Editorial
25 de Abril, Sempre!
Humberto Martins
A Etnográfica celebra os 50 anos do 25 de Abril de 1974. Não podia deixar de ser. Abril abriu, em Portugal e no Mundo, muitas portas para as Ciências Sociais. Áreas de saber vistas como perigosas e ameaçadoras do statu quo de regimes opressores
[+]Editorial
A antropologia e o 25 de Abril: introdução
Sónia Vespeira de Almeida, João Leal e Emília Margarida Marques
Este número da Etnográfica, comemorativo dos 50 anos do 25 de Abril, procura associar a comunidade dos antropólogos – professores, investigadores, profissionais da antropologia, antigos estudantes ou atuais estudantes – à evocação das
[+]Etnografias da revolução em revista
Ricos e Pobres no Alentejo: posfácio à edição portuguesa
José Cutileiro
Quando na Primavera de 1970 acabei de escrever A Portuguese Rural Society, estava convencido de que a fase de história económica e social do Alentejo iniciada no segundo quartel do século XIX teria ainda longos anos à sua frente e que as
[+]Etnografias da revolução em revista
Agrarian Reform in Southern Portugal
Sandra McAdam Clark e Brian Juan O’Neill
This paper1 has two main purposes: (a) to present some preliminary results from S. McAdam Clark’s recent research on the agrarian reform and related developments in Southern Portugal, and (b) to set forth a critique of José Cutileiro’s specific
[+]Etnografias da revolução em revista
Emigration and its implications for the revolution in Northern Portugal
Caroline B. Brettell
In October of 1973, the newly organized International Conference Group on Modern Portugal, spearheaded by Douglas Wheeler (historian), Joyce Riegelhaupt (anthropologist) and others, held its first meeting on the campus of the University of New
[+]Imagens do país em 1974-1976: ensaio de antropologia visual
Um outro Portugal de abril: os estudiosos não revolucionários do povo
Clara Saraiva
A “equipa maravilha” da antropologia portuguesa do século XX formou-se em torno da figura de António Jorge Dias, que completou na Universidade de Munique, em 1944, um doutoramento em Etnologia, com a tese Vilarinho da Furna, Um Povo
[+]Antropologia e revolução: do ISCSPU ao ISCSP (1974-1976)
Introdução a Antropologia e revolução: do ISCSPU ao ISCSP
João Leal
No dia 27 de abril de 1974 – dois dias depois do 25 de Abril – caiu o “U” de ISCSPU (Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Política Ultramarina), renomeado no mesmo dia ISCSP (Instituto Superior de Ciências Sociais e Políticas).
[+]Antropologia e revolução: do ISCSPU ao ISCSP (1974-1976)
Recordações do 25 de Abril de 1974 no ISCSP
Filipe Ramires
O clima repressivo que perpassava pela Academia de Lisboa nos anos anteriores ao 25 de Abril de 1974 também se fazia sentir no então ISCSPU. O controlo político-repressivo efectuado pela direcção da escola, nomeadamente através de certos
[+]Antropologia e revolução: do ISCSPU ao ISCSP (1974-1976)
Tempos de extremos
Luís Souta
Entrei na universidade em 1970, depois de ter realizado, em finais de Outubro, o “exame de admissão”, escrito e oral – Língua e Literatura Portuguesa e Geografia Geral, segundo as “matérias estabelecidas no programa oficial do 7.º ano
[+]Antropologia e revolução: do ISCSPU ao ISCSP (1974-1976)
Memórias do ISCSP(U) antes e depois do 25 de Abril de 1974
Dulcinea Gil
Terminado o liceu (ensino secundário) da alínea B, no Liceu Nacional de Faro, fui para Lisboa, a fim de frequentar o curso de Filologia Germânica da Faculdade Letras da Universidade de Lisboa.1 Fiquei desiludida com o curso quando percebi que, ao
[+]Antropologia e revolução: do ISCSPU ao ISCSP (1974-1976)
25 de Abril de 1974: meio século depois – levitando
Maria da Luz Alexandrino
Em Lisboa sentia-se electricidade no ar – estava tudo de nervos em franja. Informações sussurradas nos cafés e nas esquinas sobre movimentos de militares, especialmente de capitães democráticos; sobre a tentativa de golpe de Março nas Caldas
[+]Antropologia e revolução: do ISCSPU ao ISCSP (1974-1976)
A Universidade e o 25 de Abril: o ISCSP e a Antropologia
José Fialho Feliciano
Em 25 de Abril de 1974 estudava em várias universidades de Paris, modeladas, de formas diferentes, pelos ventos de mudança de Maio de 1968. Em Jussieu (Paris VII – Faculté des Sciences) fizera o bacharelato (DEUG) em Ciências da Sociedade,
[+]Antropologia e revolução: do ISCSPU ao ISCSP (1974-1976)
Do ISCSPU… ao ISCSP!
