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Desigualdades econômicas em perspectiva histórica: Notas sobre a teoria dos tempos históricos
Full text linkO presente texto examina as principais obras que abordaram as desigualdades econômicas desde o fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial com o objetivo de discutir a necessidade de renovação desses estudos. Partindo do pressuposto de que o debate sobre as desigualdades é feito, na maioria das vezes, a partir de uma concepção linear ou utilitária da história, o artigo apresenta algumas ferramentas analíticas que deem conta de incluir nas discussões os múltiplos estratos de tempo que conformam a contemporaneidade. A ideia a ser desenvolvida é que, ao se perpetuarem historicamente, determinadas estruturas do passado impactam a atualidade de maneira significativa e de formas variadas, influenciando as bases das desigualdades do nosso cotidiano. Ao reforçar esses estratos de tempo, o texto também espera contribuir para os estudos que buscam extrapolar as fronteiras teóricas e empíricas do nacionalismo metodológico, em prol de interpretações centradas na ideia de totalidade histórica
The Car as a Machine Producing Nature. Automobility as a Prosthetic Machine Reproducing Modern Mindsets
Full text linkAfterword: Assault Sorcery and Kanaima in the Light of New Empirical Approaches: Neil Whitehead’s Legacy and Beyond
Full text linkSorcery in Amazonia: A Comparative Exploration of Magical Assault
Full text linkAlthough shamanism has become a well-developed and expansive topic within the anthropology of Amazonia, the ethnographic literature focusing on sorcery has been sporadic and sparse by comparison. This has particularly been the case since the death of Neil L. Whitehead in 2012. However, as this volume shows, sorcery is often of great importance in the lives and cosmologies of many people in different parts of lowland South America. Across the region, it takes a variety of forms and involves a diverse range of practices. This edited volume comparatively re-examines the topic of sorcery in Amazonia with particular emphases on local ontological frameworks, issues of embodiment, and related uses of sound. It highlights ethical approaches to research concerning sorcery and discusses the ethics within local communities of sorcery practices and accusations
Militarization as Conviviality: How Women Define and Resist Gendered Everyday Violence and Discipline in Brazil
No full textThis working paper uses Mecila’s conviviality framework to advance a gendered analysis of Brazilian militarization. Drawing on ethnographic vignettes, it examines how three distinct women’s movements in Brazil – mothers opposing state violence, women from the landless worker’s movement, and women in São Paulo’s urban student movement – perceive and resist militarization. Their perspectives diverge from traditional definitions of international relations scholarship. Moreover, they provide critical insight into dimensions of militarization often overlooked by the “pluralist normative” framework and other anthropological approaches to urban violence in Brazil. The paper demonstrates that these movements’ interpretations of militarization align more closely with feminist perspectives. Building on these feminist interpretations, the paper conceptualizes militarization as conviviality, framing it as an everyday process with differential impacts on men and women. This process is both material and ideological, shaped by the influence of men with guns on politics, but also extending beyond and affecting women in specific ways. Recognizing these varied impacts is crucial to effectively challenge and oppose militarization within Brazilian society, its economy, and its politics
Mundos en movimiento, historias entrelazadas: perspectivas actuales sobre el encuentro de los mundos mexicano y europeo
Full text linkReexamina las consecuencias de la conquista de México y presenta nuevos enfoques interpretativos desde diversas disciplinas. El volumen adopta esencialmente dos perspectivas: por un lado, propone aproximaciones a una historia material de la conquista; por otro, se centra en la historia del conocimiento a lo largo de los siglos
