Revista de Antropologia
type: channel
description: Founded by Egon Shaden in 1953, Revista de Antropologia was the first Brazilian journal of anthropology. At present, it is the international and bilingual journal of the Department of Anthropology of the Philosophy, Literature and Human Sciences Faculty at the University of São Paulo – FFLCH/USP. Revista de Antropologia will adopt, starting in 2023, the continuous publication modality with one volume per year. It will accept Articles, Reviews, Interviews, Dossiers and Photographic Essays at any time of the year, as submissions and publications are made in a continuous flow.
publisher: Universidade de São Paulo. Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas
language: en
publication name: Revista de Antropologia
issn: 0034-7701
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items: The technique of jurisprudence
items: Emotions as connectors in the webs of worlds. Towards an expanded anthropology of emotions
items: Introduction to the Special Issue: Revolution Talks; Ethnographies and Histories of a Political Endorser
items: Comentário ao debate |Brasil e seu papel pardo
items: Comentário ao debate | A influência da luta pelas cotas na dinâmica das identidades raciais no Brasil
items: Comentário ao debate | Negritude como força centrípeta: o pardo em disputa
items: Comentário ao debate | Os múltiplos sentidos do “pardo”
items: Resposta | Quem é pardo no Brasil?
items: Autenticidad y violencia: Tradiciones revolucionarias en México y Venezuela. Entrevista con Claudio Lomnitz y Rafael Sánchez
items: Amerindian political representation and presentation: coexistence and hybridization of political regimes in tropical South America
items: The Weight of Hair: Relationships Between Corporeality, Hair Aesthetics, and Non-Binarity
items: From affiliation to factionalism - political dynamics in the production of associations by Brazilian football supporters
items: On terror and ethnocide
items: Those who insist
items: Entre a proteção e a exploração, a caça
items: Multispecies ethnography in the mayan máasewaalo'ob solar sites: care practices and more-than-human worlds
items: No Single Reason to Move: Mobility Decision-Making among Syrians and Palestinian Familiesin Brazil
items: The "work of emotion" in navigating im-mobility experienced by migrants and asylum seekers
items: Gazes and agencies: an anthropological approach to experimental films
items: Effluvia of gamonalism: the resilience of the symbolic worldof the hacienda in the Andes of Ecuador
items: Listen to the elements: the ethno-metaphysical proposal in The East of Dreams
items: Weaponizing Near Eastern archaeology: violence, amnesia and the ‘cultural heritage experts’ − then, now and suggestions for a different future
items: Experimentando com documentos
items: The Right to International Protection in the Face of Double Standards and the Dark Side of Group Logic: Anthropological Reflections
items: The humanitarian as capital accumulation: from mobility constraints to housing issues
items: Solidarities in Network and Networks of Solidarity: Humanitarian Reception and Housing Policy in an Urban Occupation of Palestinian Refugees in São Paulo
items: The multiple existences of glyphoste: an ethnopgrahy of the agri-food industries by following a poison
items: Reler Malinowski pela primeira vez: revisitando um clássico
items: Nationalism, musealization and (de)coloniality in Barbados: some preliminary considerations on sexual and gender diversity amongst indigestible legacies ans false paradoxes
items: Race and color in contemporary Brazil, political opportunity and historical tendency

The technique of jurisprudence
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description: By describing the technical and documentary interventions that follow the judgments of the Brazilian Superior Court of Justice, the book A paixão do acesso, by Sara Munhoz, makes two original contributions to anthropological reflection on law. The first is to transform the very notion of jurisprudence by demonstrating that without sophisticated procedures for filtering, extracting, connecting and making available for consultation “legal theses” established in the rulings, with the use of digital resources, jurisprudence can no longer exist – and have repercussions – inside and outside the court. The second contribution, inseparable from the previous one, is to profoundly transform the issue of access, which gives the book its title. Instead of examining the obstacles to opening the doors of the judiciary to citizens, the counterintuitive choice of situating the observation at the “exit doors” of the court responsible for standardizing the interpretation of federal legislation deepens the understanding of how these two thresholds articulate. The ethnography explains how the joint work of human analysts and digital applications enhances the primacy of “exit doors” in determining what (and who) can pass through the court’s main entrance, by materializing its efforts to make the understandings it produces accessible and, thus, influencing the functioning of other instances of the judiciary, modulating its own entry and exit doors.
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Jurisprudence; digital technologies; access; Superior Court of Justice
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creator: Ciméa Bevilaqua
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-24
publication date: 2025-11-24
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.234779