José Cardim
Foi em 1960 que, estando eu em Angola e interno numa escola no Sul do país, sucedeu no Norte a primeira “insurreição moderna” nas colónias portuguesas. Tinha antes vivido e estudado em Lisboa, em Luanda, Lourenço Marques e… no
[+]Antropologia e revolução: do ISCSPU ao ISCSP (1974-1976)
Comentário final – o 25 de Abril e a queda do U: apontamentos sobre memória e revoluções
José Neves
Para aquele lisboeta que descobriu que já não tinha creme de barbear em casa, o dia 25 de abril de 1974 começou mal. Ainda assim, o homem saiu à rua e foi aí e então que se inteirou do que estaria a acontecer na cidade: uma revolução. Os
[+]Etnografias da revolução, hoje
Etnografia retrospectiva 2.0: o gesto artístico na revolução
Sónia Vespeira de Almeida
This article interrogates artistic practices during the revolution in the context of the MFA’s Cultural Dynamisation and Civic Action Campaigns (1974-1975). It begins by revisiting a corpus of ethnographic data collected as part of a research
[+]Etnografias da revolução em revista
Portuguese retornados: memory, citizenship, and (post)imperial identity
Elsa Peralta e Bruno Góis
With the end of the colonial empire, following the Revolution of April 25th, 1974, the borders and identity of the Portuguese nation were redefined. In this context, around half a million citizens from the former colonies were repatriated to
[+]Etnografias da revolução, hoje
Recusar o império da ignorância: compassos das revoluções em Angola e Portugal na obra tardia de Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (1941-2010)
Inês Ponte
Ao lidar com as convulsões políticas do passado de Angola, a obra literária mais tardia do antropólogo Ruy Duarte de Carvalho (1941-2010), angolano de origem portuguesa, proporciona refletir sobre a revolução dos cravos em Portugal. Não é
[+]Etnografias da revolução, hoje
The revolution in the countryside: revisiting a socioenvironmental conflict in post-25th April in a Bera Baixa hamlet
Pedro Gabriel Silva
Following the April 25th 1974 revolution, a village in the municipality of Belmonte (Portugal) became the scene of a six-year conflict between a group of small-holder landowners joined by part of the community and a mining company. This article,
[+]Etnografias da revolução, hoje
April 25th × 50 years of writing in the city
Cristina Pratas Cruzeiro, Ricardo Campos e Cláudia Madeira
In this article, we aim to revisit one of the privileged places for citizens’ expression – the street and urban public space – based on the legacy of graffiti and murals created during the Portuguese revolutionary period of April 25th, 1974.
[+]O que gostarias de ter estudado em 1974?
Portugal 2024, imaginado desde o 25 de Abril
Nuno Domingos
O presente é uma condição inevitável da produção de uma investigação que responda ao desafio da Etnográfica: escrever um ensaio acerca do que gostaria de pesquisar se tivesse tido a oportunidade de acompanhar in loco a revolução de 25 de
[+]O que gostarias de ter estudado em 1974?
Processos revolucionários em discurso: descentralizando e desconstruindo os impactos do 25 de Abril em Angola
Ruy Llera Blanes
É já um lugar-comum afirmar o papel fulcral que o 25 de Abril de 1974 teve no processo de descolonização das colónias portuguesas em África, nomeadamente no que diz respeito à incorporação da descolonização como desígnio do programa do
[+]O que gostarias de ter estudado em 1974?
