GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal
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description: GIS – Gesture, Image and Sound – Anthropology Journal is an academic journal that encompasses fields of visual anthropology, music and sound, performance, theater and art. With the purpose of creating a space for international dialogue involving materials and reflections produced by these fields, we accept publications in Portuguese, Spanish, English and French; in the case of articles published in Portuguese and Spanish, authors should also provide English translations. The bilingual requirement regarding articles in Spanish and Portuguese is aimed at making known, on a wider scale, production from Latin America and other Portuguese and Spanish-speaking areas.
publisher: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
language: en
publication name: GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal
issn: 2525-3123
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items: Artificial intelligence from a critical perspective: anthropological contributions and technological imaginaries
items: Pão doce
items: A spark that spreads
items: O círculo em uma vida: Aracy Lopes da Silva
items: The dogs and the magic of the doubles: a review of the posthumous work of Mauricio Lissovsky
items: Between art and politics: sex work in Hirosuke Kitamura’s art project Sweet Obsession
items: Iemanjá in Montevideo: devotion, gay marriage, migration to Europe and religious transnationalization in Uruguay
items: Hello, how can I help you today? Controversies surrounding the use of artificial intelligence for therapy and psychological support
items: Warburg anthropologue ou le déchiffrement d’une utopie
items: Surrounding sound: interviews, recordings, auditions and methodology
items: Big data versus thick data: is this the question? towards an ecology of digital practices
items: Artificial Intelligence Applied to Education: Theoretical Foundations, History, and Perspectives
items: Recognition under suspicion: alliances between anthropology and computer science to confront the understanding of ethics in the development of facial recognition
items: Aesthetics of repetition: artificial intelligence, surrealism and algorithms
items: Fotografia de Mohammed Salem
items: Editorial: admirável mundo novo
items: Toques, fios e retalhos: por uma etnografia multitelas
items: Digital inequality: algorithmic racism in the context of teenage mothers on Instagram
items: Photographs and bonding: revisiting my own archive
items: Post-indicial photojournalism, challenges and trends
items: Equivocation and the construction of ethnographic knowledge in Why Kĩsêdjê Sing
items: Divergent survivances
items: Roda de conversa com Richard Schechner
items: The art of kindling drums: the senses of fire in the musical performances of afro-uruguayan candombe
items: Moves and artists from the northernzone of Rio de Janeiro
items: Rapatriement digital: l’exemple du fond de la mission de recherche folklorique sur les pankararu
items: Light, aroma and heat
items: For a Poetics of Sound Archives: the Itinerary of Capiba's 'Eh Uá Calunga' Maracatu
items: SOME THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO STUDYING TRAJECTORIES OF FREE FIRE GAME INFLUENCERS
items: SMARTPHONES AND THE COLLABORATIVE MULTIPLE OF 'IMPERFECT CINEMAS': EXPERIENCES OF PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION OF INDIGENOUS MEDIA DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Artificial intelligence from a critical perspective: anthropological contributions and technological imaginaries
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description: With the growing popularity of artificial intelligence (AI), especially the so-called generative AI, the aim of this Special Issue is to bring into discussion the possible meanings of adopting artificial intelligence in everyday life, proposing, above all, more complex perspectives on processes that are far from being simply good or bad, pleasurable or dangerous. In this sense, drawing on articles characterized by multidisciplinarity and a diversity of approaches, it reflects on the meanings of AI across different spheres of life - education, facial recognition technologies, therapy, and journalism - as well as raising important questions about the ethical limits of its development and use.
subject: Dossiê inteligência artificial em perspectiva crítica: contribuições antropológicas e imaginários tecnológicos
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subject: Artificial intelligence
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subject: Ethnography
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subject: Technology
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subject: Digital anthropology
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subject: Technopolitics
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creator: Carolina Parreiras
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Carolina Parreiras https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-22
publication date: 2025-11-22
starting page: e247301
ending page: e247301
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.247301

Pão doce
type: item
subject: Found on the Net
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creator: Carlos Sandroni
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Carlos Sandroni https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-22
publication date: 2025-11-22
starting page: e247122
ending page: e247122
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.247122

A spark that spreads
type: item
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
creator: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
creator: Andrea Barbosa
creator: Edgar Teodoro da Cunha
creator: Érica Giesbrecht
creator: Francirosy Campos Barbosa
creator: John Cowart Dawsey
creator: Paula Morgado Dias Lopes
creator: Rose Satiko G. Hikiji
creator: Vi Grunvald
creator: Yuri Prado
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-10
publication date: 2025-11-10
ending page: 247118
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.247118

