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k07 – O Património Cultural no Alentejo, nos novos anos 20: que desafios, incertezas e resistências?

apantropologia — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 20:00:03 +0000

Coordenação: Ema Pires (IHC-UÉ e UFG, Brasil), Jorge Croce Rivera (CHAIA-UÉ), Marina Pignatelli (ISCSP-ULisboa)

Participantes da Mesa: Carlos Pedro (DRC Alentejo), João Matias (Casa Museu do Cante- CMS), Paulo Lima (Investigador independente), Susana Bilou Russo (Do Imaginário – Ass. Cultural e CMÉ), Teresa Fernandes (ECT-UÉ)

Convidados especiais: Ana Paula Amendoeira (DRC Alentejo), Clara Bertrand Cabral (Unesco- MNE), Clara Saraiva (APA e ICS), Filipe Themudo Barata (UÉvora), Florival Baiôa (Movimento Beja Merece +), Hugo Guerreiro e Isabel Borda d´Água (CMEstremoz), José Rodrigues dos Santos (CIDEHUS) , Luis Ferro (Grupo Pró-Évora), Pedro Prista (Iscte-IUL), Rita Jerónimo (DGPC), Rui Arimateia (CMÉvora) e Teresa Albino (DGPC).

O Património Cultural no Alentejo, nos novos anos 20: que desafios, incertezas e resistências?

APA – UÉvora – 6 de Setembro 2022, 16h30 – 18h30

Abstract:

A realização do 8º Congresso da APA foi tida como uma boa ocasião para debater o Património Cultural no Alentejo. Numa década que se inicia com uma pandemia mundial, uma guerra na Europa e uma seca nacional, a realização de uma Mesa Redonda sobre este tema revela-se especialmente pertinente e reunirá especialistas da área da antropologia para o debater de modo abrangente. Serão focados de modo reflexivo e baseado em experiências e perspetivas de profissionais e investigadores da área do Património Cultural Alentejano, diversos assuntos com ele relacionados, nomeadamente, os desafios e incertezas que enfrentam, a (in)visibilidade dos antropólogos no trabalho com o Património Cultural, ou os constrangimentos que enfrentam estes profissionais nos processos de patrimonialização. Sendo uma iniciativa aberta à comunidade, todos/as serão bem-vindos/as para nela participarem de forma ativa e construtiva.

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k06 – Restituições no panorama português

officina.noctua — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:17:27 +0000

Maria Cardeira da Silva is Associate Professor at NOVA FCSH and researcher at CRIA. She has developed work in Arab and Islamic contexts, but also in Portugal, doing research on Islam, Gender, Heritage and Tourism.
She has developed her interest and research on heritage of Portuguese origin within the two editions of the Project Castelos a Bombordo (FCT 2006-2012) which she coordinated and, as Senior Researcher of the ERC Project CAPSAHARA (2017-2021) she analysed, besides gender and feminism issues, the processes of patrimonialization and spontaneous museums in the desert of Mauritania.
She is a member of the UNESCO Intangible Heritage working group in Portugal.
Recently she published "Sustainable emotions: the front and backstages of slavery in Gorée Island. Etnográfica. Volume 25 :2. p. 437-464.

She was Researcher and Curator of the Exhibitions:
*Fora do Padrão: Lembranças da Exposição de 1940. CRIA /Padrão dos Descobrimentos/EGEAC/FCSH-UNL, 2016.
*Are You a Tourist. CRIA /Padrão dos Descobrimentos/EGEAC/FCSH-UNL, Lisboa, 12 de Julho a 15 de Dezembro 2019.
*Enchanted Places, Heritage Spaces2020, CRIA/ National Museum of Ethnology, still on exhibition, as part of the HERA HERILIGION Project in which she participated with research on Mértola.

Heritage: appropriation, reparation and restitution

Maria Cardeira da Silva (coord.),
Manuela Ribeiro Sanches, Paulo Costa, Rosa Melo

Abstract:

Critical thinking on heritage, as well as some activist movements, have already highlighted the principle of appropriation that underlies it. In this round-table we want, however, to focus in a concrete and operational way around three questions:

1) Will we be able to find arguments and answers to the forms of appropriation that heritage generates without turning to its own assumptions that are often based on essentialist and reified ideas of culture, community and nation?

2) What effective compensatory solutions can be found, in the Portuguese case, for the demands of repair and/or restitution?

3) Should this discussion focus exclusively on a post-colonial and international framework, or should it lead us to think jointly about other asymmetries and possible forms of democratization and possible redistribution of heritage?

Manuela Ribeiro Sanches is a retired professor from the Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa. Her interest in travel literature led her to broaden her area of research to the field of the history of anthropology, in articulation with cultural studies, from a post-colonial perspective, having dedicated herself to the study of the effects and repercussions, to the present day, of the processes of (de)colonisation at the cultural and political level. She organized the volumes Deslocalizar a Europa. Antropologia, Arte, Literatura e História na pós-colonialidade e Portugal não é um país pequeno. Contar o ”Império” na pós-colonialidade, Livros Cotovia), Malhas que os impérios tecem – Textos anticoloniais, contextos pós-coloniais(Edições 70), among others. More recently she has published an annotated translation of Frantz Fanon's Escritos políticos e psiquiátricos (Lisbon, Book Builders 2021).

