Oswaldo Estrada (editor), “Rosa Beltrán: afectos literarios y el arte de narrar”, Ciudad de México, Bonilla Artigas Editores, 2023, pp. 362
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Category: Italian
The Visual Habitus of a Traceur
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…
Phillip Vannini, ed. The Routledge International Handbook of Ethnographic Film and Video.
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…
Aging On-Screen:
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…
Saved by the (Half) Elves:
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…
Editorial
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 …
Carescopes: On Caring, Looking at and Becoming
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…
Filming as a Care Practice
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…
Mending Gaps with Multimodal Care
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…
Doing Multimodal Anthropology of Ageing with Smartphones
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…
Poor, underprivileged and delinquent minors in Brazil during the transition from Empire to Republic: a historiographical balance
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…
“José Saramago, Lezioni Italiane”, a cura di Giorgio de Marchis, Roma, La Nuova Frontiera, 2022 (156 pp.)
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Quatro sátiras atribuídas a Gregório de Matos: um breve exercício de edição
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).
Corpi in gioco: la descriptio puellae nell’opera di Jerónimo Baía
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…
Pilar del Río, “La intuición de la isla. Los días de José Saramago en Lanzarote”, México, Alfaguara, 2022 (244 pp.)
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Fernando Gómez Aguilera, “José Saramago. O Pássaro que Pia Pousado no Rinoceronte (leituras saramaguianas)”, Porto, Porto Editora, 2022 (341 pp.)
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«Escrito especialmente para ellos»: María Luisa Bombal’s rethinking of «La última niebla» in «House of mist»
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 Double’: An intervention in the mimesis of dominant masculinity
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 …
La dimensión ética de la democracia. Raúl R. Alfonsín y la transición argentina
El periodo de la transición a la democracia en Argentina se caracterizó por el liderazgo del radical Raúl R. Alfonsín y su peculiar interpretación del régimen político democrático. Este ensayo pretende analizar la evolución de la dimensión ética de la …
Alma Delia Miranda (cord.), “Saramagia. Testimonios y recuerdos sobre José Saramago en su paso por México”, Ciudad de México, Grano De Sal, 2023 (164 pp.)
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The ‘idea’ of Mapuche: representations of the indigenous people in Juan Ignacio Molina’s patriotic discourse
Many authors, in the early modern era, speculated on the origins of the indigenous people in the Americas. The article analyses the discourses by which Juan Ignacio Molina (1740-1829) depicts Mapuche, which constitutes a fragment of the ‘idea’ of the n…
Reflexões acerca do significado nas obras de ficção de José Saramago
Com este ensaio, pretendemos tratar uma das particularidades do estilo de José Saramago que tem escapado aos que se vêm ocupando do estudo da sua obra: a reflexão sobre a própria escrita e, mais concretamente, sobre a matéria da linguagem, ou seja, as …
“Sou também o Deus e o Diabo que lá estão”: a querela autor-narrador de Saramago
José Saramago posicionou-se repetidas vezes contra a utilização do conceito de narrador, não raro com afirmações categóricas e provocativas, buscando inserir-se numa discussão teórico-literária que transcendeu a sua época e o seu entorno. Refletindo so…
Carlos Reis (org.), “José Saramago: nascido para isto.” Lisboa, Fundação José Saramago, 2020 (254 pp.)
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Presença da obra de José Saramago no Brasil: a chegada
A história sobre a presença da obra de José Saramago no Brasil ainda espera ser escrita. O que se apresenta neste artigo é algum contributo nesse sentido. Trata-se de uma peça de sociologia dos hábitos literários, dado o interesse de descrição sócio-hi…