Events

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 children. This group of Korubo women exhibits some characteristics described in the discussion on Amerindian chieftainship, such as control over the service of the bride(s) and management of relations with government agents. Based on long-term ethnographic field research, I will present characteristics of the Matxo in dialogue with ethnological discussions on gender and power in the Amazon, with an emphasis on the models of the father-in-law as chief and the father-in-law as chief. The Matxo organize the daily lives and activities of the Korubo, by creating and shaping villages, and influence the life cycle of the Korubo person, from birth to death.
Poster photo: Paulo Mumia. Collection of the Indian Museum/FUNAI – Brazil

08/23/2024, 2:00 p.m.
Anfiteatro Street 181, Colmeia - honeycomb 8
University City - São Paulo - SP

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 ecosystem. 2023. Thesis (Doctorate in Social Anthropology) – Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences, Porto Alegre, 2023.  Chapters 1 and 3

https://www.lume.ufrgs.br/bitstream/handle/10183/265360/001177258.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

Date • August 15, 2024 • Time: 5pm to 6:45pm

Location Social Sciences Building, room 1037 (in the corridor of the Anthropology Department) • Address: Avenida Professor Luciano Gualberto, 315, Cidade Universitária

Target audience The group is open to the entire university community.

Registration Registration can be made by email: almeida.rafaelantunes@gmail.com

Mediation: Rafael Antunes Almeida (Postdoctoral student at the Department of Anthropology at USP and Professor at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusofonia - UNILAB)

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 two Conferences and four Transversal Meetings (ET). Each presentation is expected to explore, based on ethnographic examples and theoretical analyses, aspects related to the guiding idea of ​​the Symposium. In this sense, it is desirable to make an effort to articulate research that initially belongs to different specialties, but that can illuminate each other based on an expanded understanding of the notions of creation and memory. The experimental nature of the adopted format, which the idea of ​​“transversal meetings” seeks to implement, aims not only to cross, mix and metamorphose the thematic axes, but also to unfold new interests and perspectives, on a national and international level, resulting in an event that can contribute to overcoming conventional boundaries of knowledge production in anthropology.

The XI National Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Cemetery Studies (ABEC) seeks to bring together researchers on topics related especially to cemeteries, as well as studies on death, mourning and funerary cultural heritage, among others. The purpose of the meeting is to promote the dissemination of research and strengthen cemetery studies through multidisciplinary approaches from areas such as history, anthropology, architecture, philosophy, arts, sociology, psychology, to name just a few of them. In its eleventh edition, the ABEC National Meeting will have as its theme “The trajectory of Funerary Cultural Heritage in Brazil and the 20 years of activity of ABEC”, and will seek to promote debates on old and new cemetery formats, rites and funeral practices, including also, prospects for the funeral sector.

Study Group: Anthropology of Post-Truth, Denialism and Conspiratorial Formations - 4th 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 texts:

1.FASSIN, Didier. Of plots and men: The heuristics of conspiracy theories.Current Anthropology, vol. 62, no. 2, p. 128-137, 2021.

2.LEPSELTER, Susan. Resonant Apophenia. In: MASCO, Joseph; WEDEEN, Lisa (org.).Conspiracy/Theory. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024. p. 174-189.

Date • July 4, 2024 • Time: 5pm to 7pm

Location • Social Sciences Building, room 1037 (in the corridor of the Anthropology Department) • Address: Avenida Professor Luciano Gualberto, 315, Cidade Universitária - Universidade de São Paulo

Target audience The group is open to the entire university community.

Registration Registration can be made by email: almeida.rafaelantunes@gmail.com

Mediation: Rafael Antunes Almeida (Postdoctoral student at the Department of Anthropology at USP and Professor at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusofonia - UNILAB).

Between July 3rd and 9th, 2024, registration will be open to participate in the Preparatory Workshops for the selection of admission to the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at USP.

The course is based on the project mentoring cycle and is organized by an independent collective of students from the Program and its purpose is to increase the participation of black, indigenous, quilombola people, those who belong to traditional peoples or communities, people with disabilities and trans people in postgraduate studies, especially in Social Anthropology courses.

Up to 100 places will be offered to people belonging to these groups and the activities will be carried out remotely and completely free of charge.

Registration can be made via the link https://forms.gle/yuNXVM9M3qk9hKqX9

If you have any questions, send an email to colectivopreparappgas.usp@gmail.com

Study Group: Anthropology of Post-Truth, Denialism and Conspiratorial Formations - 3rd 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

At the next meeting, the group will discuss the following texts:

1. STEWART, Kathleen; HARDING, Susan. Anxieties of Influence: Conspiracy Theory and Therapeutic Culture in Millennial America. Ilha Revista de Antropologia, Florianópolis, v. 23, no. 3, 2021. https://periodicos.ufsc. br/index.php/ilha/article/view/80899
2. HARAMBAM, J.; AUPERS, S. Contesting epistemic authority: Conspiracy theories on the boundaries of science. Public Understanding of Science, vol. 24, no. 4, p. 466-480, 2015.https://journals.sagepub.com/< wbr />doi/pdf/10.1177/0963662514559891

Date • June 20, 2024 • Time: 5pm to 6:45pm

Location • Social Sciences Building, room 1037 (in the corridor of the Anthropology Department) • Address: Avenida Professor Luciano Gualberto, 315, Cidade Universitária

Target audience The group is open to the entire university community.

Registration Registration can be made by email: almeida.rafaelantunes@gmail.com

Mediation: Rafael Antunes Almeida (Post-doctoral fellow at the Department of Anthropology at USP and Professor at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusofonia - UNILAB)

Sincerely,

Rafael Antunes Almeida

Open class of the course “Approaches in indigenous art”, under the responsibility of Maria Luísa Lucas (Museum of Archeology and Ethnology/USP) and Fernanda Pitta (Museum of Contemporary Art/USP), with Mariana Françozo, from the Faculty of Archeology in Leiden University, Netherlands. The researcher will present her research on indigenous objects in European collections, especially the Nassau cabinet.

Date: 06/19/2024, at 2 pm
Location: Center for Amerindian Studies (CEstA/USP) - Rua do Anfiteatro 181, Colmeia - favo 8 - Cidade Universitária - São Paulo - SP

Achievement:
CESTA USP, MAE USP and MAC USP

Poster image: Wedding ring network designed by the Kamada-Kawai algorithm, in the PAJEK application, superimposed on the photograph by Paulo Luís Eberhardt (OPAN-2022)