Paulo Ferreira da Costa, anthropologist, is Director of the National Museum of Ethnology since 2015. At the General Administration of Cultural Heritage he was Head of the Immovable, Movable and Intangible Heritage Division (2012-2014). He was Director of the Immaterial Heritage Department of the Institute of Museums and Conservation (2007-2012) and Director of Inventory Services of the Portuguese Institute of Museums (2002-2007). He worked at the National Museum of Ethnology between 1993 and 2001.

Rosa Melo is Angolan, PhD in Anthropology by the Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE). She has developed post-doctoral projects at the Instituto de Investigação Científica e Tropical (IICT), in Lisbon, and at Indiana University (USA). Her research focus is the South of Angola. She works on questions of identity, namely ethnic, power and gender identity among the Handa. She is concerned with issues of emotions, traditional medicine and Handa ethno-pharmacology, as well as the implications of the post-independence war in mortuary and mourning practices. Traditional Power in Angola constitutes another of her research interests. She has taught at different institutions of Higher Education in Angola and was, for several years, National Director of Communities and Institutions of Traditional Power, first at the Ministry of Culture and then at the Ministry of Culture, Tourism and Environment.

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k05 – Do que falamos quando falamos de antropologia?

officina.noctua — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 18:07:27 +0000

Ema Pires Departamento de Sociologia, Universidade de Évora, Portugal; Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brasil

Francisco Curate has a degree in Anthropology, a Master in Human Evolution and a PhD in Biological Anthropology, is a researcher at Centro de Investigação em Antropologia e Saúde (CIAS) of the Department of Life Sciences of the Faculty of Sciences and Technology of Universidade de Coimbra, and a visiting professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar. He is the author of several papers in the areas of bioarchaeology, palaeopathology and forensic anthropology, and has investigated skeletal health, bone mass loss and traumatic injuries in archaeological samples and reference osteological collections. Human skeletal variability as a research topic is a natural offshoot of his interest in bone health, and includes developing methods for the estimation of biological sex and age at death through innovative experiments that take advantage of the technological potential of online applications, machine-learning and medical imaging.

What do we talk about when we talk about anthropology? Encounters with the otherness in us

Ema Pires
and Francisco Curate

Abstract:

A certain character of Camilo Castelo-Branco states, not without some bluntness, that "the "know thyself" of the ancient philosopher is nonsense", and concludes his opinion by questioning: "Who does know oneself?". It is from this question that we propose this dialogue between social anthropology and biological anthropology, a kind of epistemological deconfinement which, far from being a scientific exercise, will risk promoting the knowledge of the Other in us. As is logical to suppose, this essay in conversation mode does not represent all people who do anthropology (biological, social, cultural, whatever), but only one (social) anthropologist and one (biological) anthropologist. It is therefore a personal debate, perhaps not generalisable beyond our own perspectives and experiences. Even so, mutual ignorance is an error that has been going on for too long, and from now on our way of erring could and should be different. And if it is undeniable that each province of anthropological knowledge has its own terrain, more or less delimited, let this not limit its access to the wasteland, to the tempting common ethical, theoretical and methodological field. All human questions are entangled together in a trellis that cannot be deciphered by obsolete disciplinary enclosures. The only possibility left is the recovery of the possible hybridism, of an anthropology, polyphonic and fragmented, whose body has an undefined profile. Anthropology may contradict itself and, like Whitman, contain multitudes.

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k04 – E se o Passado Teimar em Não Bastar?

officina.noctua — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:53:18 +0000

Ana Rita Alves (CES-UC) is an anthropologist and PhD student at the Centre for Social Studies (CES-UC). She was a grantee of the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and, more recently, one of the 2020-2021 Black Studies Dissertation Scholar at the University of California Santa Barbara. Her work focuses on the critical analysis of the intersection between institutional racism, territory and housing, materialising so far in a number of publications, in particular the book Quando Ninguém Podia Ficar: Racismo, Habitação e Território (Tigre de Papel, 2021), papers and collaborations in several research projects. She is co-founder of “CHÃO - Laboratory of Urban Ethnography” which, together with the Association of Social Development of Vale de Chícharos, has developed a social cartography and literacy classes and Portuguese as a non-native language in the neighbourhood of Jamaika. It has collaborated, in solidarity, with collectives and residents of self-produced and re-housing neighbourhoods, repositories par excellence of institutional violence.

