Tesis doctorals 2022-2023
Tesis doctorals 2022-2023
Category: Multilingual
New issue: Volume 20 (2023)
A new issue of Vibrant – Virtual Brazilian Anthropology is now available: Vibrant – Volume 20 contains the dossiers Ethnography of Governance Institutions and Utopias of Recycling and Circularity.
Migration and Ethnic Themes, Vol.39 No.1
Published: June 2023.
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…
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…
The way of warriors: annotated narratives of the Mebengokre (Kayapo) in Brazil
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
“Letalidade branca”: antropologia, educação e universidade. Uma entrevista com Felipe Tuxá
Esta entrevista realizada com Felipe Sotto Maior Cruz, ou melhor, Felipe Tuxá – antropólogo do povo Tuxá, da Aldeia Mãe de Rodelas, Bahia, primeiro professor indígena da Universidade Federal da Bahia e membro do departamento de Antropologia e Etnol…
Jean E. Jackson: a pioneering ethnographer in the Colombian Amazon
This essay celebrates the work of Jean E. Jackson, a pioneering female ethnographer who devoted most of her fifty-year career to the Indigenous peoples of Colombia. Her research, represented in an extensive set of publications from the early 1970s …
Into an interference zone: childbirth and care among Mehinako people
This article addresses issues of care and corporeality during gestation, childbirth, the postpartum period, and childcare through a case study conducted with Mehinako people. Among this Amazonian people, care forms the person, having an elementary …
The Age of The Onanya – Regarding the spread of ayahuasca use throughout the Ucayali basin
The spread of ayahuasca shamanism throughout the Upper Amazon has become a matter of debate among scholars since, in 1994, anthropologist Peter Gow formulated the controversial suggestion that it could be a recent phenomenon in the Ucayali basin, u…
Clever animals: Naturalcultural interactions in Karitiana hunting practices (Rondônia, Brazil)
This article addresses hunting practices and human-animal relations among the Karitiana, a Tupi-Arikém-speaking indigenous people in the southwestern Brazilian Amazon, asserting that if humans can learn from animals in long-lasting hunting experien…
Vaupés multilingualism and the substance of language
By focusing on ordinary conversational language, relying on a notion of “group” derived from unilineal descent theory, and neglecting mythology and ritual, studies of Vaupés Tukanoan multilingualism have inadvertently tended to reproduce a Western …
Multilingual Pantanal and its decay
Historically, the Pantanal wetlands were inhabited by diverse ethnicities belonging to various linguistic groups, including Bororoan, Arawakan, Tupian, Gauicuruan, and Zamucoan, as well as some isolates and unclassified languages. Numerous ethnic g…
Two multilingual regions in southwestern Amazonia
Southwestern Amazonia is one of the most linguistically diverse regions of the Americas. It is possible that traditional Indigenous small-scale multilingualism used to exist in two neighboring regions in what is now Rondônia, on the Brazilian side …
Language, exogamy and ethnicity in the Upper Rio Negro region
In this article we explore how languages interact with exogamous social units (e.g., clans and phratries) and descent ideologies (such as having a common mythical ancestor and emergence from the same mythical place) to help organize the multilingua…
Introduction: Indigenous multilingualism in lowland South America
Recent decades have seen an exponential growth in our understanding of the indigenous languages of lowland South America – from their structures and interrelationships to the dynamics of their day-to-day use and the ways they are conceptualized by …
Compte rendu de lecture du livre de Haruka Ueda, « Food education and gastronomic tradition in Japan and France, ethical and sociological theories »
UEDA H. 2023. Food education and gastronomic tradition in Japan and France, ethical and sociological theories. Routledge : Oxford.
1973, après une longue période de procès en ringardise, l’enseignement ménager est définitivement rayé de la…
Les enjeux de l’éducation alimentaire
UEDA H. 2023. Food education and gastronomic tradition in Japan and France, ethical and sociological theories. Routledge : Oxford.
1973, après une longue période de procès en ringardise, l’enseignement ménager est définitivement rayé de la…