O círculo em uma vida: Aracy Lopes da Silva
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description: Viver em círculo foi, e é, o ensinamento de sua vida.
subject: In Memoriam
  topic: section
creator: Ana Maria de Niemeyer
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-20
publication date: 2025-11-20
starting page: e243462
ending page: e243462
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.243462

The dogs and the magic of the doubles: a review of the posthumous work of Mauricio Lissovsky
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description: The posthumous work of Brazilian researcher Mauricio Lissovsky, "A Fotografia e Seus Duplos" (Photography and Its Doubles), is a foundational work for image theory. The result of a decade of research, the book applies a method inspired by Walter Benjamin to analyze photography as a "machine of similarities" that operates through "doubles"—images that echo, contradict, or dialogue throughout history. Lissovsky's analysis intertwines two main threads: the magical character of photography and the figure of the dog as a philosophical double. The medium's magic is traced to its invention, described alternately as a divine "miracle" or a sorcerer's "spell." Lissovsky argues that photography functions as "sympathetic magic," whose power of "contagion" is activated by ritualistic doubles, such as in the photos of Ibeji twins. The dog, however, emerges as the work's central "magical operator," a liminal being that exposes the fissures of the "anthropological machine" that separates human from animal. Its presence in images is analyzed in various contexts. In courtly painting, the proximity between dogs and dwarfs reveals their ambiguous status; in a Robert Capa photograph, a soldier inverts power dynamics by assuming the posture of a "hunting dog." The dog's connection to power also extends to its relationship with death and the beyond; it acts as a guardian of the dead, a modern Anubis in mourning portraits, and its accidental appearance in photography's history is treated as an eschatological event. Furthermore, the dog is a double for desire and transgression, as seen in its association with female lasciviousness and in the enigma of identity it becomes in portraits of Kafka. For Lissovsky, photography is haunted by ghosts and omens, and the dog is the privileged guide through this universe, revealing that a powerful mythical dimension persists behind the photographic technique. Lissovsky's work is presented as a legacy that has "barely begun to be read," destined to "hau…
subject: T.I.R. - Translations, Interviews and Reviews
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subject: Photograph
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subject: Antropology
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subject: Magic
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creator: Alexandre Hermes Oliveira Assunção
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-20
publication date: 2025-11-20
starting page: e239332
ending page: e239332
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.239332

Between art and politics: sex work in Hirosuke Kitamura’s art project Sweet Obsession
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description: Starting from an Artistic Residency implemented by APROSMIG (Association of Sex Workers of Minas Gerais), ten resident artists were selected and invited to develop artistic projects in the Guaicurus prostitution complex in Belo Horizonte, the state capital. These projects were expected to consider the historical significance of the region for the city and its contemporary society, while also promoting visibility and recognition of sex work and sex workers, as artists and subjects of their own history. Among the many works produced, this article focuses on the work of the artist Hirosuke Kitamura, entitled Sweet Obsession (2016), which includes three audiovisual works and a photographic series. Through the processes involved in APROSMIG’s mobilization, Kitamura’s production and an interview with the artist himself, we aim to explore the intersections between art and politics, approached through the lens of sex work.
subject: Articles
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subject: Art
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subject: Sex Work
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subject: Guaicurus Complex
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subject: APROSMIG
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creator: Mirian Borges da Silva
creator: Carla Delgado de Souza
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Mirian Borges da Silva, Carla Delgado de Souza https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-20
publication date: 2025-11-20
starting page: e233999
ending page: e233999
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.233999

Iemanjá in Montevideo: devotion, gay marriage, migration to Europe and religious transnationalization in Uruguay
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description: The same-sex relationship between Uruguayans Juan and Pedro illuminates a discussion on important themes for Latin American Anthropology such as: the transnationalization of Afro-Brazilian religions in the Southern Cone; debates about the relevance of migratory and mobility flows in the formation of transnational religious fields; and, finally, the relationships between LGBT+ subjects and African-based religions in Latin America. As a result of fieldwork carried out in 2024 at the Festa de Iemanjá in Montevideo (UY), this work aims to blur the boundaries between textual and photographic narrative, giving visuality to ethnographic aspects perceived in the field and which are fundamental to debates about the African-based religions in a transnational scenario.
subject: Articles
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subject: Religious transnationalization
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subject: Afro-Brazilian religions
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subject: Homosexuality
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subject: Migration
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subject: Uruguay
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creator: Rafael da Silva Noleto
creator: Marcus Vinícius Nascimento Negrão
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-22
publication date: 2025-11-22
starting page: e233244
ending page: e233244
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.233244

