.2024
Land and wasteland
Diego Amoedo
22.08.2024
Building Afro-indigenous affective networks: women, education, and activism in Latin America
Katherine Chalá, Daniela Balanzátegui, Valentina Romero, Catarina Nimbopyruá Delfina dos Santos, María Celeste Sánchez Sugía, Watatakalu Yawalapiti, Maria John, Marianne Sallum
17.07.2024
The yellow brick road I walk as an ethnographer
Noelia García Rodríguez
11.07.2024
25 April, always!
03.07.2024
Interview with José Sobral
José Sobral, Patrícia Alves de Matos
02.07.2024
Observing land transformation in Portugal
Fabienne Wateau
25.06.2024
In the City of Shadows: moving in the face of violence in Veracruz
Juan Antonio Flores Martos
20.06.2024
Indigenous archaeologies, territories, and human rights: dialogues among representatives of the Tupi Guarani, Tuxá, and Eastern Pequot
Yacunã Tuxá, Natasha Gambrell, Luã Apyká, Blaire Morseau, Stephen W. Silliman, Daniela Balanzátegui, Marianne Sallum
21.05.2024
It's because I miss you that I'm skinny: male (re)encounters in the Bolivian Chaco
Pere Morell i Torra
18.04.2024
The War Against Gaza: Genocide, Geopolitics and Anthropology
Paulo Gabriel Hilu da Rocha Pinto
27.03.2024
Missing girls: the sexual exploitation of children in the form of self-managed internal trafficking
M. Belén Ortega-Senet
13.03.2024
Anthropology in Arabic: beyond the discursive monopoly
Abdellah Hammoudi
Tradução de Ilham Houass e Diane Abd-El-Karim
Revisto por Francisco Freire e Abdallah Hammoudi
12.03.2024
The corner of the "calabaceira": encounters, affections and ethnography in the "Vale"
Simone Frangella
Max Ruben Ramos
05.03.2024
Wandering through the past with an eviscerated present: looking at Gaza through the archives
Raquel Gil Carvalheira
04.03.2024
Interview with Caroline Brettell
Caroline Brettell
Marta Rosales
Sónia Ferreira
27.02.2024
(Re)encontrar Sousa Martins
Vincenzo Scamardella
06.02.2024
A decade and many events later: what can we (re)read about possible minority liberalisms?
Paulo Victor Leite Lopes
06.02.2024
“Over there”: on the relative legibility of the cityscape
Thaddeus Gregory Blanchette
23.01.2024
The value of confession and the exercise of justice
Catarina Frois
06.12.2023
Seeing like a routier: routiers’ borderscapes between Southern Europe and West Africa
Pedro Figueiredo Neto and Ricardo Falcão
22.11.2023
Relational ethics and care for the world
Jarrett Zigon
16.11.2023
We are all curmanos
Ramón Sarró
10.10.2023
Nombres de lugar: el espíritu
Ramón Sarró
10.10.2023
Interview with João Leal
João Leal
Luís Cunha
Humberto Martins
03.10.2023
Etnographing the underground: notes and inspirations from the text by Francisco Martínez
Mariana Tello Weiss
28.09.2023
What Else Can We Do with/in Holes?
Tamta Khalvashi
28.09.2023
From basement to de-basement? A probing response to opacity
Hermione Spriggs
21.09.2023
Identity(ies) and negotiation: the dance of dressing and undressing, undressing and dressing (or not).
Raquel Mendes Pereira
19.09.2023
Where the Story Begins Anew
Patrick Laviolette
29.08.2023
Gender, sexuality and ourselves
Miguel Vale de Almeida
25.08.2023
Freedom to desire
Victor Hugo de Souza Barreto
28.06.2023
Lights Out. Practicing Opacity in Estonian Basements
Francisco Martínez
21.06.2023
Confusing maps: notes on new energy territorialities in Portugal and Europe
Ruy Llera Blanes
Luís Silva
Francisco Freire
Antonio Maria Pusceddu
Antónia Lima
Paulo Mendes
21.06.2023