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: Warburg antropólogo ou o deciframento de uma utopia: da biologia das imagens à antropologia da memória
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: 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: Equivocation and the construction of ethnographic knowledge in Why Kĩsêdjê Sing
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 maracatu “Eh Uá Calunga”, by Capiba
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
items: TECHNOPOETIC MEANS OF ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
items: The estrangement of other’s gaze in the selfie era
items: A Koladera: hipóteses para uma genealogia
items: Katherine Dunham: her contribution to anthropology and possible challenges to ethnomusicology
items: Whatsapp as a battlefield: ethical-methodological reflections based on ethnography in evangelical prayer groups
items: The body as country: gender and politics in the work of Laerte Coutinho
items: Dialogues between anthropology of law and performance
items: Community music groups and the impact of the pandemic: a case study of the banda Dona Gabriela
items: Por uma “semântica da potência”: o caso de um “cinema menor” no brasil recente
items: Homenagem a Mestre Pinguim, doutor de notório saber pelo núcleo de antropologia, performance e drama da Universidade de São Paulo
items: Meu pajé: ayahuasca, transe e imagens oníricas
items: Por uma gramatologia da festa

Warburg antropólogo ou o deciframento de uma utopia: da biologia das imagens à antropologia da memória
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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
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subject: Cryptoglyphs
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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: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
creator: Rodrigo Frare Baroni
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Carlo Severi; Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, Rodrigo Frare Baroni https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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
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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 Soraya Fleischer https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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 Laure Garrabé, Maria Fernanda Viana https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e230965
ending page: e230965
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.230965

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 Adriana Nunes Souza https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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
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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
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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
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subject: Algorithmic racism
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subject: Machinic eugenics
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subject: Instagram
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subject: Teenage pregnancy
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creator: Thais Cristina de Souza Silva
creator: Amanda Silva Teixeira
creator: Cristiane da Silva Cabral
creator: Luisa Brito de Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Thais Cristina de Souza Silva, Amanda Silva Teixeira, Cristiane da Silva Cabral, Luisa Brito de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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
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subject: Photography
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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

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 Renato Albuquerque de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e224212
ending page: e224212
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.224212

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
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subject: Afro-Uruguayan candombe
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subject: drums
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subject: fire
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subject: sound energy
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subject: atmosphere
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creator: Lisandro Lucas de Lima Moura
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Lisandro Lucas de Lima Moura https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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
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subject: Audiovisual
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subject: Community
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subject: Ethnobiography
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subject: Intersubjectivity
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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
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subject: Pankararu
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subject: Repatriação digital
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subject: História
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subject: Fotografia
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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
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subject: Mozambique
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subject: Zion
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subject: Fire
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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 maracatu “Eh Uá Calunga”, by Capiba
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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
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subject: Fado
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subject: Song
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subject: Archive
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creator: Luiz Claudio Ribeiro Sales Fonseca
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Luiz Claudio Ribeiro Sales Fonseca https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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.
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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

TECHNOPOETIC MEANS OF ETHNOGRAPHY IN THE DIGITAL AGE
type: item
description: Understanding that ethnographies also happen at the touch of the screen is to recognize the confluences between the imagery, the verbal, the sound, as embedded impregnations of/in the present time. In this article I sought to address some situations that allow us to think about the presence of smartphones, their technical potential and sensitive mediations during ethnographic processes. This also implies problematizing the potential and limits inherent to these tools, through which we communicate and seek to establish correspondence relationships. Understanding that they are not just tools, but produce specific agencies, relationships and processes of subjectivation. They are technopoetic means.
subject: Dossier Ethnographies at the Touch of the Screen
  topic: section
subject: Antropologia compartilhada; Etnografia Multimodal; Trabalho de campo; Mediações técnico-poéticas; Digital.
  topic: keywords
creator: Daniele Borges Bezerra
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Daniele Borges Bezerra https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e216630
ending page: e216630
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.216630