Emotions as connectors in the webs of worlds. Towards an expanded anthropology of emotions
type: item
description: The problem of defining the dimension of emotions lies in how different conceptual attempts have prioritized some of the constitutive dimensions of the "human," configuring culturalist, psychologist, or biologist perspectives. The aim of this article is to think of emotions as "connectors," which, from their relational characteristic, link the different instances that make up the "human" and weaves the webs of life's worlds. My argumentation begins by developing the path followed by emotions as an analytical category for anthropological knowledge; secondly, I address the debate that emerged in the anthropology of emotions in the north-American context, which led to the constitution of the field, and finally, I develop ethnographic situations in dialogue with authors who share this expanded perspective on emotions proposed in this article.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: anthropology
  topic: keywords
subject: emotions
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subject: body
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subject: ethnography
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subject: psychology
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creator: Octavio Bonet
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-23
publication date: 2025-10-23
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.225337

Introduction to the Special Issue: Revolution Talks; Ethnographies and Histories of a Political Endorser
type: item
subject: "Revolution Talks" Special Issue
  topic: section
subject: Revolution
  topic: keywords
creator: João Felipe Gonçalves
creator: Inácio Dias Andrade
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-14
publication date: 2025-07-14
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.232987

Comentário ao debate |Brasil e seu papel pardo
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subject: Comentário ao debate raça e cor no brasil contemporâneo, oportunismo político e tendência histórica
  topic: section
subject: Debate
  topic: keywords
creator: Ynaê Lopes dos Santos
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-11-28
publication date: 2024-11-28
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.232960

Comentário ao debate | A influência da luta pelas cotas na dinâmica das identidades raciais no Brasil
type: item
subject: Comentário ao debate raça e cor no brasil contemporâneo, oportunismo político e tendência histórica
  topic: section
subject: Debate
  topic: keywords
creator: José Jorge de Carvalho
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-11-28
publication date: 2024-11-28
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.232957

Comentário ao debate | Negritude como força centrípeta: o pardo em disputa
type: item
subject: Comentário ao debate raça e cor no brasil contemporâneo, oportunismo político e tendência histórica
  topic: section
subject: Debate
  topic: keywords
creator: Joaze Bernardino-Costa
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-11-28
publication date: 2024-11-28
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.232955

Comentário ao debate | Os múltiplos sentidos do “pardo”
type: item
subject: Comentário ao debate raça e cor no brasil contemporâneo, oportunismo político e tendência histórica
  topic: section
subject: Debate
  topic: keywords
creator: Luiz Augusto Campos
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-11-28
publication date: 2024-11-28
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.232954

Resposta | Quem é pardo no Brasil?
type: item
subject: Comentário ao debate raça e cor no brasil contemporâneo, oportunismo político e tendência histórica
  topic: section
subject: Debate
  topic: keywords
creator: Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-11-28
publication date: 2024-11-28
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.232952

Autenticidad y violencia: Tradiciones revolucionarias en México y Venezuela. Entrevista con Claudio Lomnitz y Rafael Sánchez
type: item
description: Entrevista con Claudio Lomnitz y Rafael Sánchez
subject: "Revolution Talks" Special Issue
  topic: section
subject: dossier “revolution talks”
  topic: keywords
subject: entrevista
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subject: Claudio Lomnitz
  topic: keywords
subject: Rafael Sánchez
  topic: keywords
creator: João Felipe Gonçalves
creator: Julián Cuaspa Ropaín
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-14
publication date: 2025-07-14
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.232937

Amerindian political representation and presentation: coexistence and hybridization of political regimes in tropical South America
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description: Apresentação do dossiê Representação e presentação política ameríndia: coexistência e hibridização de regimes do político na América do Sul tropical, vol. 1.
subject: Special Issue Amerindian political representation and "presentation" vol. 1
  topic: section
subject: Representação
  topic: keywords
subject: América do Sul tropical
  topic: keywords
subject: política ameríndia
  topic: keywords
creator: Adriana Queiroz Testa
creator: Alexandre Surrallés
creator: Márcio Silva
creator: Renato Sztutman
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-03-26
publication date: 2025-03-26
starting page: e231476
ending page: e231476
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.231476

