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.
Theme of the meeting
Contemporary ethnographies on witchcraft and its resonances in the literature on post-truth
The group will discuss the following texts:
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FIGUEIREDO, Daniel de Jesus. What do denialisms deny? Management of the occult and production of truth based on an ethnography of politics in northern Mozambique. Anuário Antropológico, v. 48, n. 2, p. 82-101, 2023.
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BONHOMME, Julien. The dangers of anonymity: Witchcraft, rumor, and modernity in Africa. HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, v. 2, no. 2, p. 205-233, 2012.
https://doi.org/10.14318/hau2.2.012
Date: October 31, 2024
Time: 5:00 p.m. to 6:45 p.m.
Location: Social Sciences Building, room 26A
Address: Avenida Professor Luciano Gualberto, 315, Cidade Universitária
Target audience
The group is open to the entire university community.
Registration
Registration can be done by email: almeida.rafaelantunes@gmail.
Mediation:
Rafael Antunes Almeida
Post-doctoral student at the Department of Anthropology (USP)
Professor at the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB)