Leenhardt, Jacques, Rever Debret. “Colônia─Ateliê─Nação”, São Paulo, Editora 34, 2023, 129 pp. Traduzione di Samuel Titan Jr
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Crítica al régimen topofóbico de representación: contravisualidades del feminicidio y la desaparición forzada en México
Este artículo propone una lectura crítica de la representación topofóbica de la desaparición forzada y el feminicidio en México desde el giro afectivo de Sara Ahmed. A través del análisis de la instalación de arte ¡Visite Ciudad Juárez! de Ambra Polido…
“Transnacionalidad” y actualización de la memoria de la violencia: el caso de El Salvador
El debate científico sobre las políticas de memoria centroamericanas ha conocido importantes desarrollos, que testimonian su importancia en las agendas políticas actuales. Este artículo pretende reconstruir y analizar el proceso de creación y funcionam…
Los vestigios del concepto de “guerra justa” del autoritarismo militar brasileño en el discurso bolsonarista sobre el enemigo
Entre 2018 y 2022, Brasil vivió una fuerte polarización política y social basada en una lógica dualista de “amigos” y “enemigos”. Iniciada en 2014, alcanzó su punto máximo con Bolsonaro, cuyo discurso retomó ideales autoritarios de una nación homogénea…
Negacionismo e autoritarismo: diálogos sensíveis em tempos difíceis
A eleição de Jair Bolsonaro e a ascensão da extrema-direita ao poder no Brasil não são um fato isolado, mas a retomada de uma longa tradição autoritária do século XX, marcada pela Era Vargas (1930-1945) e a Ditadura Militar (1964-1985). Entre 2018 e 20…
The Brazilian Army and The Political Instrumentalization of Memory
The involvement of high-ranking military personnel in Brazil’s politics has become common, especially after Jair Bolsonaro’s election as a former army captain. Their political statements often reference the 1960s-1980s authoritarian military regime, ke…
Towards Circular Consent in African Studies
Consent forms are crucial in the approval of research projects by ethics committees within and outside Africa. However, the current formalization and standardization of consent inadvertently limits the ability of researchers and participants…
Form, Formats, and Forms of Informed Consent
This article reflects on the unforeseen dynamics revealed as we presented written consent forms to be signed by our interlocutors during fieldwork in Djibouti and Namibia. Throughout the article we analyse how the consent form (in its legali…
Authentic Consent and the Decolonial Trouble of “Studying Up”
Studying gender in African Union and national politics, I came across a scenario in which my interview requests were ignored until someone from the donor community vouched for me. As field-based researchers, we often rely on our networks to …
Negotiating Consent in African Studies
Informed consent has been increasingly equated with standardized models and legal jargon. At Scandinavian universities, researchers are expected to adhere to European standardized models and institutional forms, necessitating documentable (p…
“What Are We Agreeing Upon?” Negotiating Consent in Research with Indigenous Communities in the DRC
Ethical review boards in social science research require researchers to solicit informed and voluntary consent from their research participants. However, how is consent negotiated in the field when working with research participants who have…
The Question of Gatekeeping Consent
Conducting fieldwork in collaboration with NGOs is becoming increasingly common. However, the process and difficulties of obtaining organizational access are rarely outlined in ethnographic literature. This article unravels the author’s expe…
Postscript
Based on my professional journey in the Danish Africanist landscape, I analyse the history of Denmark’s Africa-related knowledge production and capacity building. Throughout the article, I highlight major changes in the Danish approach to Af…
Do myths ever die? Social-cultural changes and mythical transformations in Indigenous Amazonia: a dialogue with Peter Gow
This is the first Peter Gow Memorial Lecture, given at the University of St Andrews in February 2024. Based on the analysis of different versions of Wari’ myths (Rondônia, Brazil) collected over forty years, the paper has two central objectives. Th…
Outras antropologias e seus desafios cosmopolíticos: reflexividades indígenas
Este texto é resultado “Dueto”/keynote com Tânia Stolze Lima do Congresso da Salsa em Letícia, intitulado: “Outras antropologias e os seus desafios cosmopolíticos”, proferida no dia 29 de novembro de 2023, onde propõe uma reflexão sobre os desafios…
Baniwa Speculative Kinship
This article discusses the dynamics of Indigenous kinship in the Amazon, based on the autobiographical narrative of Mr. Júlio Cardoso, a ninety-year-old man of the Baniwa people. From his account, I develop an ethnographic discussion on the Baniwa,…
Enactive Narrativities: Rubber-Times Historicity and Indigenous Media in Peruvian Amazonia
This article analyzes the intersection between historicity and politics expressed in Kukama media-making practices. It examines the political and enactive dimensions involved in the Indigenous mediatization of rubber-era narratives in Peruvian Amaz…
Relatos corporales con ajustes epistémicos De cuando un cuerpo humano se transformaba en bufeo en el río Napo
Es inusual ver a un ser humano transformándose en delfín y mucho menos lo es el tener una conversación con este en el proceso. Este texto explora el momento de una transformación corporal en la Amazonía peruana desde una experiencia etnográfica en …
Gentes y maneras de hablar en el río Apaporis (Colombia): el caso de YAUNA, TANIMUCA y LETUAMA
El artículo ofrece una perspectiva histórica y lingüística sobre las relaciones entre las lenguas y pueblos conocidos como Yauna, Tanimuca y Letuama, enfocándose en el origen y significado de estos glosónimos y etnónimos. Hacemos un recorrido por e…
Ser Nhande’i va’e, da concepção aos primeiros passos: uma abordagem etnográfica sobre a permanência, o movimento e a palavra
O evento do nascimento, assim como os ritos de passagem, são temas recorrentes na literatura etnográfica, com destaque aos resguardos, condutas e preceitos. Neste artigo, ao versar sobre o ato de nascer, refiro-me a alguns princípios referenciados …
An X-ray of Mẽbêngôkre Houses in terms of matrimonial alliance
This article examines the matrimonial implications of the Houses, or matrihouses, of the Mẽtyktire subgroup of the Mẽbêngôkre (Kayapó-Jê) with the assistance of Puck (Program for the Use and Computation of Kinship Data) and Pajek software. In accor…
Naming people, making bodies: Reflections on Tukano onomastics
This article discusses the topic of names and naming among Amerindian peoples, in particular among Tukano speakers on the Uaupés River, northwestern Amazon. After reviewing the analytical contrast between endonyms and exonyms (i.e., internal transm…
Redefining Gender Equality: A Senegalese Conversation with Islam
Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. How do Muslim women balance their religious agency and political aspirations? Gender quotas have been used across the African continent to improve women’s political visibility since the 1990s. Senegal’s own experiment w…
Affect Affects
This afterword considers the thematic issue ‘The Affective Politics of Music in Latin America,’ published by the Journal of Extreme Anthropology. I begin by questioning the frame of Latin America as space of inquiry for understanding the rel…
Kitchen Utensils, Altarpieces and Friendly Smiles
Among the high number of asylum seekers arriving in Europe in 2015, thousands converted from Islam to Christianity. An emerging body of scholarship explores these conversions. This article sheds light on the lived experience of converting to…