Hello, how can I help you today? Controversies surrounding the use of artificial intelligence for therapy and psychological support
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description: In this article, we propose a reflection on the relationship between humans and machines, based on the controversies surrounding the use of generative AI systems, particularly ChatGPT, for therapy and psychological support. We used the Reddit forum platform as a privileged research site, reflecting on the ways AI is instrumentalized and the lived and imagined possibilities of human-machine relationships. The empirical work was articulated with specialized literature from anthropology, psychology, and social studies of science and technology related to the topic of interactions between humans and AI systems for psychological support and therapy. In this context, we argue that science fiction exert a significant influence on how AI models are trained, imagined, and experienced by users, directing us toward the relevance of the issue of responsibility and the ethical dilemmas associated with the uses of AI.
subject: Dossiê inteligência artificial em perspectiva crítica: contribuições antropológicas e imaginários tecnológicos
  topic: section
subject: Anthropology
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subject: Human-machine
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subject: Artificial intelligence
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subject: Responsibility
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subject: CTS
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creator: Nayara Ariel Pacheco Ganem
creator: Magda dos Santos Ribeiro
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-22
publication date: 2025-11-22
starting page: e231267
ending page: e231267
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.231267

Warburg anthropologue ou le déchiffrement d’une utopie
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description: Nós tentamos mostrar que as pesquisas há muito reunidas sob o nome de biologia da arte constituíram as raízes esquecidas do pensamento antropológico de Aby Warburg. Conhecidas por ele em 1895-1896, essas perspectivas nutririam sua reflexão até o final de sua vida em 1927. A partir da análise etnográfica da representação de nomes próprios no Sepik, nós tentaremos em seguida mostrar que, para tentar decifrar a utopia que testemunha seu pensamento – formular uma antropologia da memória social tal como ela se funda sobre as tradições iconográficas –, é necessário retomar, de um ponto de vista crítico, o método morfológico da biologia da arte, e sua maneira de reconstruir as operações mentais implicadas no deciframento das imagens.
subject: T.I.R. - Translations, Interviews and Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Cryptoglyphs
  topic: keywords
subject: Memory
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subject: Biology of images
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subject: Sepik
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subject: Mnemonics
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creator: Carlo Severi
creator: Rodrigo Frare Baroni
creator: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-22
publication date: 2025-11-22
starting page: e231106
ending page: e231106
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.231106

Surrounding sound: interviews, recordings, auditions and methodology
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description: The interview is one of the most used techniques in Human Sciences, in Anthropology, in particular. More rarely the audio recordings are taken as a starting point. Audio tends to be considered only as a medium, archive, raw material. This article draws on the sounds, noises and silences of 43 interviews carried out with scientists in the Recife/PE. First, a body of recent sound studies will be discussed. Then, the elements and sound environments will be described and analyzed in the order in which they appeared in the interviews, from when the recorder was turned on (rec) until it was turned off (stop). Finally, ethical-methodological comments follow on how these sounds allowed, even at geographical distance, understanding and dialogue with the activities of the field, the team and the research topic. The proposal is to value, in anthropological work, active, imaginative, deep, vigilant, trained, directed, non-habitual and corporal listening.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Interview
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subject: Audio recordings
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subject: Listening
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subject: Recife/PE
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subject: Science
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creator: Soraya Fleischer
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e231008
ending page: e231008
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.231008