What if the Past Stubbornly Isn't Enough? Ghosts, Racism and the Production of Knowledge

Ana Rita Alves (coord.),
Cayetano Fernández, Cristina Roldão, Miguel Vale de Almeida

Abstract:

One hundred years ago, the Harlem Renaissance - one of the most important African-American cultural movements of the 20th century - was born in New York, paradigmatically illustrating the urgency to create spaces for black life in the face of death policies. In fact, when racism has been historically configured as the production and exploitation of the vulnerability of black, indigenous or Roma/Gypsy populations to premature death (Gilmore, 2007), resistance is an essential condition of existence, from the United States to Brazil, from France to Portugal. However, both the terms of racial oppression and its contestation have been vehemently depoliticised and silenced through the maintenance of a system of epistemic privilege, of a project of knowledge (Silva, 2007) that sustains and authorises racial violence - legal or extralegal - as a form of governmentality. It is in this way that, on a daily basis, racial terror beats down on roofs and bodies in Amadora or in Santo Aleixo da Restauração or on imprisoned hearts that stop beating in Tires or in Linhó. Although racial violence is a grammar of contemporary democracies and a number of academic works focus on spaces, lives and institutions deeply marked by racial capitalism, race as a lens of analysis or racism as a process of structural and institutional management have been largely absent from the academic debate in Portugal. To this absence we can add the obliteration of the production of non-white intellectuals, such as W. E. B. Du Bois, C. L. R. James or Faye Harrison, from the canon of disciplines like sociology, history or anthropology. This Conversa a Sul will seek - in dialogue with the knowledge produced in the academic and political activist space - to contribute to challenging the terms of the Eurocentric discussion guided by whiteness as a system of epistemic privilege and debating its consequences for the daily lives of Roma/Gypsy, black and migrant populations.

Cayetano Fernández is a researcher at Centro de Estudos Sociais (CES), currently integrated in the POLITICS project - The politics of anti-racism in Europe and Latin America: production of knowledge, decision-making and collective struggles, particularly in the research line "Academic Cultures and State Universities: the study of racism and colonialism in higher education". In collaboration with the University of Granada (Spain) and other entities, he has worked on several researches related to the Roma in different fields, such as the access to education of the Romani community, the migration process of the Roma from Eastern Europe to Western Europe, the historical role of the Romanies involved in the Spanish Civil War, and the contemporary status of the Romani language as a constructor of political identity among Spanish Roma. He is currently enrolled in the PhD programme "Human Rights in Contemporary Societies" at the University of Coimbra and his research topic focuses on racism in Academia, in particular anti-gypsyism produced in the field of the so-called Romani Studies. Previously, as a research fellow, he conducted research at the department of Native American Studies at Montana State University (USA) and as a PhD fellow at the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology of Central European University (Hungary). Currently, he is part of the decolonial organisation Romani Kale Amenge, a project that aims to link the production of knowledge about the anti-racist Roma struggle and political intervention.

Cristina Roldão (Sociologist, ESE-EPS and ISCTE - IUL) | Sociologist, visiting professor at ESE-IPS and researcher at CIES-IUL. Social inequalities in school are her main area of research, with particular focus on the processes of exclusion and institutional racism that affect Afro-Brazilians in Portuguese society. Noteworthy are the coordination of the cycle of debates and training course Roteiro para uma Educação Antirracista (2019), the participation in the project “Caminhos escolares de jovens africanos (PALOP) que acedem ao ensino superior” (2015) and the participation in the “Working Group for Ethnic-Racial Issues - Censuses 2021” (2018/19). In addition to scientific production in these fields, she has participated in the wider public debate on racism and ethno-racial inequalities in school and Portuguese society.

Miguel Vale de Almeida (Anthropologist, CRIA and ISCTE-IUL) | PhD in Anthropology, is a full professor at ISCTE-IUL and a researcher at CRIA, where he managed, until 2015, the journal Etnográfica. His research with fieldwork in Portugal, Brazil, Spain and Israel/Palestine has focused on issues of gender and sexuality, as well as ethnicity, race and post-colonialism. He has published several books in Portugal and abroad, including Senhores de Si: Uma Interpretação Antropológica da Masculinidade, Um Mar da Cor da Terra: Raça, Cultura e Política da Identidade, Outros Destinos: Ensaios de Antropologia e Cidadania, A Chave do Armário. Homossexualidade, casamento, família e o mais recente Aliyah. Estado e Subjetividade entre Judeus Brasileiros em Israel/Palestina. As well as being a columnist and commentator, he has been an activist for LGBT rights and was elected a Member of Parliament in 2009, and was involved in the approval of equal marriage.

