VIII Congresso Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia | 8th APA Congress

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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W02

officina.noctua — Tue, 10 May 2022 18:34:48 +0000

WORKSHOP 02

Coordenador | Coordinator
Renan Santiago de Sousa | Escola de Música – Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | holy_renan@yahoo.com.br

Co-coordenador | Co-coordinator
n.e.

Língua principal | Main language

A cosmologia Guarani Mbya nas diferentes artes: música, dança, escultura e gravura

Resumo curto / Short abstract:
Pretende-se apresentar a cultura das(os) Guarani Mbya, povo indígena sul-americano, por meio da arte por elas(es) produzida, com foco na música, dança, escultura e gravura. Para tal, o autor fez imersões na aldeia Sapukai de Bracuhy (Brasil), a fim de aprender diretamente com as(os) nativas(os) sobre suas cultura e cosmovisão.

Resumo longo / Long abstract:
O povo Guarani Mbya, que é nativo de países sul-americanos como Paraguai, Argentina, Brasil e Bolívia, possui língua e cosmologia multifacetadas, que, não obstante, se expressam por meio das diferentes linguagens artísticas que são artefatos culturais produzidas por essa etnia, das quais destacam-se a música, a dança, a escultura e a gravura. Nesse contexto, de maneira didática, o workshop buscará apresentar tal cultura aos presentes por meio da apresentação de músicas nativas (Oreru Nhamandu Tupã; Jaguota Javy and Mãduvi’ju’i), instrumentos musicais indígenas (rawe’i, mbaraka, mbaraka mirim, angua’pu, takua’pu, mimby reta, mimby marae’y), danças (xondaro e tangara), esculturas (vixu ra’angaa) e gravuras (yxy e ipara), da qual as(os) presentes serão convidadas(os) a participar ativamente. A partir de um ponto de vista decolonial, que busca colocar a identidade indígena em lugar de protagonismo, a fim de obter conhecimento para ministrar esse workshop, o proponente (que não é indígena) buscou aprender sobre a cultura e arte Guarani Mbya diretamente com as(os) nativas, na aldeia Sapukai de Bracuhy, localizada em Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro – Brasil, além de ler trabalhos acadêmicos feitos por indígenas Guarani Mbya. Espera-se, que por meio desse workshop, os presentes possam obter mais conhecimento sobre as(os) nativas(os) brasileiras(os).

Língua complementar | Complementary language

The Guarani Mbya’s way of life in different arts: music, dance, sculpture and engraving

Resumo curto / Short abstract:
It is intended to present the culture of the Guarani Mbya, South American indigenous people, through the art produced by them, with a focus on music, dance, sculpture and engraving. To this end, the author went to the Sapukai village of Bracuhy (Brazil), in order to learn directly from the natives about their culture and their way of seeing the world

Resumo longo / Long abstract:
The Guarani Mbya people, who are native to South American countries such as Paraguay, Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia, have a multifaceted language and way of life, which, nevertheless, express themselves through the different artistic languages that are cultural artifacts produced by this ethnicity, of which music, dance, sculpture and engraving stand out. In this context, in a didactic way, the workshop will seek to present this culture to those present through the presentation of native musics (Oreru Nhamandu Tupã; Jaguota Javy and Mãduvi’ju’i), indigenous musical instruments (rawe’i, mbaraka, mbaraka mirim, angua’pu, takua’pu, mimby reta, mimby marae’y), dances (xondaro and tangara), sculptures (vixu ra’angaa) and engravings (yxy and ipara), to which those present will be invited to participate actively. From a decolonial point of view, which seeks to place indigenous identity in place of protagonism, in order to obtain knowledge to deliver this workshop, the proponent (who is not indigenous) sought to learn about Guarani Mbya culture and art directly from the natives, in the Sapukai village of Bracuhy, located in Angra dos Reis, Rio de Janeiro – Brazil, in addition to reading academic works written by Guarani Mbya indigenous people. It is hoped that through this workshop, those present can gain more knowledge about Brazilian natives.

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W01

officina.noctua — Tue, 10 May 2022 18:30:41 +0000

WORKSHOP 01

Coordenador | Coordinator
Colectivo de Professores de Antropologia | Várias instituições de Ensino Superior | epires@uevora.pt

Co-coordenador | Co-coordinator
Paula Godinho | UnL-Nova_FCSH & IHC | p.godinho@fcsh.unl.pt

Língua principal | Main language

Futuros imaginados: recolhas de estudantes de antropologia em 2022

Resumo curto / Short abstract:
Num tempo em que a pandemia introduziu uma crise acrescida do futuro, com uma temporalidade tóxica que parece cancelar ou adiar muitos sonhos individuais e coletivos, um conjunto de docentes de antropologia das várias universidades e institutos superiores resolveu desafiar estudantes de licenciatura e mestrado, que estão a ser treinados para a prática da nossa disciplina, para irem em busca dos sonhos.