The Weight of Hair: Relationships Between Corporeality, Hair Aesthetics, and Non-Binarity
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description: This article portrays investments in hair made by non-binary people at a beard and hair studio located in São Paulo. Such investments will be understood as technologies for gender materialization in gendered corporealities and aesthetic stabilizations of relationships; intersecting with other materializations, such as class and race, in ways that create unequivocalities of gender or porvoke transitions, flowsx and displacements. The text is also a methological investment that discusses the potentials and limitations of the autoethnographic method, wile proposing another transepistemological approach: dirty ethnography. Hair interventions conducted within the framework of non-binariness simultaneously constitute possibilities for gender transition, challenging understandings of transsexuality and transgender identity within medical and psychosocial sciences, and represent terrible beauties capable os inhabiting the trope of monstrosity associated with trans people formulated by the cisheteronorm. The article ultimately shifts the idea of the body as understood within the sexual difference paradigm.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: não-binariedade de gênero
  topic: keywords
subject: cabelo
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subject: estética
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subject: corpo
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subject: beleza
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creator: Brune Mantese de Souza
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-02
publication date: 2025-10-02
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.230214

From affiliation to factionalism - political dynamics in the production of associations by Brazilian football supporters
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description: Once defined as a modern totemism that establishes communality, football clubs are an important form of social relations in Brazil, as they produce collective feelings of affinity and rivalry via football. Beyond its fundamental logics of adherence, they also produce their own centrifugal tendencies, recognisable through its various processes of segmentation. These dynamics could be described as a schismogenesis that starts collective associations derived from clubs. To delve into the dynamics of the production of these collectivises, we analysed three modalities of the supporters' groups in Brazilian clubs (the Torcidas Uniformizadas, the Torcidas Organizadas and the Barras). Our approach emphasises the segmentary dynamics, often factional, of the pulverisation of supporters' associations. By pointing out the aesthetic issues involved in each mode of regimentation, we argue that the different supporters' groups can be thought of as having created their own forms of political participation beyond–and within–their football clubs.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Supporters’ groups
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subject: Club affiliation
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subject: Football clubs
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subject: Politics
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subject: Factionalism
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creator: Vinícius Teixeira Pinto
creator: Arlei Damo
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-23
publication date: 2025-10-23
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.229466

On terror and ethnocide
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description: Comentário de Gabriel Feltran ao dossiê Terror e Intimidade: Perspectivas etnográficas e desafios conceituais.
subject: Comentário ao dossiê Terror e Intimidade
  topic: section
subject: Terror
  topic: keywords
subject: Intimacy
  topic: keywords
subject: Dossier
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creator: Gabriel Feltran
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-10-14
publication date: 2024-10-14
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.2022.228196

Those who insist
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description: The Belgian philosopher Vinciane Despret (1959) adds a new book to her intellectual production, focusing on the relationships between the living and the dead. She previously explored this theme in To the Health of the Dead: Stories of Those Who Remain (2021), published by Cactus, and now presents Dead to the Work (2024) through the same publisher. The title itself suggests the core of the book. By altering the colloquial phrase "hands to work," Despret condenses and anticipates the material she offers the reader: artistic productions demanded after a death, whether recent or distant. Dead to the Work is a book composed of five stories, all linked by the productivity of the dead. Despret describes and historicizes the "insistence" of the "common dead" and the works attributed to them. The events narrated here feature victims of femicide, traffic accidents, war, the judicial system, and terrorism. Even though these dead are no longer among the living—a statement that is only partially true—their insistence gives birth to gardens, visual artworks, architectural projects, and musical pieces.
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Dead to the work
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subject: Vinciane Despret
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subject: Review
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creator: Sergio Ibisate Lemus
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-14
publication date: 2025-07-14
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.228131

Entre a proteção e a exploração, a caça
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description: Trata-se de um resenha crítica da obra recente de Charles Stépanoff, L'animal et la mort: chasses, modernité et crise du sauvage, que investiga os fundamentos das relações modernas dispensadas aos animais e à natureza em geral. Essas relações são sintetizadas pelo autor em duas atitudes polares com o mundo selvagem: a proteção e a exploração. Entretanto, uma atividade se coloca de maneira embaraçosa entre esse polos: a caça. L'animal et la mort se dedica a uma mergulho analítico sobre a caça praticada no interior da França por populações rurais e caçadores regulares que visitam a região, e descreve aspectos da ecologia e da ética, dos fundamentos cosmológicos e políticos da atividade. O antropólogo adiciona à essa etnografia uma história de longa duração sobre as percepções e atitudes em relação à caça, abordando a filosofia, sociologia e política da caça na França e na Europa ao longo da era moderna. Ao fim, emerge uma distinção elucidativa entre tratamentos dispensados aos animal e seus fundamentos cosmopolíticos, assim como um caracterização dos alicerces da nossa atual crise ecológica.
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: caça
  topic: keywords
subject: humanos e animais
  topic: keywords
subject: crise ecológica
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creator: Fabiano Campelo Bechelany
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-14
publication date: 2025-07-14
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.227910

