Leyla Perrone-Moisés, “As artemages de Saramago”, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2022 (156 pp.)
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Some of the most recent articles from open access anthropology journals (beta)
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Nell’ambito dei processi di globalizzazione letteraria e editoriale degli ultimi tre decenni, la nostra idea è interrogare l’opera obra saramaghiana come un caso specifico di affermazione di uno scrittore di una antica lingua imperiale come il portoghe…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Este artículo analiza cómo Severo Sarduy emplea los topónimos, gentilicios y extranjerismos en la novela Maitreya (1978). El narrador se acerca a estas palabras desde una perspectiva desterritorializada, poniendo en entredicho la geografía como ciencia…
Confluenze. Rivista di Studi Iberoamericani
Com um material biográfico ainda mal fundamentado sobre a morte de Salazar até o seu momento de publicação, veremos no conto “Cadeira”, de José Saramago, que há referências explícitas e demasiado limitadas às informações contidas nos boletins médicos o…
Editores/as de organização Ana María Forero Angel (am.forero260@uniandes.edu.co)Departamento de Antropologia, Universidade de Los Andes (Colômbia) Marco J. Martínez-Moreno (akkmjm@gmail.com)Programa de […]
This is a book review for An Amazonian myth and History, to the special volume to honor Peter Gow
The review revises the most inportant concepts of the book Of Mixed Blood
This interview presents an initial dialogue about Peter Gow’s trajectory as an anthropologist, trying to bring to light particularly the fieldwork experiences and events thatithad notbeen possible to commenton and explore in the published material….
This article is concerned with the relationships through which children have been born, raised, and made into Amahuaca people over the past 75 years, and within contemporary Native Communities on the Inuya River since their formation beginning in t…
In Of Mixed Blood, Peter Gow sets out an account of the transformations of kinship and the construction of social relations among Indigenous, mainly Yine (Piro), people of the Bajo Urubamba valley in the early 1980s, when Peru’s “Comunidades Nativa…
Combining a contemporary ethnographic perspective with a review of historical records, the article extends Peter Gow’s re-reading of the ex-Cocama phenomenon in the Western Amazon. It argues that the foundation of the Amazonian Peruvian town of Req…
Based on the inspiration Peter Gow takes from Lévi-Strauss’ canonical formula or double twist and his concept of ensemble, this article aims to illustrate by analogy how the rituals of female initiation, such as the Yammana of the Enlhet-Enenlhet, …
El presente artículo tiene como objetivo reflexionar acerca de las nociones de cuerpo y persona del pueblo o’dam del norte de México, partiendo de los principios que Peter Gow y otros autores han observado para las poblaciones nativas de la región …
This paper constitutes a personal exploration of the impact of the work of Peter Gow on my own attempts to think through specific ethnographic problems, both in the Mapuche communities of Southern Chile and the Gaelic communities of Western Scotlan…
In this article I consider the impact of Peter Gow’s writing on indigenous histories as a key area of research on Amazonia. Building on his study of kinship as history on the Bajo Urubamba (1991) he presented a regional perspective on the dynamic s…
This paper explores the notion of painting as meaningful action (Gow 1999) and highlights the productivity of the idea as emerged from, and dovetailing, different strands of thought on the nature of symbols and actions. Bringing together Lévi-Strau…
In this article, we reflect on one of Peter Gow’s key pieces of work, “Helpless,” tracing how his scholarship has informed and influenced our own work, from our experiences in the field to our approaches to analysis. We explore some of the main the…
Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America
Molts museus de memòria integren en les seves exposicions biografies personals per reforçar les seves explicacions i continguts. L’article reflexiona sobre les tècniques i estratègies utilitzades per recollir i mostrar aquests relats, tot assenyalant-n…
El texto toma como referente la forma en que Walter Benjamin entiende el trabajo de la memoria, su relación con las nociones de experiencia, inconsciente actualización del pasado en el presente, para analizar, en primer lugar, la relación entre memoria…
El planteamiento de base de este artículo explora cómo la antropología social puede intervenir en la conversación que se ha abierto en los últimos años en los llamados «estudios de memoria». Resulta paradójico que la antropología permanece aún en la pe…
Todas las muertes provocadas por una causa extraordinaria (si es que tiene sentido hablar de muertes naturales) generan un impacto en la sociedad, cuya magnitud se explica por lo sucedido o por el elevado número de defunciones. Recurriendo a la idea de…
Els textos recollits en aquest número temàtic d’Arxiu d’Etnografia de Catalunya ofereixen una suggestiva mirada coral al voltant de les memòries socials, un àmbit que ens segueix interpel·lant com a societat.