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Deadline for submission of abstracts to the Working Groups extended until June 16

In response to several requests, the Organizing Committee of the IX National Meeting on Anthropology of Law has extended the deadline for submission of abstracts to the Working Groups until June 16, 2025. Take advantage of this new opportunity to present your research in this space for dialogue between Anthropology and Law.

The complete guidelines for submission are detailed in the announcement, availableby clicking here. Submissions must be made using the Job Proposer Form, available in the…

The Collective of Anthropology, Environment, and Biotechnodiversity (CHAMA) is pleased to invite you to the lecture "Steps toward an Anthropology of Life," with Perig Pitrou, professor at the Collège de France and researcher at the CNRS. The event will take place at the Tomie Ohtake Institute on Friday, August 22, from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM, and will feature simultaneous translation.

By explaining how life can become an object of investigation for anthropology—and not just for the life sciences—this lecture will present the project of a "general pragmatics of life" developed in the…

Lecture with Prof. Selnich Vivas Hurtado (University of Antioquia, Medellín)
Ábɨ iémo Ábɨ [Body is Territory]: A Poetics of the Vegetal Experience

Selnich Vivas Hurtado (1971) is a writer and professor of Indigenous and Afro-descendant literatures in Colombia, at the University of Antioquia, Medellín. For over twenty years, he has shared his experience with the Múrui-Múina culture of the Amazon, where he learned the Mɨnɨka language and ancestral chants. His poetry has been written and published in Spanish, German, and Mɨnɨka. In 2011, he received the National Poetry Prize for…

We are pleased to extend an invitation to the lecture "Anthropology of Astrobiology," with Perig Pitrou, professor at the Collège de France and researcher at the CNRS, which will take place at the Maison du CNRS (USP, Butantã Campus), on Friday of next week (August 15, 2025), from 2:30 PM to 4:30 PM.

The event is a joint effort by the IRL Mundos em Transição (CNRS/USP) and the Anthropology, Environment, and Biodiversity Collective (CHAMA/USP), with support from the José Luiz Setúbal Foundation, PPGAS-USP, and CAPES. Professor Perig Pitrou's visit to Brazil is part of the II Winter…

Registration is open from August 4th to 7th for the short course "Anthropology of Life: An Introduction," taught by Prof. Perig Pitrou (Collège de France/CNRS) from August 11th to 14th. The course will address the main contemporary anthropological perspectives on the notion of life, with an emphasis on its epistemological, political, and ontological implications. Themes ranging from Amerindian ethnology to studies on biopolitics, science, and ecology will be explored, offering a comparative overview of how different cultures conceive, organize, and value life…

The objective of the course is to provide an anthropological and historical overview of the native populations of the east-west coast, especially those of Ceará, during colonial Brazil. Specifically, the course is organized around four axes: possible tools for analyzing these populations; presentation of representations of these populations in selected bibliographies; discussion of indigenous contacts with Europeans and the development of colonization; and, finally, elements on the construction of relationships between these populations in the region.…

LETEC - Ethnographic Laboratory of Technological and Digital Studies and Numas - Center for Studies on Social Markers of Difference invite you to the lecture "Having a party is a war: weddings, conflicts and social ties from an Anthropology of Instability", with professor. Dr. Michele Escoura (UFPA).
The event will take place on July 4th, at 3 pm, in room 24 (Social Sciences building) and online, with transmission by the FFLCH channel.

About the speaker: Michele Escoura is an anthropologist and Professor at the Federal University of Pará (UFPA) in the School of Social…

Lecture "Introducing Stellenbosch University (South Africa) and its approach to Comprehensive Internationalization", by Sarah Van der Westhuizen, director of the Centre for Global Engagement at Stellenbosch University.

The lecture will take place this Wednesday, July 2nd, at 10:30 am, in auditorium 024, in the Philosophy and Social Sciences Building/FFLCH-USP.
 

The CHAMA Anthropology Collective is holding a seminar entitled “Seeking ‘the best of both worlds’: how a black truffle hunting dog is made in Chile.”

In this presentation, Luísa Fanaro will discuss the practices of preparing human-canine pairs for hunting black truffles (Tuber melanosporum) in Chile. Based on an ethnography conducted during her doctoral research, defended in the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology at UFSCAR, the author shows that this process depends on a dual dynamic of communication: between dogs and truffles — an underground fungus — and between dogs and…

In Brazil, as in other dimensions of the Highlands and Lowlands of the Amerindian scenario and context, each indigenous ethnic group has a specific, particular, independent and interdependent model of social organization guided by ethnic-wide methodologies that allow for a life followed by self-identification. Therefore, from the point of view of the ethnic scenario of Brazilian indigenous cultures, patrilineal systems and matrilineal systems prevailed as the foundations of self-identification of an ethnic group. More than being systems, they are in fact educational methods of a…