Multispecies ethnography in the mayan máasewaalo'ob solar sites: care practices and more-than-human worlds
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description: This article explores care practices between mayan máasewáalo’ob women and the animals that inhabit the solares in Chancah Derrepente, Quintana Roo, Mexico, based on ethnographic work carried out since 2016. It analyzes how care configures spatial relations, commensality, and shared labor. It highlights the central role of women in the maintenance and transformation of solares, where cultural norms and female bodily characteristics condition the activities assigned to each gender. The research addresses five types of links between people and animals: protection and hunting, appreciation and entertainment, respect and reverence, feeding and distancing. The article makes visible the agency of animals in each of these relationships, questioning the limits of care and notions of human possession, as well as the categories of domestic and wild. It also explores the relationship between gender, health, mobility, and multispecies care, challenging anthropocentric perspectives and opening new lines of analysis.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: care
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subject: gender
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subject: multispecies
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subject: maya máasewáal
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subject: animals
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creator: Anaid Karla Ortíz Becerril
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-23
publication date: 2025-10-23
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.227720

No Single Reason to Move: Mobility Decision-Making among Syrians and Palestinian Familiesin Brazil
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description: Since 2011, over six million people have left Syria. While numerous studies address this displacement, few specifically investigate family migration decision-making. This article contributes to this knowledge gap by focusing on the journeys of two families. Through analysing migration decision-making, I argue that there is no single reason to move; rather, mobility must be understood within the broader economic, political, and cultural dynamics. The study is based on an ethnography conducted between 2016 and 2020 in São Paulo, Brazil. The data reveals the fears, struggles, aspirations, and hopes involved in reaching a new destination and how social markers and structural contexts shape families’ journeys.
subject: Special Issue Producing Regimes of Asylum in Brazil and Italy
  topic: section
subject: Decision-making
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subject: ,Syrian conflict
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subject: Families
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subject: Brazil
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subject: Refugee
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subject: Mobility
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creator: Mirian Alves de Souza
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-02
publication date: 2025-12-02
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.227369

The "work of emotion" in navigating im-mobility experienced by migrants and asylum seekers
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description: Still little explored, the condition of existential im-mobility experienced by refugees and asylum seekers within and outside the so-called reception system is the main argument of this article. Looking at the “work of emotions” (Hochschild, 1979, Hollan, 1992), the article investigates how the im-mobility experienced by migrants can be ‘navigated’ through different emotions. The theoretical analysis of the im-mobility of refugees and migrants is deepened and reinterpreted in light of ethnographic data and results collected among refugees and migrants living in northern and southern Italy, both within and outside the reception system.
subject: Special Issue Producing Regimes of Asylum in Brazil and Italy
  topic: section
subject: Emotions
  topic: keywords
subject: Refugees
  topic: keywords
subject: Asylum Seekers
  topic: keywords
subject: Im-mobility
  topic: keywords
subject: Italy
  topic: keywords
creator: Giuliana Sanò
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-02
publication date: 2025-12-02
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.227134

Gazes and agencies: an anthropological approach to experimental films
type: item
description: Review of the book Expanded visions – a new anthropology of the moving image, by Arnd Schneider (Routledge, 2021).
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: visual anthropology
  topic: keywords
subject: ethnographic film
  topic: keywords
subject: art
  topic: keywords
creator: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-11-28
publication date: 2024-11-28
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.227122

Effluvia of gamonalism: the resilience of the symbolic worldof the hacienda in the Andes of Ecuador
type: item
description: This text is exploratory based on the experience of three decades of research in the Andes of Ecuador. It explores the presence of a series of symbolic elements of the world known as "gamonalismo" decades after the agrarian reform and the disappearance of the latifundism that sustained it. The argument of the text is that this ancient and long-lived regime of exploitation, insofar as it constituted a hegemonic system of power, generated habits and cognitive structures that were resignified in the post-reformist world that was constituted later. All this is reflected in the ways of understanding hierarchies of power, in the ways in which conflicts between communities are conveyed, and even in the redefinition of ancient lineages of power within the Kichwa world. The article defines the structuring features of what I denominate as the "hacienda cultural matrix".
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Andes
  topic: keywords
subject: latifundism
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subject: agrarian reform
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subject: peasantry
  topic: keywords
subject: Ecuador
  topic: keywords
creator: Víctor Bretón Solo de Zaldívar
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-24
publication date: 2025-11-24
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.226397