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k03 – Reflexões em torno de ‘Sul/Norte’ em Portugal

officina.noctua — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 17:42:14 +0000

Matança de porco, Seixas – Vinhais 1976 – Brian O’Neill à direita

Brian Juan O´Neill
Instituto Universitário de Lisboa – ISCTE-IUL
Senior Researcher at CRIA (Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia)
Co-founder of CEAS (Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social) in 1986
Retired Full Professor, Anthropology Department

Brian Juan O’Neill is an anthropologist with a literary background, trained at Columbia, Essex, and the London School of Economics, migrating to Portugal in 1982. Collaborating with the journal Critique of Anthropology in its early years, a sharply critical spirit has always infused his research, spanning three prolonged fieldwork stints: folktales in Spain (Galicia 1973/1975), Mediterranean ethnography in Portugal (Trás-os-Montes 1976-78), and Portuguese Creole communities in Southeast Asia (Malaysia 1994-2009). Main publications include: Proprietários, Lavradores, e Jornaleiras: Desigualdade Social numa Aldeia Transmontana 1870-1978 Dom Quixote 1984 (Social Inequality in a Portuguese Hamlet Cambridge University Press 2009 online [1987]), Lugares de Aqui (org. com Joaquim Pais de Brito) Etnográfica Press 2020 online [1991], e Antropologia Social – Sociedades Complexas Universidade Aberta 2006.
Later work focused on biographical life-histories, and Eurásia as a category within the interdisciplinary area of ‘global history’. His recent work deconstructs the dubious notion that the bairro português in Malacca is indeed ‘Portuguese’ at all, but rather a phantasmagoric relic projected backwards in time during the final decades of the Estado Novo. Visitors may inhale some of the antique kitsch atmosphere that still pervades this Eurasian neighbourhood today, two decades after the lagging 1999 demise of the third Portuguese Empire.

Caianca preparations for the festa include the resident anthropologist, Denise, participating

Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga
Professora Emérita
Departamento de Arquitetura e Lyle Center for Regenerative Studies
California State Polytechnic University
Pomona, CA
Co-fundadora da rede Space and Place Network, AAA

Ph.D. (UC Riverside 1979), is trained as a sociocultural anthropologist whose teaching in architecture has focused on the study of humans and their relations with natural and built environments. Her research focuses on vernacular and contemporary architecture, historic preservation, and domestic resource consumption. She has conducted research in rural southern Portugal examining the mutually reinforcing relations people establish with their home environments and natural landscapes. Building a new house or remodeling an old one embodies the imaginary of a new identity and lifestyle. In the southern Californian communities of Pasadena, Alhambra, Monrovia, Ontario and Riverside she has similarly investigated residents’ design decisions in remodeling their older homes and how their choices become part of their identity construction. She publishes in anthropology, co-editing House Life: Space, Place and Family in Europe (Berg 1999) and The Anthropology of Space and Place (Blackwell 2003). She is also the author of Protecting Suburban America Gentrification, Advocacy and the Historic Imaginary (Bloomsbury 2016).

Reflections on South/North in Portugal

Brian O’Neill
and Denise Lawrence-Zúñiga

Abstract:

This duet proposes to orchestrate some musical reminiscences of the atmosphere and vicissitudes that characterized our anthropological fieldwork in the South and North of Portugal in the mid-1970s. Avoiding a globalistic ‘North/South’ approach following any imperialistic Reconquest downward direction, we start in the South and move North. Our symphonic reflections develop in four movements. The first tune asks: WHY PORTUGAL? Lusitanian landscapes at the time were profoundly mysterious, an incognito understudied by outsiders, with exceptions such as Callier-Boisvert, Riegelhaupt, and Willems. And – pardon the term – the country was exotic. Even the language seemed romantic. Whether based on latifúndia or minifúndia, the two geographic extremes of the country invited attention. A second tune plays to another beat: WHEN DID WE ARRIVE? The 1974 Carnation Revolution provided a yet more intense reason for our having chosen Portugal as a fieldwork site. How could one situate the April 25th schism within the youthful Anglo-American-French anthropology of the so-called ‘Mediterranean’? Had 1968 – with its student protests in Berkeley, Columbia, and Paris – not also influenced us? Denise in 1975, and Brian in 1976, with colleagues Jorge Gaspar and Benjamim Pereira, immersed themselves in maps. A second immersion then plunged them into the Alentejo and Trás-os-Montes. Our third tune plays a regional melody: SOUTH/NORTHInitial readings included Jorge Dias, Silva Picão, Veiga de Oliveira, and Cutileiro (whose 1971 monograph inspired both of us). Did we join the orchestra of folklore, material culture, festivals, and customs? Our ethnographies went elsewhere, including to the worlds of houses (Denise), bastards (Brian), and pig-slaughters (Denise and Brian). And also: we queried how the Revolution was so differentially affecting ‘our’ fieldwork sites. How to begin disentangling the differences between the South and the North of Portugal? A fourth and final tune: LATER RESEARCH AND EXPERIENCES. What melodies followed the fieldwork stints? How was Portugal incorporated within American anthropology? What, indeed, was ‘European Anthropology’ at all in the 1980s and 1990s? What links were forged with our later work, on Spain and California, as well as on Malacca and the Creole ruins of the third Portuguese Empire? Why was Portugal so receptive to our contributions, from the 1970s right up to today? Was Edward Bruner correct? Need we separate – in almost bipolar fashion – the anthropologist’s objective-cum-scientific leanings from her/his subjective-cum-experiential? We hope that similar reflexive thinking on further international connections is stimulated by these mellifluous allegretto tunes.