Big data versus thick data: is this the question? towards an ecology of digital practices
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description: We revisit an already consolidated discussion on the conjunction between anthropological methodologies and the techno-digital world of big data, as well as other artificial intelligences that are increasingly populating our realities. A partial review sheds light on the incorrigible circularity of the recursiveness in this debate, whether focusing on the relationships between devices and users, or focusing on interpretivist epistemologies that avoid reintroduce it in a shared milieu where humans no longer dominate, or ignore a simultaneously psychic and collective individuation driven by technics. We question the dualistic exhaustion of this debate, with the help of science, technology and society studies, pointing out relational modalities through qualculation and the artifactual dimension of algorithms, up to their aesthetic emergences. Leaving the debate open, we point to a more-than-digital anthropology as a way of ecologizing digital practices with open-ended methodologies, capable of maintaining a politicization common to both data science and anthropology.
subject: Dossiê inteligência artificial em perspectiva crítica: contribuições antropológicas e imaginários tecnológicos
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subject: Big data
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subject: Digital anthropology
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subject: Science, technology, and society
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subject: Ecology of digital practices
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creator: Laure Garrabé
creator: Maria Fernanda Viana
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e230965
ending page: e230965
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.230965

Artificial Intelligence Applied to Education: Theoretical Foundations, History, and Perspectives
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description: This study aims to analyze the application of artificial intelligence in education (AIED) through a critical review of the existing literature. It does not intend to exhaust the topic but rather to present a partial overview of current debates and issues based on selected references. Drawing on Floridi’s typology, the study distinguishes between reproductive AI — focused on the efficient execution of tasks — and productive AI — which aspires to replicate human cognitive processes, a goal not yet achieved. It is important to note that this investigation does not include empirical research. Structured around the past, present, and future perspectives of AI, the analysis emphasizes the importance of ethical principles in adopting these technologies within school contexts. In line with the critiques of Douglas dos Santos and António Nóvoa regarding the disintegration of the school form, the study advocates a pedagogical metamorphosis that preserves values of socialization and conviviality. Inspired by John Dewey’s educational philosophy, the approach proposes incorporating digital innovations in ways that reinforce — rather than replace — human interactions. The conclusion asserts that, no matter how advanced, AI cannot supplant the relational essence of education, and calls for a balance between technological innovation and the fundamental values of schooling.
subject: Dossiê inteligência artificial em perspectiva crítica: contribuições antropológicas e imaginários tecnológicos
  topic: section
subject: Artificial Intelligence
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subject: Education
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subject: Digital Revolution
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subject: School Metamorphosis
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subject: Ethics
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creator: Anderson Machado Rodrigues Alves
creator: Ana Carolina Carius
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-22
publication date: 2025-11-22
starting page: e230912
ending page: e230912
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.230912

Recognition under suspicion: alliances between anthropology and computer science to confront the understanding of ethics in the development of facial recognition
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description: This article seeks to build bridges between anthropology and computer science, refining the understanding of transdisciplinarity that informs the critical proposition on the development of artificial intelligence, particularly with regard to facial recognition techniques. Framed from within, this technology is analyzed through the lens of its production of knowledge on machine learning, supported by anthropological approaches to actor-network theory, discussions on object, agency, and relationships between humans and non-humans. The purpose is to enable this alliance between areas to challenge the very understanding of what ethics is, how the incorporation of ethics is consciously constrained, and what configures ethical and responsible practice in the scope of the development and application of algorithms, ultimately undermining current perspectives that reduce ethics to the direct, visible effects of communication technologies.
subject: Dossiê inteligência artificial em perspectiva crítica: contribuições antropológicas e imaginários tecnológicos
  topic: section
subject: Artificial Intelligence
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subject: Facial recognition
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subject: Ethics
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subject: Social Studies of Science and Technology
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subject: Actor-network theory
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subject: Transdisciplinary Studies
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creator: Marisol Marini
creator: Nina da Hora
creator: Sandra Avila
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-20
publication date: 2025-11-20
starting page: e230902
ending page: e230902
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.230902

Aesthetics of repetition: artificial intelligence, surrealism and algorithms
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description: This article investigates how surrealist aesthetics are appropriated, modifi ed, and disseminated on Instagram, analyzing the effects of artifi cial intelligence (AI) and algorithms on the production and circulation of images. It begins by addressing the problem of algorithmic aestheticization as a device that reconfi gures notions of curation and aesthetic value. I argue that AI, far from representing an innovation, operates as a technology of repetition, reiterating visual conventions and narrowing the sensory experience. The investigation focuses on the hashtag #surrealism as a portal for discovering a type of softened, plasticized, algorithmically domesticated aesthetic production. The research contributes to debates on technological imaginaries by proposing a critical reading of AI-mediated visual production, with attention to the dynamics of aesthetic repetition, symbolic disputes over visibility and the contemporary reconfi guration of art worlds.
subject: Dossiê inteligência artificial em perspectiva crítica: contribuições antropológicas e imaginários tecnológicos
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subject: Aestheticization
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subject: Surrealism
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subject: Art
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subject: Instagram
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subject: Artificial intelligence
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creator: Adriana Nunes Souza
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e230879
ending page: e230879
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.230879