Resumo longo / Long abstract:
Num tempo em que a pandemia introduziu uma crise acrescida do futuro, com uma temporalidade tóxica que parece cancelar ou adiar muitos sonhos individuais e coletivos, um conjunto de docentes de antropologia das várias universidades e institutos superiores resolveu desafiar os estudantes de licenciatura e mestrado, que estão a ser treinados para a prática da nossa disciplina, para irem em busca dos sonhos. Usando a etnografia como caminho, a nossa proposta visa que, de modo integrado, grupos de no máximo 3 estudantes de antropologia, entrevistem e procurem resposta a três perguntas, gravadas no telemóvel e montadas depois, até um máximo de 5 minutos de filme. Assim, depois de terem uma espécie de bilhete de identidade de quem entrevistam (nome, idade, ocupação, naturalidade, condição), as perguntas seriam:
1. O que sonha para o seu futuro?
2. O que sonha para o futuro do seu lugar (ou associação, ou grupo chegado, ou clube, ou …
3. O que sonha para o mundo?
Os filmes, com a duração de 5 minutos por grupo, serão depois vistos pelos docentes, que poderão fazer sugestões. A seguir, os/as jovens antropólogos/as serão postos em comunicação e, entre eles e como decidam, montarão um filme final, em cujos créditos virão os respetivos nomes, bem como os dos montadores/as. Esse filme será mostrado num dos momentos do congresso de setembro.

Língua complementar | Complementary language

Futuros imaginados: colecciones de estudiantes de antropología en 2022

Resumo curto / Short abstract:
En un momento en que la pandemia ha introducido una crisis creciente del futuro, con una temporalidad tóxica que parece cancelar o posponer muchos sueños individuales y colectivos, un grupo de profesores de antropología de varias universidades e institutos superiores decidió desafiar a estudiantes de pregrado y maestría, quienes están siendo capacitados para practicar nuestra disciplina, para perseguir sus sueños.

Resumo longo / Long abstract:
En un momento en que la pandemia ha introducido una crisis creciente del futuro, con una temporalidad tóxica que parece cancelar o posponer muchos sueños individuales y colectivos, un grupo de profesores de antropología de varias universidades e institutos portugueses decidió desafiar a estudiantes de pregrado y maestría, quienes están siendo capacitados para practicar nuestra disciplina, para perseguir sus sueños.Usando la etnografía como camino, nuestra propuesta apunta a que, de manera integrada, grupos de no más de 3 estudiantes de antropología, entrevisten y busquen respuesta a tres preguntas, grabadas en el celular y editadas posteriormente, hasta un máximo de 5 minutos de película. Así, luego de tener una especie de cédula de identidad del entrevistado (nombre, edad, ocupación, lugar de nacimiento, condición), las preguntas serían:
1. ¿Qué sueñas para tu futuro?
2. ¿Qué sueñas para el futuro de tu lugar (o asociación, o grupo cercano, o club, o…
3. ¿Qué sueñas para el mundo?
Las películas, de 5 minutos de duración por grupo, serán seguidamente vistas por los profesores, que podrán hacer sugerencias. A continuación, los jóvenes antropólogos se pondrán en comunicación y, entre ellos y según decidan, armarán una película final, en cuyos créditos aparecerán los nombres respectivos, así como los de los editores. Esta película se proyectará en uno de los momentos del congreso de septiembre.
La APA otorgaría a los jóvenes antropólogos un certificado de participación en esta iniciativa, y su inscripción en el congreso sería gratuita.