Figura 1 View of Seixas 19

Figura 3- Castle-and-Church-–-the-Classic-Profile-of-the-Alentejan-Town

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k02 – Transformações no Alentejo

officina.noctua — Sun, 12 Jun 2022 16:58:38 +0000

Cristiana Bastos (PhD CUNY 1996) is an anthropologist and her work intersects the disciplines of anthropology, history and social studies of science, technology and medicine. She is a permanent researcher at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais (ICS-UL) and has taught at other units of Universidade de Lisboa, ISCTE, Universidade de Coimbra, Brown, Universidade de Massachusetts, UNICAMP, UERJ, etc. She has worked on issues of population dynamics, transnational mobilities, colonial biopolitics, medicine and empire, social history of health and well-being, with field and archival research in Portugal, Brazil, the United States and Goa. She is currently coordinating the project The Colour of Labour – the racialized lives of migrants (ERC AdG 695573), where she is directly involved in research on Guyana/Suriname, Hawaii, New England and Angola. Her work is available at https://cristianabastos.org/ , http://colour.ics.ulisboa.pt/ , https://lisboa.academia.edu/CBastos and other public platforms.

O Alentejo no Plantationoceno: longa duração e transformações recentes na paisagem física e social

Cristiana Bastos (coord.),
Catarina Barata, André Paxiuta e Pedro Prista

Abstract:

In this session we will put into dialogue several researchers who in recent years have witnessed, analysed, studied and documented the transformations in the physical and human landscape of the Alentejo. In addition to describing the materiality of these transformations - which involve new uses of land and water, of investments and credits, of production increments at scale such as greenhouses and new species, and, of greater interest to anthropology, of demographic and ethnic reconfiguration consequent to new migrant labour flows - we propose to bring into discussion some of the conceptual developments of "plantation" studies and to dialogue with the scenario of the "plantationoscene." The discussion is intended to be participatory and locally anchored, since the Alentejo is by excellency the place where the persistence of plantation/latifundia/monoculture and the rapid transformation of the physical and social environment are combined.

Catarina Barata is a PhD student in Anthropology at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa (ICS-UL), with a thesis on perspectives, discourses and representations about experiences of obstetric violence. Resident in Odemira since 2011, she has closely followed the profound changes in the territory and worked, in the region, on issues of local heritage, participatory art projects and migrations. She was part of the reflection group on the creation of the Odemira Museum (2012-13), coordinated by Pedro Prista, and is the author of the article on anthropological studies about the region ("Anthropology", in the volume Atas do Colóquio Ignorância e Esquecimento, 2016). She is a board member of Terra Batida Association (based in Odemira) and the Portuguese Association for Women's Rights in Pregnancy and Childbirth (APDMGP).

André Paxiuta is a documentary photographer and holds a PhD in Geography from the Universidade de Lisboa. He develops visual narratives focusing on the human condition, social confrontations, migration and public health, their interdependencies with the natural world and their mutations in space and time. He is the author of the book Oil Dorado.

Pedro Prista (b. Lisbon 1955). He attended the Faculty of Law between 1972 and 1976 and graduated in Social Sciences and Humanities at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 1979. In 1982 he completed his DEA in Ethnology at the University of Nice and, since 1984, he has been a lecturer at the Department of Anthropology of ISCTE, where he obtained his doctorate in 1994 with a thesis on morphologies and social processes in the Alto Barrocal Algarvio.
His activity as a researcher began with the team at the Museu de Etnologia in the 1970s and has focused on Portuguese society and its changes, such as emigration, tourism or the impacts of climate change and the anthropological problems they involve. He has worked mainly in the south of the country and on Ethnological Heritage, its legacies and cultural policies, with an emphasis on vernacular architecture and museums.
In 2013 he coordinated the colloquium "Ignorância e Esquecimento" and the publication of the “Actas do Colóquio Ignorância e Esquecimento” (Câmara Municipal de Odemira, Odemira).
In 2014 he published "“Terra, Palha, Cal. Ensaios de antropologia sobre materiais de construção vernacular em Portugal” (Argumentum, Lisboa).
He is an integrated researcher at CRIA-IUL and an associate researcher at ICS-UL.

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k01 – A antropologia do possível

officina.noctua — Sat, 11 Jun 2022 10:56:07 +0000

João Pina-Cabral is Senior Research Fellow in Social Anthropology at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais of Universidade de Lisboa and Emeritus Professor in the School of Anthropology, Geography and Environment at the University of Kent (UK). He was co-founder and president of the Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia and of the European Association of Social Anthropologists. He has carried out extensive fieldwork in Portugal, Macau, Mozambique and Bahia. Principal works: Filhos de Adão, Filhas de Eva (trad. port., D. Quixote 1989), Os contextos da antropologia (Difel 1991), Aromas de Urze de Lama (2ª ed, ICS 2008), Em Terra de Tufões (Instituto Cultural de Macau 1993), O homem na família (ICS 2003), Between China and Europe (Berg 2002), Gente Livre (Terceiro Nome, S. Paulo 2013). His most recent workWorld: An anthropological examination—Chicago, HAU books, 2017) reflects on the conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture and was awarded the Malinowski Prize. He edited with R. Feijó and H. Martins A morte no Portugal contemporâneo (Querco 1984), with J.K. Campbell Europe Observed (Macmilan 1992), with A.P.Lima Elites (Berg 2000), with Fernando Gil O processo da crença (Gradiva 2004), with Clara Carvalho A persistência da história (ICS 2004), with S. M. Viegas Nomes (Almedina 2007), with F. Pine On the margins of religion (Berghahn 2008), with C. Toren The challenge of epistemology (2011), and with G. Bowman After Society (Berghahn 2020).