Fotografia de Mohammed Salem
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description: A mulher palestina Inas Abu Maamar, 36 anos, cuja foto abraçando o corpo de sua sobrinha Saly, de 5 anos, morta em um ataque aéreo israelense, viralizou na mídia local e internacional, exibe a foto de Saly em um telefone celular, em Khan Younis, na faixa sul de Gaza.
subject: Found on the Net
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creator: Mohammed Salem
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Mohammed Salem https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e230773
ending page: e230773
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.230773

Editorial: admirável mundo novo
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description: Editorial do Volume 9 da GIS - Gesto, Imagem e Som - Revista de Antropologia.
subject: Editorial
  topic: section
subject: Editorial
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subject: Revista de Antropologia
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subject: Gesto
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subject: Imagem
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subject: Som
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creator: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
creator: Andrea Barbosa
creator: Edgar Teodoro da Cunha
creator: Érica Giesbrecht
creator: Francirosy Campos Barbosa
creator: John Cowart Dawsey
creator: Paula Morgado Dias Lopes
creator: Rose Satiko G. Hijiki
creator: Vi Grunvald
creator: Yuri Prado
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, Andrea Barbosa, Edgar Teodoro da Cunha, Érica Giesbrecht, Francirosy Campos Barbosa, John Cowart Dawsey, Paula Morgado Dias Lopes, Rose Satiko G. Hijiki, Vi Grunvald, Yuri Prado https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-08-26
publication date: 2025-08-26
starting page: e230774
ending page: e230774
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.230774

Toques, fios e retalhos: por uma etnografia multitelas
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description: A relação entre a antropologia e as novas tecnologias de produção audiovisual tem frequentemente estimulado modos recíprocos de criação, resultando em práticas inovadoras de construção do conhecimento antropológico, mas também levantando questões urgentes em relação à ética na pesquisa. Entendemos dessa forma, que todo dispositivo audiovisual traz consigo um epistemologia informada pela prática etnográfica e nos interessa justamente enfrentar esse debate.
subject: Dossier Ethnographies at the Touch of the Screen
  topic: section
subject: Etnografia
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subject: Smartphone
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subject: Cotidiano
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subject: Ética na pesquisa
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subject: Multi-modalidade
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subject: Colaboração
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creator: Andrea Barbosa
creator: Angela Torresan
creator: Antonia Gama
creator: Tatiana Bacal
rights: Copyright (c) 2023 Andrea Barbosa, Angela Torresan, Antonia Gama, Tatiana Bacal https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e230575
ending page: e230575
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.230575

Digital inequality: algorithmic racism in the context of teenage mothers on Instagram
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description: The research aims to reflect on the concepts of algorithmic racism and machinic eugenics in the light of two profiles of young mothers on Instagram, which were followed during the first two years of the pandemic: Ana Luiza, a young, white, middle-class mother living in the south of Brazil; and Giovanna, a young, black, working-class mother living in the southeast of the country. They are both the same age, but from different social backgrounds. The content they produce is similar, but they are viewed unequally by the Instagram algorithm. The concepts involved raise questions about artificial intelligence and how it works, in other words, the fact that it reproduces and reinforces macro-social structures. There is a logic of sale on Instagram platform: people are products and producers, but the algorithms control visibility according to certain logics of subordination.
subject: Dossiê inteligência artificial em perspectiva crítica: contribuições antropológicas e imaginários tecnológicos
  topic: section
subject: Instagram
  topic: keywords
subject: Teenage pregnancy
  topic: keywords
subject: Youth
  topic: keywords
subject: Digital coloniality
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creator: Thais Cristina de Souza Silva
creator: Amanda Silva Teixeira
creator: Luisa Brito de Oliveira
creator: Cristiane da Silva Cabral
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e228375
ending page: e228375
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.228375

Photographs and bonding: revisiting my own archive
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description: This article reflects on the photographs taken during my fieldwork in Yalálag, a Zapotec Indigenous community, in 2007. My reflections were prompted by the impact of recent images produced by Yalaltec photographer Citlali Fabián. The connection between my photographs and those of the Mexican photographer has opened up new perspectives, raised questions, and offered insights based on my experience as an anthropologist in the Zapotec village.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Photography
  topic: keywords
subject: Fieldwork
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subject: Zapotec peoples
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subject: Archives
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creator: Mariana Petroni
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Mariana Petroni https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e227654
ending page: e227654
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.227654

