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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The history through sacrifice and predation: tikmũ,ũn existential territory at the colonial crossroads
Douglas Ferreira Gadelha Campelo
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
[+]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