Research interests:
Person, kinship and family; religion, symbolism and power; ethnicity and the postcolonial condition; ethnographic theory.

Academia.edu: https://kent.academia.edu/JoaoPinaCabral
Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joao_Pina-Cabral/research
University of Kent:
https://tinyurl.com/2p85mrwu
ORCID:
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7180-4407?lang=en
Email preferencial:
pina.cabral@ics.ul.pt

Possible Anthropology

João Pina-Cabral
Instituto de Ciências Sociais
Universidade de Lisboa

Conferência inaugural APA-Évora Setembro 2022

What anthropology might we want to practice? This lecture attempts to account for the conditions of possibility of anthropology as a scientific discipline in the present conjuncture in Portugal, Europe and the world. Confronted with the knowledge that the worst excesses of history are to be repeated and, thus, alerted to the dull rumblings of a possible civilizational apocalypse, anthropologists are moved to recognize the inevitability of their ethnocentrism—that is, the fact that they are an integral part of history on the move. At the same time, when engaging in comparativism, we are led to exercise more and more critically our vocation of de-ethnocentrification. This results from the growing possibility of encompassing the thinking concerning the human condition of the best thinkers of all analytical traditions from all over the world and all times. To this end, the paper argues that there is only one possible way out in order to understand properly the process of diversification that is the constitutive condition of all sociality and all life: the practice of an analytical vision that subordinates essence to existence; that subordinates semiotics to practice; that embraces our human condition in the study of the human condition. In sum, the anthropology that is possible will inevitably be non-Western from an epistemological point of view, and non-Orientalistfrom a methodological point of view. This implies the adoption of more intensive modes of ethnographic practice; modes that embrace head-on its condition as a scientific empirical discipline. In the decade to come, the survival of anthropology as a discipline must remain be deaf to Siren’s song of virtualism and mediatisation, which the universalisation of online communication has made so desirable.

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P115

officina.noctua — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:37:04 +0000

P115

Trabalho, concreto e abstrato: entre utilidade social e valor de mercado.

Coordenador / Coordinator:
Emília Margarida MARQUES
CRIA – ISCTE/IUL
emddm@iscte-iul.pt

Co-coordenador / Co-coordinator
(se aplicável, não obrigatório / if applicable, not mandatory):

Debatedor / Discussant
(se aplicável, não obrigatório / if applicable, not mandatory):
TBA

Língua principal / Main language: Português / Portuguese (PT)

Língua complementar / Complementary language: Inglês / English (EN)

Língua de trabalho preferencial (não exclusiva) /
Prefered working language (not exclusive): Português / Portuguese (PT)

Detalhes do painel na língua principal /
Panel details in main language
Título / Title
Trabalho, concreto e abstrato: entre utilidade social e valor de mercado.

Resumo curto / Short abstract
Tendo em mente a noção compósita de trabalho concreto e trabalho abstrato (Marx), o painel pretende interrogar os modos como a tensão entre o valor social do trabalho e o seu valor mercantil é articulada nas experiências quotidianas de trabalho e e vida.

Resumo longo / Long abstract
A pandemia iluminou nitidamente o trabalho concreto (Marx): exercício das capacidades humanas para responder a necessidades e anseios socialmente definidos. Os aplausos aos trabalhadores da saúde, ou a noção de “trabalhadores essenciais”, sublinham o trabalho como ação sobre o mundo, indispensável à vida individual e social. Mas é também clara a inserção desse mesmo trabalho numa economia política que o enquadra – e abstrai – enquanto produção de valor de troca. Basta ver como a captura mercantil das vacinas contra a Covid-19 vem restringindo o valor de uso do trabalho nelas objetificado.
Pensado com acento empírico nas práticas, experiências, relações e discursos de trabalho (situado este em qualquer ponto dos eixos pago/não pago, formal/informal, in/dependente, precário/permanente, presencial/remoto, em mono/pluriatividade, etc), o painel foca os modos como aquela tensão entre o trabalho concreto e a sua abstração mercantil se traduz no quotidiano vivido e refletido dos trabalhadores.
Que (des)articulações, materiais e discursivas, se observam entre utilidade social e valor mercantil do trabalho e do que produz? Que processos lhes dão forma? Como se relacionam elas com os eixos descritivos acima? Que nos podem ensinar, em antropologia, sobre a diversidade de modos e sentidos de vida no contexto do capitalismo contemporâneo?