Projetos contestados de reprodução social durante o processo revolucionário: necessidades humanas e horizontes de valor
Patrícia Alves de Matos
Se pudesse escolher uma temática de investigação sobre o período revolucionário português, qual seria? Foi este o desafio que os editores me colocaram. Inicialmente pensei em velhas ideias que tinha tido quando terminei a minha licenciatura em
[+]O que gostarias de ter estudado em 1974?
Revolução, turismo e antropologia
Marta Prista
Avril au Portugal. Pela mão do Comissariado de Turismo, o Estado Novo promoveu a viagem a Portugal recebendo os estrangeiros no dia do turista com flores, souvenirs e sorrisos de jovens trajadas à imagem do país que se queria.2 Em 1974, uns dias
[+]O que gostarias de ter estudado em 1974?
Nota sobre a capa
Constança Arouca
A caminho da exposição do Mário Cesariny, no MAAT, e já com a capa da celebração dos 50 anos do 25 de Abril em mente, pela primeira vez estive a observar com atenção a intervenção dos 48 artistas, na reinterpretação de 2022 do mural do
[+]Found in Translation
Introduction to "Anthropology in Arabic: beyond the discursive monopoly" (Abdellah Hammoudi, 2018)
Francisco Freire
A Etnográfica inicia com este número uma nova proposta editorial. “Found in Translation” é uma secção concebida para dar espaço a mais antropologias, apontando a essa diversidade epistemológica reclamada na construção de um campo ele
[+]Found in Translation
Anthropology in Arabic: beyond the discursive monopoly
Abdellah Hammoudi
Alguns leitores podem com razão interrogar-se quanto ao efetivo significado da expressão “antropologia em língua árabe”, uma vez que esta, ainda que cuidadosamente escolhida por mim, comporta diferentes significados, alguns deles
[+]Articles
Playing with death to celebrate life: an ethnographic study of the pilgrimage of the coffins in Santa Marta de Ribarteme, Pontevedra, Galicia
Carlos Hernández-Fernández
Since the mid-20th century, a number of religious and festive pilgrimages have been held in Galicia and Portugal in which symbols of a funerary nature were used as a form of offering to give thanks for miracles or to pray for them to take place.
[+]Articles
Governing and classifying over a peasant territory: social effects on a dam project establishment in Huila, Colombia
Camilo Andrés Salcedo Montero
In this paper, I present the results of ethnographic research that analyzes the social effects on peasant communities (dedicated to working the land and fishing in the river) due to the delivery of compensation and the carrying out of works for the
[+]Articles
Images of movement: land, kinship, and history in the Upper Xingu
Antonio Guerreiro
The aim of this article is to understand how the Kalapalo, a Carib-speaking people of the Upper Xingu (southern Amazon), describe their relationship with their traditional lands in narratives and personal accounts of their occupation of the area and
[+]History of Anthropology
Culture, its mode of being: a proposal for reflection following Edward Sapir
Ricardo Santos Alexandre
This essay revisits a classic text of anthropology, Edward Sapir’s “Culture, genuine and spurious”, taking it as a partner for a dialogue and reflection on the notion of culture. In “Culture, genuine and spurious”, Sapir is able to deliver
[+]Interdisciplinarities
A arquitetura e o construído: uma abordagem antropológica para sua distinção conceptual
Ion Fernández de las Heras
Partindo de uma série de considerações relacionadas com o meu trabalho de campo no meio rural do País Basco, sugiro que a coincidência conceptual entre a arquitetura e o construído pode levar a obliterações indesejadas para aqueles que se
[+]Dossiê "Futuros em disputa: abordagens teórico-metodológicas sobre o porvir nas periferias do Sul Global"
Futuros em disputa: abordagens teórico-metodológicas sobre o porvir nas periferias e no Sul global – introdução
Paula Godinho e Raúl H. Contreras Román
A antropologia tem proposto alternativas para pensar os modos pelos quais o passado afeta o presente, sem dar igual importância às múltiplas maneiras pelas quais os futuros socialmente imaginados o fazem. Trabalhos recentes têm-no indagado no
[+]Dossiê "Futuros em disputa: abordagens teórico-metodológicas sobre o porvir nas periferias do Sul Global"
Multispecies futures: a manifesto from the South in the face of the capitalist Anthropocene
Berenice Vargas García e David Varela Trejo
A little over ten years ago, the anthropological academy of the global North baptized with the name “multispecies” a mode of study and writing that de-centers the human and that, in research, pays attention to the socio-cultural and affective