Listen to the elements: the ethno-metaphysical proposal in The East of Dreams
type: item
description: Resenha do livro A leste dos sonhos: respostas even às crises sistêmicas de Nastassja Martin.
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Nastassja Martin
  topic: keywords
subject: ethno-metaphysics
  topic: keywords
subject: Even's cosmology
  topic: keywords
creator: Gustavo Guedes Brigante
creator: Francisco Jadson Silva Maia
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-07-14
publication date: 2025-07-14
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.223774

Weaponizing Near Eastern archaeology: violence, amnesia and the ‘cultural heritage experts’ − then, now and suggestions for a different future
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description: Cultural heritage management in the conflict zones of the Middle East in the 21st century intersects with long-standing western hegemonic policies in the region, in continuity with its role as a political instrument in colonial interventions since the era of European empires. That this continues to be so has so far remained largely invisible not only in the public sphere but also within political, historical and sociological studies on colonialism. Instead, in the popular domain archaeology is often portrayed in a positive light, as an inherently innocuous but lofty pursuit in times of conflict, dedicated to the protection of (the tangible) cultural heritage. Such portrayals and perceptions of archaeology and ‘Heritage Studies’ overlook the context in which these fields of study operate and the covert aims that they are often made to serve. The present article details how the disciplinary evolution of academic fields related to cultural heritage often contributes to the very weaponization of the latter, through either a disciplinary-inflected, feigned indifference to politics or the committed embeddedness with military structures, which perpetuates imperialistic geopolitics akin to those of foregone centuries.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: ‘Heritage Studies’
  topic: keywords
subject: imperialism
  topic: keywords
subject: war
  topic: keywords
subject: monuments
  topic: keywords
subject: neo-liberalism
  topic: keywords
subject: ethics
  topic: keywords
creator: Eleftheria Pappa
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-10-23
publication date: 2025-10-23
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.223272

Experimentando com documentos
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: etnografia de documentos
  topic: keywords
subject: documentos
  topic: keywords
subject: documentos burocráticos
  topic: keywords
creator: Bruna Potechi
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-06-28
publication date: 2024-06-28
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.2022.222953

The Right to International Protection in the Face of Double Standards and the Dark Side of Group Logic: Anthropological Reflections
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description: This paper offers a critical reflection on the use of group logic in the recognition of international protection, starting from the differentiated treatment given to Ukrainian citizens following the outbreak of the conflict in 2022. The reflections aim to uncover the normative and political rationale behind management tools. In fact, the legal categories within the protection procedure, built on a group logic such as nationality, present an ambiguity that deserves to be critically examined: on one hand, they have become instruments of protection, but on the other, they have exacerbated the labeling process, making them exclusionary and sources of fundamental rights violations. Moreover, the proliferation of categorical distinctions fails to embrace the complexity that characterizes contemporary migration flows and, instead, becomes a dysfunctional mechanism, entangled in the problematic integration between the universal-individual logic of vulnerability and that of the group
subject: Special Issue Producing Regimes of Asylum in Brazil and Italy
  topic: section
subject: Group logic
  topic: keywords
subject: international protection
  topic: keywords
subject: human hierarchies
  topic: keywords
subject: whiteness
  topic: keywords
subject: legal anthropology
  topic: keywords
creator: Stefania Spada
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-02
publication date: 2025-12-02
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.222936

The humanitarian as capital accumulation: from mobility constraints to housing issues
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description: The article explore the complex dynamics about migration in Italy. It is the outcome of 15-years-long fieldwork among Eritreans and Ethiopians in Italy, Sweden, Sudan and Ethiopia itself. The main focus of the article is about the value extraction connected to the Humanitarian management of the moving bodies. The article fall in that debate that try to shed light on the inner connection between capitalism, nation-state and Humanitarian, by going beyond the opposition humanitarism/securitarism.
subject: Special Issue Producing Regimes of Asylum in Brazil and Italy
  topic: section
subject: Humanitarism
  topic: keywords
subject: migration
  topic: keywords
subject: refugee
  topic: keywords
subject: capitalism
  topic: keywords
subject: value extraction
  topic: keywords
creator: Osvaldo Costantini
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-02
publication date: 2025-12-02
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.222915

