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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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Artigos

“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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Artigos

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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Artigos

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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Artigos

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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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); Ernesto Martínez Fernández (Universidade de Sevilha, Espanha); Humberto Martins (UTAD, UMinho, CRIA-UMinho/IN2PAST, Portugal);



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)


LAB – Living Anthropology and Art Boundaries

This section, curated annually by a guest artist, is a kind of permanent gallery and creative workshop in which curators and invited artists and authors explore the experimental and creative dimension of ethnography from the field of the arts and innovative proposals that transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries (of the arts and anthropology) in a fruitful and reflective dialogue about its potential in terms of knowledge and experience of things.
Editor: Chiara Pussetti (ICS-ULisboa, Portugal)
Guest curator 2025: Marco Maria Zanin


April 25: 50 Years - Reflections and Reflections

Section created as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of April 25 in Portugal, inviting perspectives from anthropology to think about the memory and socio-political trajectory of the revolution.



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)

The Book and its Critics

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)


Reviews

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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