[+]Dossiê "Futuros em disputa: abordagens teórico-metodológicas sobre o porvir nas periferias do Sul Global"
The land is the time: narratives of the future among Andean-Amazonian peasant women
Saraya Bonilla Lozada
This article reflects together with peasant women-defenders of the territory in Bajo Putumayo, in Southern Colombia. It resumes their narratives of the future and the understanding of time and space that they elaborate from their incarnated
[+]Dossiê "Futuros em disputa: abordagens teórico-metodológicas sobre o porvir nas periferias do Sul Global"
End of a village, end of the world: memories and imagined futures from Tixcacal Quintero, Yucatán
Julián Dzul Nah
This article presents the ways in which some people from Tixcacal Quintero (Yucatán, México), inhabitants or immigrants, remember the town’s henequenero past, and imagine its futures. Framed in a post-emigration context, which started in the
[+]Dossiê "Futuros em disputa: abordagens teórico-metodológicas sobre o porvir nas periferias do Sul Global"
The “day after tomorrow”: thinking about ethnic futures among the Ñuu Savi population in the south of Mexico
Norma Bautista Santiago
In the Mixtec language or Tu'un Savi the word future does not exist, however, among the people who assume themselves to be part of the People of the Rain or Ñuu Savi; population of indigenous origin in southern Mexico, there is the notion of what
[+]Dossiê "Futuros em disputa: abordagens teórico-metodológicas sobre o porvir nas periferias do Sul Global"
The humble dreams: a concrete future in an indigenous region of Mexico
Raúl H. Contreras Román
This article explores “humble dreams” as a local model of an imagined future, emerging from diverse and historically situated conversations that build common sense and enable people to imagine other possible lives and engage with them in the
[+]Dossiê "Futuros em disputa: abordagens teórico-metodológicas sobre o porvir nas periferias do Sul Global"
The world exists now
João Carlos Louçã
After the end of the Cold War and the Soviet bloc, the 1990’s promised the expansion of capitalism to the most remote corners of the planet. Globalization was the way economic liberalism assumed this purpose by ensuring that economies and
[+]Resources
Mobilities, ethnography and tourism: a literature overview on ethnographic methodologies
Juliana Carneiro and Thiago Allis
This work aims at identifying and analyzing the entanglements between mobilities, ethnography and tourism, based on an integrative literature review. It seeks, in particular, the use of ethnographic methodologies applied in the field of mobilities
[+]The Cut
Lights out: practicing opacity in Estonian basements
Francisco Martínez
This essay engages with alternative regimes of invisibility by investigating the things that are kept, and the practices that take place in basements of eastern Estonia. The use of hiding infrastructures is here taken as part of wider claims about
[+]The Cut
Etnographing the underground: notes and inspirations from the text by Francisco Martínez
Mariana Tello Weiss
The text is highly inspiring from both a theoretical and methodological point of view. It proposes an ethnography of the basements in Sillamäe, a small village in eastern Estonia. A village that, because of its history - marked by war and the
[+]The Cut
What Else Can We Do with/in Holes?
Tamta Khalvashi
“Where is a bunker?” This question started to haunt many of us in Georgian cities when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022. Quest for bunkers, basements and shelters, for spaces of both opacity and safety, was drawn from the possible
[+]The Cut
From basement to de-basement? A probing response to opacity
Hermione Spriggs
“The opaque is not the obscure” (Glissant 1997: 191). So begins Fran Martínez’ text on basements, which he approaches as spaces of opacity that can nonetheless be entered
[+]The Cut
Where the Story Begins Anew
Patrick Laviolette
Francisco Martínez starts his essay with a quotation by Édouard Glissant. He might just as easily have chosen something from Gaston Bachelard’s Poetics of Space (1958) or Dick Hebdige’s Hiding in the Light (1988) to introduce what lays on the
[+]Sections
PROPOSALS SUBMISSION
All proposals should be sent to: etnografica@cria.org.pt
subject: proposal submission FORUM AGORA [name of the section]
AGORA EXCLUSIVE SECTIONS
Quick Notes
Section with a blog-like profile. It can include independent and original posts, but also short reflections by authors of texts published in the journal, providing a more "popular" version of the article.
Up to 1000 words. Permanent publication. Proofreading by editors.
Editor: Octávio Sacramento (UTAD, CETRAD, Portugal)
Short Cuts
Featured articles for online reading ; only articles from the current issue; summarised texts with photographs or other content that paper does not allow.
Up to 500 words. Permanent publication. Proofreading by editors. May include photography, video, and audio.
Editor: Humberto Martins (UTAD, UMinho, CRIA-UMinho/IN2PAST, Portugal)
"From the archives"
Here we dig deep into the archives to take a fresh look at the anthropology published in Etnográfica since 1997. Every four months, a guest editor proposes a selection of re-readings based on a thematic (or geographical, or temporal, or...) axis that they define according to their research interests and the questions that today's world poses to them.
A text introducing the selection, written by the guest. Up to 1000 words. Selection of up to 8 articles. Every four months.
Editor: Emília Margarida Marques (CRIA-Iscte/IN2PAST, Portugal)
Multimodal – Audiovisual section
This section publishes original multimodal contributions engaging with ethnographic practice and enriching the writing. We encourage submissions of essays that incorporate visual formats, such as photography, drawing, graphics and audiovisuals, or sound, as part of their ethnographic reflection.
Up to 6000 words. Images are worth 200 words each. Video and audio up to 20 min.
Essay - review by the editor and invited peers, optionally anonymised.
Technical specifications to be agreed with editor.
Editor: Inês Ponte (ICS-ULisboa, Portugal)
Urgent Anthropology
Articles in the form of short essays on hot topics within the scope of the anthropology of urgency and the anthropology of affections; but also articles/essays that shape public agendas or explore invisibilised realities and phenomena.
Review by editors. Permanent publication. Publication time up to 3 months. By submission or by invitation from the editor.
Between 2000 and 2500 words. May include photography, video and audio.
Editor: Renata Gonçalves (U. Fluminense, Brazil)
Field notes
Original texts that provide a look and reflection on research experiences with the presentation of fieldwork vignettes. Authors are invited to incorporate multimodal representations (text, sound and image in the most varied formats) that facilitate access to facts, materialities, involvements, interactions, relationships and interactions made possible during fieldwork. A section that opens the door to the ways in which anthropologists produce knowledge when they carry out their research, valuing raw data, materials to be analysed, impressions and inaccuracies, circumstantiality and the gerundial nature of doing anthropology and which invites creative solutions that make us enter or approach the experiences lived by anthropologists in the field.
Review by editors. Audiovisual materials: each image is worth 200 words. Video and audio up to 6 min.
Maximum 2500 words.
Editors: Antonádia Borges (UFRJ, Brazil); Cyril Isnart (IDEMEC, France; CRIA-Iscte/IN2PAST, Portugal); Humberto Martins (UTAD, UMinho, CRIA-UMinho/IN2PAST, Portugal);
Jose Antonio Cortés Vázquez (U. Coruña, Spain)
B Side
B Side 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 complete openness to other fields (literature, poetry, dramatic or theatrical texts, etc). B Side 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.
Curated by the editor.
Maximum 6000 words.
Editor: Chiara Pussetti (ICS-ULisboa, Portugal)
NEW SECTIONS – ETNOGRÁFICA AND AGORA
Found in Translation
This section aims to give space to peripheral texts or those that are outside academic circulation for linguistic or epistemological reasons. Many of the texts not translated into dominant languages or already accommodated in the global circuit of social science journals lead to the unbalanced dissemination and reproduction of established paradigms of thought. Etnográfica therefore proposes to bring to the discussion forum a production that is sometimes unknown and challenges these same paradigms, in terms of content, style and format. This may include translations of works from languages and circuits peripheral to those of the dominant production in academia, as well as from other disciplinary and/or ontological fields.