Detalhes do painel na língua complementar /
Panel details in complementary language

Título / Title
Concrete and abstract labour: work and workers between social value and market value.

Resumo curto / Short abstract
Keeping in mind the compound notion of concrete and abstract labour (Marx), this panel aims to discuss the tension between the social value of labour and its market value, and the diverse ways it comes to be articulated in the labour experience and beyond.

Resumo longo / Long abstract
The pandemic has clearly illuminated concrete labour (Marx): work as the exercise of human abilities in order to fulfil socially defined needs and wants. People clapping for healthcare staff, or a phrase such as “essential workers”, certainly underline work as a meaningful action indispensable to individual and social life. But this same work is embedded in a political economy that frames – and abstracts – it as the mere production of exchange value; the commodification of Covid-19 vaccines, which curbs the use value of the labour objectified in them, is a case in point.
This panel approaches practices, experiences, relations, and discourses of work (located anywhere along the axes of paid/unpaid, formal/informal, in/dependent, precarious/permanent, on-site/remote, mono/pluriactive, etc.) to focus on the ways the tension between concrete work and its mercantile abstraction impacts the work experience and the workers’ lives.
What material and discursive (de-)articulations between the social usefulness of work and its mercantile value are observed? What processes shape them? How do these processes and (de-)articulations relate to the descriptive axes above? What can we learn from them, in anthropology, about the diversity of ways and meanings of life in the context of contemporary capitalism?

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P114

officina.noctua — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:32:15 +0000

P114

Antropologia das Insurgências e Autonomias.

Coordenador / Coordinator:
Andrey FERREIRA
Prof. Adjunto da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro UFRRJ
andrey2099@hotmail.com

Co-coordenador / Co-coordinator
(se aplicável, não obrigatório / if applicable, not mandatory):
José Vicente MERTZ
Doutorando em Antropologia – ICS/ISCSP – Universidade de Lisboa
vicente.mertz@gmail.com

Debatedor / Discussant
(se aplicável, não obrigatório / if applicable, not mandatory):
Cassio Brancaleone
Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul

Língua principal / Main language: Português / Portuguese (PT)

Língua complementar / Complementary language: Inglês / English (EN)

Língua de trabalho preferencial (não exclusiva) /
Prefered working language (not exclusive): Português / Portuguese (PT)

Detalhes do painel na língua principal /
Panel details in main language
Título / Title
Antropologia das Insurgências e Autonomias.

Resumo curto / Short abstract
Procuramos nesse painel acolher trabalhos que tem como campo de estudo os processos de insurgências que questionam os modelos de expansão neoextrativistas e propostas organizacionais eurocentradas, mobilizando identidades étnicas e culturais, reelaborando significados e construindo autonomias autóctones mais ou menos fora do poder do Estado.

Resumo longo / Long abstract
A expansão do modelo de organização de território sob a forma do Estado nacional não ocorreu de forma pacifica, sendo questionados por diferentes formas de resistências, insurgências e autonomias em diversos espaços e momentos da história. Estes movimentos de resistência, majoritariamente protagonizados por populações indígenas e camponesas, longe de terem ficado restritos ao passado, continuam em pleno século XXI questionando os modelos propostos pelo capital e suas formas de organização política, construindo territórios autônomos fora do poder do Estado em meio a situações de insurgência e contrainsurgência. Dentro deste contexto, se destacam o levante zapatista de 1994 e a revolução de Rojava, no Curdistão Sírio, com ambos processos mobilizando identidades étnicas e culturais, reelaborando significados e servindo como base para novas propostas organizacionais. Além destas experiências, inúmeras lutas e experiências e autogoverno e autonomias indígenas mantém relações de complementariedade, ambiguidade ou antagonismo com as estruturas do Estado nacional, constituindo práticas de “autonomias no Estado” e “contra o Estado”, que devem se tornar objetos de reflexão antropológica. Procuramos nesse painel acolher trabalhos que tem como objeto de estudo estes processos de insurgências e construções de autonomias, que questionam os modelos de expansão neoextrativistas e propostas organizacionais eurocentradas

Detalhes do painel na língua complementar /
Panel details in complementary language

Título / Title
Anthropology of Insurgencies and Autonomies.

Resumo curto / Short abstract

Resumo longo / Long abstract
Departing from visual and sound researches, in this panel we want to evoke the forms of conciliating the analytical properties of words with the experiential cinematic language. In witch ways we can do ethnographic work with cinema and which cinematic languages do we choose? Going beyond the recording of verbal discourses imply finding new – allegorical and metaphorical – ways to edit and to do camera and sound work. MacDougall (2019) has been discussing the ethnographic films necessity to be centered in life as we experience it, defending a modality that evokes the sensorial and corporeal experience allowing for an immersion of the subjects and the filmmaker herself in the film’s world.
In recent observational work the author’s negation, associated with a humility attitude has been questioned as it hides the place of the one who films. In another scope, works as the one’s being developed in the Sensory Ethnographic Lab in Harvard reveal itself close to an experimental cinematographic attitude as the authors search for a kind of flux of life, away from any kind of anthropological agenda. The contemporary ethnographic attitude is even more centered in questions of agenciality using a dialogical and participatory practice that questions the idea of authorship and reality. The collaborative and participatory as well as the ethnofiction perspectives seem to be important tools to go further in representing the imaginary, the complex, hybrid and fantastic realities.

