History - PPGAS Events

Cooking with Lévi-Strauss and the Enawenê-nawê Women: In Search of the Human Condition in the Details of Everyday Life

The Enawenê-Nawê women of Central Brazil have a close relationship with their staple food, wild cassava and toxic tubers when raw. Managing contact with cassava requires constant attention from household members (moving the kitchen to a different , taking shamanic precautions, preparing special dishes, etc.), as this is where people vulnerable to the plant’s harmful effects—conceived as a hyperanimated female entity—are found: menstruating women, their partners,…

The Department of Anthropology at USP invites the academic community to the second edition of the RESPIRO Study Cycle, which will feature the participation of researcher Laure Emperaire — IRD/France —, a leading figure in debates on agrobiodiversity, traditional agricultural systems, and biocultural heritage.
The conference, entitled "From agrobiodiversity to pyrodiversity: SATs as a method and biocultural heritage as a horizon," will be held on May 22, 2026, from 2:30 pm to 4:30 pm, at the Maison du CNRS, located in Praça dos Bancos, Butantã Campus of the University of São Paulo.…

A gathering to discuss anthropological practice through the lens of Sylvia Caiuby Novaes’s career, from her work in Amerindian ethnology to visual anthropology, including photography and archival research, as well as her influence and the impact of the research she has supervised over the past decades.

📅 May 18 and 19, 2026

SCHEDULE

May 18

Panel 1 - 2:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Ethnologies: With Carlos Fausto, André Drago, João Kelmer, Pedro Meniconi, and Yuri Werner
Online broadcast: https://youtube.com/live/vutGpNXY-dg

Panel 2 - 6:00 PM to 8…

On May 12th, at 6 PM, we will host researcher Bryce Henson (University of Texas A&M) for the lecture “Emerging Quilombos: Black Life and Afro-Diasporic Cultures in Brazil.” The lecture will take place in the LISA auditorium.

Dr. Bryce Henson is an associate professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at the University of Texas A&M. He is a qualitative social scientist and a researcher of African cultural studies in the diaspora, with an emphasis on Brazil. In 2023, his book *Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil* was published by the…

Ethnoarchaeology of the Territory and Indigenous Peoples in a Historical Situation of Isolation in the Brazilian Amazon
This research analyzes the theoretical and methodological contributions of the ethnoarchaeology of the territory to understanding the forms of occupation, circulation, and relationship with space among indigenous peoples in a historical situation of isolation in the Brazilian Amazon. Considering the ethical and political restrictions arising from the guidelines of non-contact, the study mobilizes indirect sources of analysis, such as expedition records, material…

Launch lecture for the 2nd edition of “Reason, ‘Color,’ and Desire,” a book that explores how societies construct meanings for racial difference when shaped by desire and eroticization.

Featuring Prof. Dr. Laura Moutinho (USP),
Prof. Dr. Sérgio Carrara (UERJ) and
Prof. Dr. Márcia Lima (USP)

Registration: sescsp.org.br/cpf

Clouds of Indigenous Treasures: How to Return Them to the Forest’s Owners

Betty Mindlin’s experience of living alongside and defending the rights of more than 15 Indigenous peoples since 1978—documented in recordings, books, writings, and lectures—caught the attention of Indigenous women’s studies scholar Vanessa Pastorini, who is 50 years younger than Betty. They discuss how to preserve and pass on to younger generations the wealth of knowledge Betty gained from these peoples, and how to continue this alliance and closeness in the present day. One topic is the donation of Betty’s…

On April 24, 2026, at 2 PM, LISA will host the first edition of the RESPIRO Study Cycle of the Collective of Anthropology, Environment and Biotechnodiversity (CHAMA).

The opening lecture, entitled “Restoring Pyrodiversity: Learning from Cultural Fire and Knowledge Co-production in Intercultural Fire Management,” will feature Bibiana Bilbao from the Universidad Simón Bolívar (Venezuela) and the COBRA Collective (England).

RESPIRO is the project “Restoring the Pyrodiversity of the Cerrado,” developed within the scope of the BIOTA/FAPESP – Discovery 2024 Program, in the Young…

LISA-USP will host researchers from Humboldt University of Berlin for a presentation and discussion on music and sound system culture. Organized by the Research in Musical Anthropology group (PAM-USP), the seminar "Sound System Epistemologies" will be an opportunity to discuss sound epistemologies with researchers active in the international music scene.

Meet the guests:

Stefanie Alisch - Diretora do projeto "Sound System Epistemologies" (DFG) na Universidade Humboldt de Berlim.
É musicóloga e DJ em Berlim, pesquisadora de música e dança do Atlântico Negro, com foco…

We invite you to the seminar "Black Ethnomusicology: Crossroads of Knowledge and the African Legacy in Musical Studies" with the participation of Professor Pedro Acosta (Federal University of Bahia - UFBA), organized by the Research in Musical Anthropology (PAM-USP), the Black Ethnomusicology Collective (CEN-UFBA), and the Black Memory project at FFLCH.

The event aims to share experiences in Black Ethnomusicology through the historical agency of Black people in musical studies, art, and culture. This project, carried out in Brazil together with the community of African Music, Dance…