Variable length. Annual publication. Presentation text.
Maximum 1000 words.
Guest Editor 2024: Francisco Freire (NOVA-FCSH, CRIA-NOVA FCSH/IN2PAST)
The cut: cutting-edge themes in dialogue
In this section the editors propose a challenging essay that will question and push forward theoretical-anthropological thinking. This piece may also include cutting-edge ethnographic methodologies, and will propose something new and controversial, within the parameters of professional academic common sense. Three different contributors will respond to these provocations with their own thoughts, based on their anthropological experience, with critical perspectives. The author of the main piece gives a final response.
Maximum 7000 words.
Main article in provocation: 3000 words.
Contestant 1: 1000 words; Contestant 2: 1000 words.
Contestant 3: 1000 words; Main author's response: 1000 words.
Published once a year. Invitation and review by editors.
Editors: Diana Espírito Santo (U. Católica, Chile) and Ruy Blanes (CRIA-Iscte/IN2PAST, Portugal)
Four reviewers are invited to write a critical review of a recent book with significant theoretical and/or methodological implications for anthropology. Each reviewer creates a brief synopsis of the book, from their perspective, and a critical commentary on aspects of the book, as well as outstanding questions and other issues that leave room for the author to respond at a later date. At the end of these four essays, the author of the book will address each of them and, finally, acknowledge the criticisms and defend his book (or not).
Maximum 6000 words.
Commentator/critic 1: 1000 words; Commentator/critic 2: 1000 words
Commentator/critic 3: 1000 words; Commentator/critic 4: 1000 words
Author's response: 2000 words
Published once a year. Invitation and review by editors.
Editors: Diana Espírito Santo (U. Católica, Chile) and Ruy Blanes (CRIA-Iscte/IN2PAST, Portugal)
EXISTING SECTIONS – ETNOGRÁFICA AND AGORA
Interviews
The publication of interviews in Etnográfica will be stimulated by a proposal from the Board of Directors and may also result from proposals made directly by the contributors. In the first case, the interviews are part of the journal’s editorial project and are planned by the Editorial Board. As far as proposals from contributors are concerned, they must fulfil the following criteria:
They must not exceed 7500 words, including any bibliographical references, or exceed 40 minutes in length in the case of recorded interviews (sound or video).
They should be geared towards emphasising one of the following items:
-- The interviewee's scientific/academic career.
-- Analysis and/or critical commentary on recent work (no more than three years after publication).
-- The interviewee's inclusion in a theoretical current and the corresponding discussion/confrontation with other authors and/or currents.
-- Presentation and corresponding discussion of concepts and/or categories proposed by the author or that refer to their work.
Interview proposals are open on a permanent basis, and the journal undertakes to give its consent or express its disinterest within a maximum of 60 days. The timing of publication is the responsibility of the Editorial Board, which will evaluate the suitability of the publication within the journal's editorial framework.
Editor: Luís Cunha (UMinho, CRIA-UMinho/IN2PAST, Portugal)
Review proposals, for written works as well as cinematographic and documentary works, must be written in one of the languages accepted by the journal - Portuguese, English, Spanish and French - and may not exceed 1500 words. Except in exceptional situations, which are always defined in liaison with the Board, only reviews that refer to works published or edited in the last five years will be accepted. Without prejudice to any proposals that the Editorial Board may consider appropriate, Etnográfica will privilege the following criteria when publishing reviews:
-- Works that refer to or privilege the internationalisation of Portuguese works and/or those from the Lusophone space.
-- The reception and dissemination in Portugal of referential works, seen as relevant contributions to contemporary anthropological debates.
-- Works from lesser-known geographical contexts, other than Europe or North America.
The Editorial Board is responsible for accepting or rejecting proposals, a decision that will be communicated to the proposers within a maximum of 60 days, and the Board is responsible for scheduling the respective publication.
Editor: Luís Cunha (UMinho, CRIA-UMinho/IN2PAST, Portugal)
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