Solidarities in Network and Networks of Solidarity: Humanitarian Reception and Housing Policy in an Urban Occupation of Palestinian Refugees in São Paulo
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description: In this article, I describe the genealogy of the networks of relationships and events that led the Terra Livre housing movement and the pro-Palestinian Mop@t movement to create an intercultural urban occupation in São Paulo. These networks consist of actors, causes, and territories that become denser and expand through coalitions and events of high political and social impact. The Leila Khaled occupation became possible through the meeting of actors who constituted networks and created a space for cohabitation for Brazilian families, Palestinian families, and social movements. The building, once occupied by these movements, became a laboratory for NGOs, public figures and other social movements and political collectives.
subject: Special Issue Producing Regimes of Asylum in Brazil and Italy
  topic: section
subject: social movements
  topic: keywords
subject: networks
  topic: keywords
subject: Palestinian refuge
  topic: keywords
subject: Syrian conflict
  topic: keywords
subject: housing
  topic: keywords
subject: humanitarianism
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creator: Helena Manfrinato
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-12-02
publication date: 2025-12-02
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.222911

The multiple existences of glyphoste: an ethnopgrahy of the agri-food industries by following a poison
type: item
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: Glifosato
  topic: keywords
subject: agronegócios
  topic: keywords
subject: agrotóxicos
  topic: keywords
subject: ciência
  topic: keywords
subject: plantation
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creator: Fábio Zuker
creator: Jéssica Ferreira Cardoso
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-03-26
publication date: 2025-03-26
starting page: e222607
ending page: e222607
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.222607

Reler Malinowski pela primeira vez: revisitando um clássico
type: item
description: Resenha do livro TONIOL, Rodrigo; FLEISCHER, Soraya (orgs.). E quando a limonada antropológica azeda? Porto Alegre, Zouk, 2023, 195p.
subject: Reviews
  topic: section
subject: E quando a limonada antropológica azeda
  topic: keywords
subject: Malinowski
  topic: keywords
subject: Argonautas do Pacífico Ocidental
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creator: João Balieiro Bardy
rights: Copyright (c) 2025 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2025-11-24
publication date: 2025-11-24
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.222589

Nationalism, musealization and (de)coloniality in Barbados: some preliminary considerations on sexual and gender diversity amongst indigestible legacies ans false paradoxes
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description: Since 2019, the National Museum of Barbados has been presenting some temporary exhibitions that address the importance of social movements in promoting respect for sexual and gender diversity. This article aims to outline a reflection on the relations between the formation of national states, the effects of colonialism, the institution of heteronormativity and, finally, the recent visibility of sexual and gender diversity, based on the case of Barbados and its National Museum.
subject: Articles
  topic: section
subject: Sexuality
  topic: keywords
subject: Museums
  topic: keywords
subject: Colonialism
  topic: keywords
subject: Nationalism
  topic: keywords
subject: Barbados
  topic: keywords
creator: Fabiano Souza Gontijo
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-06-28
publication date: 2024-06-28
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.2022.213947

Race and color in contemporary Brazil, political opportunity and historical tendency
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description: In this article, I present the data published by IBGE on the color and race/color of the Brazilian population in the period from 1872 to 2022 to examine the historical trends in the growth of white, parda and black racial groups. Three trends are observed. The first, between the end of the 19th century and the 1960s, a whitening process; the second, from the last census date until the last decade of the 20th century, is the continuous growth of the parda population to the detriment of both the white and black populations; the third, which began in 1991, is the gradual growth of the black and parda population and the constant decline of the white population. My argument is that these trends are mainly due to movements of racial reclassification of the population, therefore more to ideological factors – the way in which the Brazilian nation is preponderantly defined in each period – and less to demographic factors, or public policy incentives, like those that have benefited black and brown people since the present century.
subject: Debate raça e cor no brasil contemporâneo, oportunismo político e tendência histórica
  topic: section
subject: Race
  topic: keywords
subject: color
  topic: keywords
subject: Brazil
  topic: keywords
subject: racial reclassification
  topic: keywords
subject: censuses
  topic: keywords
creator: Antônio Sergio Alfredo Guimarães
rights: Copyright (c) 2024 Revista de Antropologia https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
date: 2024-11-28
publication date: 2024-11-28
doi: 10.11606/1678-9857.ra.221938