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The Study Group "Anthropology of Post-Truth, Denialism and Conspiracy Formations" aims to analyze and discuss, from an anthropological perspective, the phenomena of post-truth, denialism and conspiracy theories.

Meeting theme: "Pragmatic Encounters" vs. denialism
The group will discuss the following text: 

ALMEIDA, Mauro W. Barbosa de. Ontological Anarchism and Truth in the Anthropocene. Ilha Revista de Antropologia, Florianópolis, v. 23, n. 1, p. 10–29, 2021.

https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/ilha/article/view/78405

Date: September 19, 2024…

Dear all,

We invite you to the 1st International Seminar on Influences in the Arts from Dakar, held by the USP Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology and the thematic project Link'Art Africas (FAPESP), which will bring together researchers from Senegalese, French and Brazilian institutions from September 16 to 19, 2024, in the city of São Paulo.
In the attachment, you can check the schedule and the link to register.here 
The event will be held in person and the panels will have simultaneous translation from Portuguese to French and from French to Portuguese.

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The course addresses the rhythms of the Orixás, with their dances and musical manifestations, including their influence on Brazilian music. The theme and reference will be the instrumentalists/priests of the Orixás, fundamental in Brazilian musicality. The dialogues offered in these meetings are based on the self-taught methodology of the Solano Trindade Family, with the fusion of theory and practice, and the proposal of movement, sound and well-being as epistemology.

Coordination
Prof Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, from FFLCH

Instructor(s)
Vitor Israel Trindade…

The Center for Amerindian Studies invites you to our event:

Lecture with
Renato Sztutman (PPGAS-USP)
Karen Shiratori (PPGAS-USP)
Emanuele Fabiano (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales - EHESS)

"Plant insurgencies against the palm empire: preliminary notes on a breeding experiment in Ucayali"

The event will feature a screening of the film "Bakish Rao: plants in struggle" (Denilson Baniwa and Comando Matico, 2023)

Wednesday, 09/11/2024 - 3:00 p.m.
LISA Auditorium (Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology)…

Lecture with Juliana Oliveira Silva
PPGAS/USP Postdoc
Fapesp Process 2023/02002-2

Gender and power among the Korubo: the case of the matxo
Abstract: In the ethnological literature on the peoples of the Pano linguistic family, the cognates of the word matxo were mostly translated as “old women”. However, among the Korubo of the Vale do Javari Indigenous Land (Amazonas), matxo designates a category of adult women who display optimized dexterity and skills in their daily lives, in hunting and gathering expeditions, and in the treatment given to others, especially…

SEMINAR ON INDIGENOUS PRESENCE AND ABSENCE AT USP

Dates: August 19, 20 and 21, 2024
Thematic tables - Auditorium of the Brasiliana Library
August 19 and 20, 2024: from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm and from 7:30 pm to 10:00 pm
Final plenary session - Room 14, Social Sciences and Philosophy Building (FFLCH)
August 21, 2024: from 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm.

Participate in the Seminar and contribute to indigenous access initiatives at the University of São Paulo and in Brazilian Higher Education

It is urgent that the university can think about and…

PPGAS invites all faculty and students to a meeting where we will evaluate the challenges of our program and think about expectations for the coming years. The idea is to collectively diagnose the main challenges and positive aspects that cross our daily academic work, as well as the expectations and projections that we can draw for the coming years. We look forward to seeing you for breakfast.

Study Group: Anthropology of Post-Truth, Denialism and Conspiratorial Formations - 5th meeting

The Study Group "Anthropology of Post-Truth, Denialism and Conspiracy Formations" aims to analyze and discuss, from an anthropological perspective, the phenomena of post-truth, denialism and conspiracy theories.

Meeting theme

The group will discuss the following text:

HOLANDA, Jorge Garcia de. Aesthetics of a flat and stationary world: science, religion and conspiracism in the flat-earth digital…

The symposium, organized within the Fapesp Thematic Project Arts and semantics of creation and memory (Process no. 2020/07886-8), seeks to promote meetings between professionals from different subfields and traditions within anthropology, as well as welcome people from other areas of knowledge, whose perspectives contribute to a production of knowledge that is critical and sensitive to the different ways of creating and inhabiting worlds. Conceived from four main axes that make up the thematic project – arts, ecology, kinship and politics –, the 1st International Métis Symposium foresees…