The estrangement of other’s gaze in the selfie era
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description: The text addresses the change in the dynamics of photographic portraiture with the emergence and popularization of selfies on social media. The author, upon noticing the discomfort of some clients and friends facing their own portraits, reflects on how the practice of the selfie has transformed photography into a more self-centered and idealized act. The text argues that narcissism in contemporary culture contributes to this change, emphasizing the control of the Self over one’s own image to avoid the critical gaze of the Other. The reflection suggests that this removal of the Other’s gaze obscures the enriching possibilities offered by diverse points of view.
subject: Gesture, image and sounds
  topic: section
subject: Photographic portraiture
  topic: keywords
subject: Selfie
  topic: keywords
subject: Narcissism
  topic: keywords
subject: Show of the Self
  topic: keywords
subject: Self-centering
  topic: keywords
creator: Michel de Oliveira
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Michel de Oliveira https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-08
publication date: 2024-08-08
starting page: e219159
ending page: e219159
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.219159

A Koladera: hipóteses para uma genealogia
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description: The aim of this article is to present and reflect on some hypotheses for the emergence of koladera. This musical genre from Cape Verde, West Africa, is about to complete a century of existence and is one of the most prominent in the context of musical practices in the country. However, it remains practically without academic studies that analyze its trajectory. Bibliographic research and interviews reveal the presence in Cabo Verde of inputs – such as polka and gallop, from Europe, and maxixe, from Brazil – which may have influenced the genesis of this musical expression. Relating historical and ethnographic data with technical aspects of the rhythmic patterns, based on the analysis of a sample of records, is proposed as a path to understanding the birth of the koladera and a contribution to awakening interest in its study.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Koladera; Música Popular; Cabo Verde; Música Cabo-Verdiana, Morna
  topic: keywords
creator: Glaucia Aparecida Nogueira
creator: Djoy Amado
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Gláucia Nogueira, Djoy Amado https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e216749
ending page: e216749
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.216749

Katherine Dunham: her contribution to anthropology and possible challenges to ethnomusicology
type: item
description: This article intends to find interconnecting points between Ethnomusicology and the work of the anthropologist, dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham (1909-2006), based on the analysis of her monograph called Dances of Haiti (1947/1983) and her collection of videos, images and texts available on the website of the Library of Congress of the United States. Key aspects highlighted in the analysis include her research methodology, which incorporates the body and dance as producers and disseminators of knowledge, as well as the choice of documenting expressive forms made by Dunham. The article concludes by contemplating the potential impact of her contributions to the field of Ethnomusicology, particularly concerning Afro-diasporic music and dance, and examines the reasons for her neglect within this area of study.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Katherine Dunham
  topic: keywords
subject: Ethnomusicology
  topic: keywords
subject: Dance Anthropology
  topic: keywords
subject: Caribbean
  topic: keywords
subject: Visual Anthropology
  topic: keywords
creator: Carolina Paes de Barros
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Carolina Paes de Barros https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e216073
ending page: e216073
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.216073

Whatsapp as a battlefield: ethical-methodological reflections based on ethnography in evangelical prayer groups
type: item
description: How can anthropological research help to understand the effects of the centrality of the use of digital media in everyday religious life? Distancing myself from apparent and erroneous oppositions between traditional and modern that questions like this often raise, I investigated ways in which the use of smartphones is configured as “battlefields” for praying, preaching, telling testimonies, establishing intimacy with God and overcoming demons. . Through ethnography in “prayer groups” composed of evangelical women, I reflect in this article on my positionality in fieldwork carried out in co-presence circuits that included churches, homes and two WhatsApp groups leaded by a couple of Pentecostal pastors. By exploring the ambivalent meanings in the religious uses of cell phones, I point to intersectional dynamics that make WhatsApp a central religious device for non-institutionalized pastoral careers and the collective exercise of evangelical faith.
subject: Dossier Ethnographies at the Touch of the Screen
  topic: section
subject: WhatsApp
  topic: keywords
subject: Evangelicals
  topic: keywords
subject: Digital ethnography
  topic: keywords
subject: Smartphones
  topic: keywords
subject: Intersectionality
  topic: keywords
creator: Lorena Mochel
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Lorena Mochel https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-08
publication date: 2024-08-08
starting page: e216670
ending page: e216670
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.216670

The body as country: gender and politics in the work of Laerte Coutinho
type: item
description: The objective of the work is to follow the production of the cartoonist Laerte Coutinho in the most diverse phases, having as a central focus the issues of gender and politics. Her multiple aspects and facets will be presented, from the union collaboration, the militancy in the Brazilian Communist Party and the decisive contribution in the magazines "Chiclete com Banana" and "Piratas do Tietê". The research seeks to follow the artist's turn from 2004 to 2016 to accompany the questioning in relation to the genre itself, which took place together with transformations in the way of producing comics, where a greater political and reflexive engagement stands out. The methodology adopts critical discourse analysis, beyond the textual, deserving attention the imagetic components, not only the cartoons themselves, but the traces of identity and gender performance inscribed in the works.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Politics
  topic: keywords
subject: Gender
  topic: keywords
subject: Cartoonist
  topic: keywords
subject: Image
  topic: keywords
subject: Comics
  topic: keywords
creator: Marcio José Melo Malta
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Marcio Malta https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2025-11-11
publication date: 2025-11-11
starting page: e210219
ending page: e210219
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2025.210219

Dialogues between anthropology of law and performance
type: item
description: This text’s title is the same as the Panel that provided, in the end of 2021, a reunion between these four researchers and the remembrance of an important point of convergence in their trajectories: the Anthropology, Performance and Drama Nucleus at the University of São Paulo (NAPEDRA-USP). In this article, Ana Letícia de Fiori points out the interfaces between crimes and dangers attributed to games. Bruna Angotti narrates the power of a performance-seminar for the development of her doctorate. Jânia Perla Diógenes de Aquino recovers anthropological-performance analyzes of major bank robberies and Ana Lúcia Pastore Schritzmeyer tells how parts of NAPEDRA’s history and some of her researches in anthropology of law intermeshed and fed back each other.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Crimes
  topic: keywords
subject: Games
  topic: keywords
subject: Performance-seminar
  topic: keywords
subject: Major bank robberies
  topic: keywords
subject: Anthropology of law and performance
  topic: keywords
creator: Ana Lucia Pastore Schritzmeyer
creator: Ana Letícia de Fiori
creator: Jânia Perla Diógenes de Aquino
creator: Bruna Angotti
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Ana Lucia Pastore Schritzmeyer, Jania Perla de Aquino, Ana Letícia de Fiori, Bruna Angotti https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-08
publication date: 2024-08-08
starting page: e217364
ending page: e217364
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.217364

Community music groups and the impact of the pandemic: a case study of the banda Dona Gabriela
type: item
description: The Banda Dona Gabriela is a brass band from São João da Boa Vista - SP, with over 80 years of existence, that regularly performs in the central square of the city. Like many community music groups, the Banda Dona Gabriela halted its activities during the Covid-19 pandemic, resuming them in a different way only in May 2022. In this article, we present the history and an ethnography of the band’s activities with the aim of analyzing the impacts and challenges that the pandemic had on the group. Drawing on the concept of Communities of Practice, we analyze the ensemble’s everyday practices and identify endemic tensions in community groups, which, as we argue, were exacerbated by the pandemic.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Bandas de música
  topic: keywords
subject: Covid-19
  topic: keywords
subject: Comunidades de Prática
  topic: keywords
subject: Musicar local
  topic: keywords
subject: Etnografia
  topic: keywords
creator: João Henrique Amancio Gião
creator: Suzel Ana Reily
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 João Henrique Amancio Gião, Suzel Ana Reily https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e214870
ending page: e214870
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.214870

Por uma “semântica da potência”: o caso de um “cinema menor” no brasil recente
type: item
description: Drawing on Lula’s Angels (As Panteras do Lula), a fake trailer which premiered on the Zel Junior YouTube channel and went viral in March/April 2022, this essay discusses the construction of a “semantics of power” within the context of an “impotent aesthetic” in contemporary Brazil. The experiment here proposed is grounded on the analysis of Zel’s work, it’s form and content. Therefore, we based the text estructure in the following sections: 1) the artist-director-interlocutor and his (non-)film; 2) the sociopolitical contexto in Brazil; 3) theoretical-conceptual perspectives, through conversations with authors, such as B. Epinosa, F. Guatarri, G. Deleuze, A. Honneth, W. Brown e J. Butler.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Cinema menor
  topic: keywords
subject: Semântica da potência
  topic: keywords
subject: Linhas de fuga
  topic: keywords
subject: Reconhecimento
  topic: keywords
subject: Zel Junior
  topic: keywords
creator: Eliska Altmann
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Eliska Altmann https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e215976
ending page: e215976
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.215976

Homenagem a Mestre Pinguim, doutor de notório saber pelo núcleo de antropologia, performance e drama da Universidade de São Paulo
type: item
description: Our text approaches individual and collective memories experienced with Master Pinguim, intertwined with moments lived with Master Gato Preto and some works developed by the Group of Capoeira Angola Guerreiros de Senzala, pointing out the creation of the Afro-Brazilian Arts Center at the University of São Paulo (USP) until current days. The dynamics of the text is divided into two parts, with different authorship in each of them: the first part, in a narrative tone, refers to the period from 1997, the beginning of the Group’s work at USP, to 2007, the year of the Center's official creation. The second part moves between personal accounts and their connections regarding the epistemological and pedagogical importance of Mestre Pinguim's work at the University of São Paulo, which brought together other masters of renowned knowledge in this collective construction that is the Afro-Brazilian Arts Center, many of whom started to visit and revisit our Place year after year.
subject: Gesture, image and sounds
  topic: section
subject: Mestre Pinguim
  topic: keywords
subject: Mestre Gato
  topic: keywords
subject: Capoeira Angola
  topic: keywords
subject: Grupo Guerreiros de Senzala
  topic: keywords
subject: Núcleo de Artes Afro-brasileiras da Universidade de São Paulo
  topic: keywords
creator: Thiago Marcelo Mendes
creator: Eliany Cristina Ortiz Funari
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Thiago Marcelo Mendes, Eliany Cristina Ortiz Funari https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e216907
ending page: e216907
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.216907

Meu pajé: ayahuasca, transe e imagens oníricas
type: item
description: Este ensaio navega pelas performances de xamanismos urbanos ayahuasqueiros procurando lançar luz sobre a experiência e os conhecimentos produzidos pelo transe. Explora algumas aproximações entre o transe e o sonho, atento às incorporações de imagens oníricas na dramaturgia dos rituais criados pelas camadas médias e médias altas em São Paulo. Iça suas velas com os estudos de John Dawsey e Michel Taussig, sem qualquer pretensão de alcançar um ancoradouro seguro.
subject: Gesture, image and sounds
  topic: section
subject: Ritual
  topic: keywords
subject: Transe
  topic: keywords
subject: Ayahuasca
  topic: keywords
subject: Xamanismo urbano
  topic: keywords
subject: Sonho
  topic: keywords
creator: Carolina de Camargo Abreu
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Carolina de Camargo Abreu https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e216910
ending page: e216910
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.216910

Por uma gramatologia da festa
type: item
description: Este texto apresenta para discussão uma proposta embrionária, de uma gramatologia da festa, fruto de um ciclo de trabalho, que vem ocorrendo desde 2009, quando comecei – de modo sistemático, contínuo e articulado – a desenvolver projetos na tripla articulação entre festa, religião e cidade, tendo como foco privilegiado as procissões da Semana Santa, particularmente a procissão dos Passos, tematizando as variadas possibilidades empíricas e conceituais de suas modulações, de suas interfaces, e de suas articulações, desde uma visada comparativa Brasil-Portugal e que compõe projeto em curso – Festa, religião e cidade: interfaces e modulações luso-brasileiras III: experiência e expertise, fechamento de uma década de estudos – dotado de bolsa de produtividade do Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico (CNPq). Tomando como ponto de partida, a experiência e a expertise adquiridos, quero propor a possibilidade de uma gramatologia da festa, ancorada na perspectiva derridiana (Derrida 1973), assentada em três planos/níveis modulados/articulados entre si: experiência da escritura na escritura da experiência, passos de pesquisa e passos de procissão e fazer corpo na duração do fazer corpo.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Gramatologia
  topic: keywords
subject: Festa
  topic: keywords
subject: Experiência
  topic: keywords
subject: Expertise
  topic: keywords
creator: Léa Freitas Perez
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Léa Freitas Perez https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
date: 2024-08-21
publication date: 2024-08-21
starting page: e218043
ending page: e218043
doi: 10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2024.218043