Post-indicial photojournalism, challenges and trends
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description: This article proposes a theoretical reflection on the pressures that faced by photojournalism with the popularization of image production applications using Artificial Intelligence (AI). This new socio-technical scenario can be understood in the context of a historical reflection on the very emergence of contemporary photography practices. The aim here is to understand, based on the theoretical review on the topic, the observation of periodicals, photojournalism images and images produced by AI, the shift in theoretical thinking about photography from “that was” to the proposal of simulacrum of “that It’s a possible world”. As a result, it becomes evident that despite being in a period of transition, advancements such as Artificial Intelligence are paving the way for new horizons in photojournalism.
subject: Dossiê inteligência artificial em perspectiva crítica: contribuições antropológicas e imaginários tecnológicos
  topic: section
subject: Photojournalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Image
  topic: keywords
subject: Artificial intelligence
  topic: keywords
subject: Photography
  topic: keywords
subject: Index
  topic: keywords
creator: Ivan da Costa Alecrim Neto
creator: Carolina Dantas de Figueiredo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-20
publication date: 2025-11-20
starting page: e226641
ending page: e226641
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.226641

Equivocation and the construction of ethnographic knowledge in Why Kĩsêdjê Sing
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description: In this essay, I intend to demonstrate the productivity of the idea of equivocation for the construction of ethnographic knowledge. To do this, I perform a semiotic analysis of two examples taken from Anthony Seeger's ethnography Why Kĩsêdjê Sing. These examples were chosen because they reveal how equivocations are made in fieldwork, allowing us to notice how knowledge about a given subject is constructed. Rather than just having finished knowledge, rather than just a demonstration of what was learned during fieldwork, we have a discourse that demonstrates the process that made it possible to obtain this knowledge. So, the result is presented and the process that made that result possible is also made explicit. I also point out that equivocations during ethnographic practice emerge from ontological conflicts established by the relationship between the ontologies of the ethnographer and his interlocutors.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Ethnography
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subject: Ethnomusicology
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subject: Semiotics
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subject: Equivocation
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subject: Ontological conflict
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creator: Renato Albuquerque de Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e224212
ending page: e224212
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.224212

Divergent survivances
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description: This article reflects on the divergent grammars for inheritance and heritability in the ongoing shadow of colonialism and the Black Atlantic. Initially, two divergent approaches to survival are discussed: that of the French philosopher Jacques Derrida and that of the Chippewa literary critic Gerald Vizenor. Next, the book project The Inheritance (Povinelli 2021) is briefly discussed, a visual historiography of the effects of colonialism and racism on two groups of clans: the author’s Simonaz clan, who moved from a small village in the Italian Alps to the United States, and the clans of the Karrabing Film Collective, whose lands were invaded at almost precisely the same time in the 19th century. In conclusion, the initial arguments are back to asking how we can think about alliances with other people, forged from histories of dispossession, without forgetting that we do not all share the same sedimentations of the history of dispossession.
subject: T.I.R. - Translations, Interviews and Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Colonialism
  topic: keywords
subject: Survivance
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subject: Inheritance
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subject: Derrida
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subject: Vizenor
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creator: Elizabeth Povinelli
creator: Joana Plaza Pinto
creator: Maria Clara Capel de Ataides
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-22
publication date: 2025-11-22
starting page: e224873
ending page: e224873
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.224873

Roda de conversa com Richard Schechner
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description: A Roda de Conversa com Richard Schechner ocorreu no primeiro dia do evento "Sismologia da Performance: Napedra 20 Anos", realizado durante o período de 22 de novembro a 10 de dezembro de 2021, pelo Núcleo de Antropologia, Performance e Drama (Napedra) da Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Vários assuntos foram discutidos na roda, incluindo: fake news; a pandemia; comportamento restaurado; montagem; presente, futuro e passado; performances da esquerda e da direita; antropoceno; teoria do caos; O fim do humanismo; a invenção de Deus e "admirável mundo novo".
subject: T.I.R. - Translations, Interviews and Reviews
  topic: section
creator: John Cowart Dawsey
creator: Pâmilla Vilas Boas Ribeiro
creator: André-Kees de Moraes Schouten
creator: Eliany Cristina Ortiz Funari
creator: João Paulo Campos
creator: Paulo Raposo
creator: Robson Corrêa de Camargo
creator: Rubens Alves da Silva
creator: Scott Head
creator: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 John Cowart Dawsey, Pâmilla Vilas Boas Ribeiro, André-Kees de Moraes Schouten, Eliany Cristina Ortiz Funari, João Paulo Campos, Paulo Raposo, Robson Corrêa de Camargo, Rubens Alves da Silva, Scott Head, Sylvia Caiuby Novaes https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e223680
ending page: e223680
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.223680