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MR07

officina.noctua — Tue, 10 May 2022 18:26:37 +0000

MR07

Coordenador | Coordinator
Omar Ribeiro Thomaz | UNICAMP | omarr.thomaz@gmail.com

Co-coordenador | Co-coordinator
Peter Fry | UFRJ- Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro | phfrio@gmail.com

Debatedor | Discussant
João de Pina Cabral | ICS- Instituto de Ciências Sociais- Universidade de Lisboa

Língua principal | Main language

Africanismos e África contemporânea em debate: sobre Espíritos de protesto de Peter Fry

Resumo curto / Short abstract:
A tradução brasileira recém-publicada da obra clássica de Peter Fry Espíritos de Protesto sobre os médiuns, os espíritos e os movimentos nacionalistas zimbabuanos no período rodesiano, e um debate com o autor sobre a realidade contemporânea do Zimbábue, são o eixo condutor de uma mesa-redonda que reúne antropólogos que, distribuídos entre Brasil, Portugal, Moçambique e o Reino Unido, pretendem reler o trabalho decisivo de gerações de africanistas e os dilemas impostos por contextos africanos na contemporaneidade.

Resumo longo / Long abstract:
A primeira edição em português do clássico Espíritos de Protesto: Mediunidade e a articulação do consenso entre os zezuru da Rodésia do Sul (Zimbábue), publicado originalmente em 1976 e fruto de uma pesquisa realizada em meados dos anos 1960 da Rodésia do Sul, é uma boa oportunidade para discutir os africanismos em antropologia social tendo como ponto de partida uma geração que se constitui em meio aos mestres dos “tempos heroicos”. Com efeito, o antropólogo brasileiro de origem britânica Peter Fry foi orientado por Mary Douglas e teve como mestres antropólogos como Jack Goody, J. Clyde Mitchell, Jaap van Velsen e Max Gluckman. Sua presença decisiva na antropologia brasileira a partir dos anos 1970 não o distanciou de seu primeiro campo africano – muito pelo contrário. Para o Brasil, trouxe a África africanista, e aqui, de certa forma, também a encontrou. Entre os anos 1980 e 1990, Peter retorna uma e outra vez ao Zimbábue e a Moçambique, mantém o diálogo com amigos zimbabweanos e acompanha o desenrolar de crises sociais, políticas e econômicas neste país africano. A edição em português apresenta uma segunda parte em que Peter Fry procura justamente refletir sobre os acontecimentos recentes no Zimbábue à luz de sua formação africanista e de uma trajetória que passa pelo Brasil e por Moçambique.
Nossa mesa reúne colegas com distintas experiências de campo e reflexão em países como Guiné-Bissau, Cabo Verde, Guiné-Conacri, República Democrática do Congo, Angola, África do Sul, Zimbábue e Moçambique para, a partir de um diálogo com Peter Fry, refletir sobre o lugar da antropologia contemporânea e africanismos que se afirmam em sua pluralidade. Nossa expectativa é que todos nos encontremos em Évora em setembro de 2022.

Língua complementar | Complementary language

Africanisms and contemporary Africa in debate: on Peter Fry’s Spirits of Protest

Resumo curto / Short abstract:
The recently published Brazilian translation of Peter Fry’s classic work Spirits of Protest on Zimbabwean mediums, spirits and nationalist movements in the Rhodesian period, and a debate with the author on the contemporary reality of Zimbabwe, are the guiding principle of a -round meeting that brings together anthropologists who, spread across Brazil, Portugal, Mozambique and the United Kingdom, intend to reread the decisive work of generations of Africanists and the dilemmas imposed by contemporary African contexts.

Resumo longo / Long abstract:
The first edition in Portuguese of the classic Spirits of Protest: Mediumship and the articulation of consensus among the Zezuru of Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), originally published in 1976 and the result of research carried out in the mid-1960s in Southern Rhodesia, is a good opportunity to discuss Africanisms in social anthropology, having as a starting point a generation that is constituted in the midst of the masters of the “heroic times”. Indeed, the Brazilian anthropologist of British origin Peter Fry was guided by Mary Douglas and had as master anthropologists such as Jack Goody, J. Clyde Mitchell, Jaap van Velsen and Max Gluckman. His decisive presence in Brazilian anthropology from the 1970s onwards did not distance him from his first African field – quite the contrary. To Brazil, he brought Africanist Africa, and here, in a way, he also found it. Between the 1980s and 1990s, Peter returns time and again to Zimbabwe and Mozambique, maintains dialogue with Zimbabwean friends and follows the unfolding of social, political and economic crises in this African country. The Portuguese edition presents a second part in which Peter Fry seeks to reflect on recent events in Zimbabwe in the light of his Africanist education and a trajectory that passes through Brazil and Mozambique.
Our table brings together colleagues with different field experiences and reflection in countries such as Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Guinea-Conakry, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Angola, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique to, through a dialogue with Peter Fry, reflect on the place of contemporary anthropology and Africanisms that assert themselves in their plurality. Our expectation is that we will all meet in Évora in September 2022.

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