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P113

officina.noctua — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 18:27:59 +0000

P113

Festas e carnavais em tempo de Covid-19. De ausências, transformações e resiliência.
Fiestas y carnavales en tiempos de Covid-19. De ausencias, transformaciones y resiliencias.

Coordenador / Coordinator:
Aitzpea LEIZAOLA
UPV/EHU
aitzpea.leizaola@ehu.eus

Co-coordenador / Co-coordinator
(se aplicável, não obrigatório / if applicable, not mandatory):
Paula GODINHO
U Nova de Lisboa
p.godinho@fcsh.unl.pt

Debatedor / Discussant
(se aplicável, não obrigatório / if applicable, not mandatory):

Língua principal / Main language: Português / Portuguese (PT)

Língua complementar / Complementary language: Espanhol / Spanish (ES)

Língua de trabalho preferencial (não exclusiva) /
Prefered working language (not exclusive): Português / Portuguese (PT)

Detalhes do painel na língua principal /
Panel details in main language
Título / Title
Festas e carnavais em tempo de Covid-19. De ausências, transformações e resiliência.

Resumo curto / Short abstract
No contexto de incerteza e enfraquecimento dos laços sociais por causa da pandemia, elementos e rituais da cultura popular foram reapropriados e reinterpretados. Com base em etnografias da festa em tempos de Covid-19, especialmente do carnaval, este painel convida-nos a refletir sobre o seu potencial como catalisador de resiliência social.

Resumo longo / Long abstract
A festa é por definição uma celebração fora do tempo comum, que estrutura um tempo e um espaço em que as regras da vida quotidiana são transgredidas, em que renovamos a nossa pertença e reconstruímos as nossas identidades de forma cíclica, repetitiva e coletiva. Desde Março de 2020, porém, temos vivido numa época em que as festas foram excluídas, e todas as celebrações públicas foram postas em espera. A pandemia perturbou todos os aspetos da vida social e enfraqueceu consideravelmente os laços sociais. No entanto, a necessidade de criar mecanismos para voltar a ligar o individual e o coletivo tornou-se evidente. Elementos da cultura popular, rituais ou atuações
artísticas que permitiram às pessoas partilhar estes momentos de incerteza com outros foram assim reapropriados e reinterpretados. Frente a sua ausência, as festas têm, a partir daí, encarnado com mais força valores coletivos onde as questões de identidade estão em jogo em diferentes escalas. Com base em etnografias da festa em tempos de
Covid-19, especialmente das festas de Inverno e carnavais, exercícios de imaginação política e resistência onde a crítica social é posta em jogo, este painel convida-nos a refletir sobre estas transformações e o seu potencial como catalisador de resiliência social.

Detalhes do painel na língua complementar /
Panel details in complementary language

Título / Title
Fiestas y carnavales en tiempos de Covid-19. De ausencias, transformaciones y resiliencias.

Resumo curto / Short abstract
La pandemia ha debilitado los vínculos sociales. Elementos de cultura popular como los rituales que permitieron compartir momentos de incertidumbre, han sido reapropiados y reinterpretados. A partir de etnografías de la fiesta en tiempos de Covid-19, especialmente el carnaval, este panel nos invita a reflexionar sobre su potencial como catalizador de la resiliencia social.

Resumo longo / Long abstract
A festa é por definição uma celebração fora do tempo comum, que estrutura um tempo e um espaço em que as regras da vida quotidiana são transgredidas, em que renovamos a nossa pertença e reconstruímos as nossas identidades de forma cíclica, repetitiva e coletiva. Desde Março de 2020, porém, temos vivido numa época em que as festas foram excluídas, e todas as celebrações públicas foram postas em espera. A pandemia perturbou todos os aspetos da vida social e enfraqueceu consideravelmente os laços sociais. No entanto, a necessidade de criar mecanismos para voltar a ligar o individual e o coletivo tornou-se evidente. Elementos da cultura popular, rituais ou atuações artísticas que permitiram às pessoas partilhar estes momentos de incerteza com outros foram assim reapropriados e reinterpretados. Frente a sua ausência, as festas têm, a partir daí, encarnado com mais força valores coletivos onde as questões de identidade estão em jogo em diferentes escalas. Com base em etnografias da festa en tempos de Covid-19, especialmente das festas de Inverno como o carnaval, exercícios de imaginação política onde a crítica social é posta em jogo, este painel convida-nos a refletir sobre estas transformações e o seu potencial como catalisador de resiliência social.

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