The art of kindling drums: the senses of fire in the musical performances of afro-uruguayan candombe
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description: The text offers observations on the tradition of fire in the musical performances of Afro-Uruguayan candombe, a cultural manifestation marked by the presence of the drums chico, piano and repique. Based on ethnographic work, the author shows that the moment of "templar los tambores" has different meanings. As well as fulfilling the technical objective of the tuning of the leather, the fire creates a propitious atmosphere that acts on moods, on the energizing relationships between tamborileros and their percussive instruments and on the rhythmic execution of the comparsas that march through the streets. The text associates this practice with the construction of a "social environment" (Meyer 2019) and highlights the importance of intuition and bodily sensations (Ingold 2000) in the materialization of candombe's ancestry. Recognizing the igneous dimension of this ritual is crucial to understanding the strength, magic and processes of affectation inherent in this collective musical expression.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Afro-Uruguayan candombe
  topic: keywords
subject: Candombe
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subject: drums
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subject: fire
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subject: sound energy
  topic: keywords
subject: atmosphere
  topic: keywords
creator: Lisandro Lucas de Lima Moura
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e222977
ending page: e222977
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.222977

Moves and artists from the northernzone of Rio de Janeiro
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description: This text revisits refl ections from my master’s research, in which I followed a group of high school students from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro as they engaged in the creation of a theatrical play. I analyze elements of historical and cultural territoriality inscribed in the dramaturgical development process, connecting specific situations and statements from the personal trajectories of two young artists, captured during our interactions and recorded on digital video. With the methodological aim of questioning this empirical approach, I seek to draw on different theoretical frameworks on intersubjectivity, particularly inspired by the conceptual approach of ethnobiography.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Artists
  topic: keywords
subject: Audiovisual
  topic: keywords
subject: Community
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethnobiography
  topic: keywords
subject: Intersubjectivity
  topic: keywords
creator: Paulo Castiglioni Lara
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Paulo Castiglioni Lara https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e220431
ending page: e220431
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.220431

Rapatriement digital: l’exemple du fond de la mission de recherche folklorique sur les pankararu
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description: Em 1938, Mário de Andrade criou no Departamento de Cultura da cidade de São Paulo a Missão de Pesquisas Folklóricas, cujo objetivo era percorrer as regiões norte e nordeste do Brasil para coletar material etnográfico e museográfico de culturas populares. No início de março de 1938, a Missão foi para a aldeia Pankararu de Brejo dos Padres, no estado de Pernambuco, aonde coletou artefatos e registrou manifestações culturais. Esses arquivos estão hoje na Discoteca Oneyda Alvarenga, no Centro Cultural São Paulo, e foram recentemente repatriados digitalmente para os Pankararu que vivem em São Paulo. Este ensaio fotográfico faz uma retrospetiva da coleta e da repatriação e analisa as dinâmicas criadas.
subject: Gesture, image and sounds
  topic: section
subject: Missão de Pesquisas Folclóricas
  topic: keywords
subject: Pankararu
  topic: keywords
subject: Repatriação digital
  topic: keywords
subject: História
  topic: keywords
subject: Fotografia
  topic: keywords
creator: Cyril Menta
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Cyril Menta https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e215012
ending page: e215012
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.215012

Light, aroma and heat
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description: This photographic essay is the result of an ethnographic experience in Maputo, Southern Mozambique. I pay special attention to things that produce luminosity, aromas, and warmth, mainly incense, candles, and lights. The aesthetics of Zion churches (African Independent Churches) show that fire and its elements go beyond symbols or representations of spiritual realities. These components contribute to the production of a unique religious atmosphere in which bodies, senses, spirits, things, and various chemical elements are entangled.
subject: Gesture, image and sounds
  topic: section
subject: Antropology
  topic: keywords
subject: Senses
  topic: keywords
subject: Mozambique
  topic: keywords
subject: Zion
  topic: keywords
subject: Fire
  topic: keywords
creator: Clayton Guerreiro
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Clayton Guerreiro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e219529
ending page: e219529
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.219529

