Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Vivemos tempos sombrios no Brasil. Tempos marcados pela reverberação das ideias e palavras de ordem do autoritarismo, especialmente aquelas que se apoiam no legado da Ditadura Militar (1964-1985). Neste artigo, discutir-se-á a forma como a dramaturgia …
El objetivo de la contribución es avanzar la hipótesis de una posible lectura bajo el prisma del modo melodramático de narraciones pertenecientes al corpus de la generación de HIJOS argentinos que enfocan el tema de los vínculos afectivos intergeneraci…
Este artigo estuda a produção e a circulação de um vídeo produzido pelo YouTuber Felipe Castanhari sobre a ditadura civil-militar brasileira. Argumenta-se que a narrativa elaborada pelo YouTuber atualiza certa interpretação histórica e memorial sobre a…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
En este artículo nos propusimos examinar los vínculos personales y políticos establecidos entre el presidente Juan Domingo Perón y monseñor Nicolás De Carlo, obispo de la diócesis de Resistencia (Chaco, Argentina). Entre los años 1946 y 1951, este sace…
This article examines the role and the function performed by Voz Operária during the Brazilian military dictatorship. Despite not abandoning its ideological principles, the monthly emerged in this period as a catalyst for a culture of resistance and de…
Following a visual ethnography, this article analyzes parkour’s visual subculture as a form of subcultural capital that has developed with the rise of this alternative sport. It describes a visual habitus and a set of media practices to understa…
Introduction
My first impression was that The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video was the third broad-based overview of visual anthropology, so I requested a review copy. However, I had to adjust my impression t…
In a Lisbon senior day center, the staff and especially the elderly members care for each other in ways that expand upon the neoliberal assumptions of active aging campaigns in Portugal. Theatre plays, and communal watching of the video-recordin…
In this paper, I look at how ethnographic filmmaking became research practice when I focused the lens towards the everyday life of my grandparents. Furthermore, I explore how imagistic, metaphorical, or even fantastical elements where the key to…
While we were finalizing this introduction, British media outlets announced the death of the BBC news presenter George Alagiah who passed away, at the age of 60, and nine years after he had been diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer. In one of …
In this paper, I focus on those images of dementia (care) which have been, or might be, deemed overtly positive, because they tend to marginalize suffering, decline and compassion fatigue. I argue for the notion of carescope, a heuristic tool wh…
These are three distinct essays that interrogate what happens when the anthropologist studying aging and care envisions their fieldwork through the lens of the video camera and its outputs. The intersection between the anthropology of care/aging…
Prologue:
This is a slightly unusual commentary since it was written in response to three oral presentations at the EASA 2020 meetings of “Illuminating Futures of the Life Course through Visual and Digital Media” should be of which only o…
In this paper we reflect upon our comparative ethnographic research on ageing, the life course and smartphones in Italy and Japan as part of a collaborative anthropological project The Anthropology of Smartphones and Smart Ageing (ASSA). Our dis…
O artigo revisa a bibliografia produzida pela academia brasileira a respeito da menoridade pobre, desvalida e delinquente no Brasil, no período que corresponde ao final do século XIX e começo do século XX. Dentro deste recorte cronológico, o artigo exp…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Caim, último romance publicado em vida por José Saramago, recupera uma leitura do texto bíblico como a ratificar a ideia dos desentendimentos do homem com a esfera do divino. Mas para além de sua visão dessacralizadora e não raro sarcástica, caim é sob…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Este artigo transcreve, edita e comenta quatro poemas satíricos atribuídos ao poeta baiano Gregório de Matos, preservados em manuscritos sob a guarda da Fundação Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil).
Lo studio prende in esame cinque componimenti in cui il poeta barocco portoghese Frei Jerónimo Baía (1620-1688) dipinge il ritratto della donna amata. In essi si assiste all’elenco delle diverse parti del corpo elogiate per la loro bellezza, secondo un…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
María Luisa Bombal’s La última niebla, published in 1935, was so famous in Chile that Bombal’s North American husband, Rafael de Saint Phalle, urged her to translate it into English years after its publication and after Bombal had mostly given up writi…
The present article focuses on The Double, deliberately turning away from the literary motif that Saramago appropriates to denaturalize and expose the constructedness of dominant masculinity and its apparatuses of social and symbolic reproduction. The …