History - PPGAS Events

Under the coordination of Prof. Dr. Helena Sampaio (Unicamp, ex-NUPPs), there will be a table at ANPOCS on 10/19 at 9:30 am in "HOMAGE TO EUNICE DURHAM". Professors José Álvaro Moisés and Simon Schwartzman, (both former directors of the NUPPs), Yvonne Maggie (anthropologist and friend) and Antônio Augusto Arantes (UNICAMP and her former adviser) also participate in the meeting.

Singing, jãnaha, is the main form of musical expression of the Awa Guajá. Vocal music is present in many moments of your life, be they ritual, mundane, celebration or mourning. Children play singing from an early age, imitating adults who sing all the time. Singing is also the form of communication for the karawara, the beings that inhabit the celestial layers of the cosmos, the iwa. It is on the trip to the iwa that you learn to sing with the karawara. One of the privileged occasions for singing and listening to the chants is the ritual in which the awa men ascend to heaven, accompanied…

Conversation Wheels

Fridays in October - 17:00

PPGAS/USP channel on Youtube

Multiply to excess?
Pankararu ritual dynamics, Pernambuco and São Paulo
Abstract: The objective of this speech is to analyze the ritual expansion, the increase not only of occurrences but also of forms. It is based on research carried out with the Pankararu Indians, both in the village of Brejo dos Padres (PE) and in the city of São Paulo. This increase is expressed in two distinct and complementary ways, which feed each other: on the one hand, a gradual and continuous increase began several decades ago; on the other hand, the month of January is the scene of an ephemeral…

From mourning to struggle: lessons from the indigenous Northeast
Abstract: Transforming mourning (or death) into an engine of struggle (or of life) is not something new for indigenous groups. Over the last four years, and in the face of countless criminal acts - and an uncertain number of deaths, given the underreporting of the pandemic, for example, but also of what we are calling death - we were summoned by indigenous leaders from different backgrounds. places in the country to recognize this fact; to recognize that the extermination process employed as a State policy by the…

CINUSP hosts an exhibition of films from LISA-USP during the USP Art and Culture Week. Follow the schedule on September 28, 29 and 30 on the CINUSP website (http://www.usp.br/cinusp/) .

Sessions on the 28th will be attended by Renato Albuquerque, director of Eu sou. The sessions on the 29th will feature Marta Tipuici, director of Tecendo Nosso Caminhos e Ãjãi, and André Lopes Neves, director of Ãjãi. Finally, on the 30th, Rose Satiko Hikiji, director of Tabulujá and Woya Hayi Mawe, and André Lopes Neves, director of New York, just another city will be present.

Lecture with Mauricio Terena (PhD student at PPGAS/USP)
Reflections on the Plurinational State

Friday 9/23/2022, 2:30 pm

At the headquarters of CEstA
Rua do Anfiteatro, 181, Colmeia - Favo 8

We invite you all to the event to celebrate the 30th issue of PontoUrbe magazine, Urbe em Foco, next Friday, September 23, at 1 pm. The event will be a hybrid and will take place in the Philosophy and Social Sciences Building at USP, broadcast on the LabNAU-USP channel.
The event will feature guests
José Guilherme Magnani (USP)
Silvana Nascimento (USP)
Ana Letícia de Fiori (UFAC)
Rosana Pinheiro-Machado (ERC).
The event will have as its theme "Editorial consolidation and future challenges for publications in urban anthropology".
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Cycle of preparatory workshops for the 2023 selection for admission to PPGAS/USP

From August 1st to July 6th, 2022, registration will be open to participate in the Cycle of Preparatory Workshops for admission to the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at USP.

The course is conducted by an independent group of students and its purpose is to expand the participation of black, indigenous, quilombola people, who belong to traditional refugee peoples or communities, people with disabilities and trans people in postgraduate courses, especially in courses…

An event held by the Nucleus of Anthropology of Politics (NuAP) celebrates the 20th anniversary of "Intrigues and issues: family revenge and social plots in the sertão of Pernambuco", by Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques. With Moacir Palmeira (UFRJ), Fernanda Peixoto (USP), Natacha Leal (UNIVASF) and Aaron Ansell (Virginia TECH University). 05/08 at 16h. Contact us by email nuap20anos@gmail.com to access the meeting link.