For a Poetics of Sound Archives: the Itinerary of Capiba's 'Eh Uá Calunga' Maracatu
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description: Maracatu is a cultural practice and a music genre from the eighteenth century, born in Pernambuco, a state in the northeastern region of Brazil. In 1937, the composer and maestro Capiba released “Eh Uá Calunga”, a song that mixes the sound of Maracatu with hybrid references. The song was part of the Brazilian movie “Samba da Vida” soundtrack and later, in 1960, was transformed into Fado by the singer Amália Rodrigues. In this article, we perceive the sound archive as an ethnographic narrative and seek to analyze the song as a sign of transit and, at the same time, a powerful portrait of aesthetic flows sponsored by the music industry in the twentieth century.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Eh Uá Calunga
  topic: keywords
subject: Maracatu
  topic: keywords
subject: Fado
  topic: keywords
subject: Song
  topic: keywords
subject: Archive
  topic: keywords
creator: Luiz Ribeiro Fonseca
rights: Copyright (c) 2025
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e211699
ending page: e211699
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.211699

SOME THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO STUDYING TRAJECTORIES OF FREE FIRE GAME INFLUENCERS
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description: This article examines Free Fire, a popular virtual game, as a space for interaction and career development for young people. Through the application of methodologies such as biographies, life stories, and ethnobiography, it explores contemporary gamer culture. The importance of individual narratives of influencers is emphasized, as they shape their images for followers, revealing a complex interplay between the virtual persona and reality. Free Fire transcends entertainment, becoming a genuine environment for the formation of authentic identities and social interactions. With millions of daily users, the game plays a central role in solidifying and redefining current youth culture. Keywords: Free Fire; Gamer culture; Social interactions; Careers in gaming; Influencer narratives.
subject: Dossier Ethnographies at the Touch of the Screen
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subject: Free Fire; Gamer culture; Social interactions; Careers in gaming; Influencer narratives.
  topic: keywords
creator: Diego Lucas Nunes de Souza
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Diego Lucas Nunes de Souza https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e216455
ending page: e216455
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.216455

SMARTPHONES AND THE COLLABORATIVE MULTIPLE OF 'IMPERFECT CINEMAS': EXPERIENCES OF PRODUCTION AND CIRCULATION OF INDIGENOUS MEDIA DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC
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description: O artigo-fílmico discute a produção e circulação de mídias indígenas com smartphone durante a pandemia de COVID-19, objeto indispensável para elaboração e divulgação dos resultados. Ele é baseado na experiência e relatos de colaboração entre técnico audiovisual não-indígena com indígenas Nambikuara, Tikuna e Xavante para elaborar três curtas-metragens tematicamente relacionados com a agrobiodiversidade durante evento intitulado Mutirão Vivo Online. O conceito de ‘cinemas imperfeitos’ é instrumentalizado para refletir como smartphones, na sua praticidade e imediatismo em produzir e consumir materiais audiovisuais, promovem formas de soberania midiática em cinemas indígenas. Múltiplas formas de colaborações são descritas a partir de como smartphones são performados, tais como alto-falantes para decisões comunitárias, filmadoras camufladas, sistemas de arquivamento e/ou de transferência audiovisual, telas para visualização de filmes, dentre outras. Argumenta-se que, a partir das adaptações colaborativas das formas de se performar o smartphone, mundos compartilhados são criados e tornados visíveis feito os próprios resultados fílmicos.
subject: Dossier Ethnographies at the Touch of the Screen
  topic: section
subject: Cinema
  topic: keywords
subject: COVID-19
  topic: keywords
subject: Colaboração
  topic: keywords
subject: Povos indígenas
  topic: keywords
subject: Smartphones
  topic: keywords
creator: Markus S. Enk
creator: Milton Halotesu Nambikuara
creator: Myrian Vasquez
creator: NEWIWE ANA MIRANDA TOP'TIRO
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Markus S. Enk, Milton Nambikuara, Myrian Vasquez Tikuna, Newi Top'Tiro https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e215440
ending page: e215440
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.215440