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Anthropologist was the first PhD in his field at USP (University of São Paulo)
João Baptista Borges Pereira studied racial issues, immigration, and religiosity
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In its seventh episode, the Métis Dialogues program welcomes Sara Munhoz (Unicamp/Geict) and Tone Walford (University College London). The conversation stems from their respective research: the digital tools of the Superior Court of Justice (STJ) and new forms of data policy in international observational science, aimed at measuring, archiving, and managing the planet—the so-called Big Data science. The episode was recorded during the II International Métis Symposium in June 2025.
Professor Guilherme Moura Fagundes (Department of Anthropology – FFLCH/USP) is the guest on the Café da Manhã podcast (Folha de S.Paulo), in an episode about the Sanctuary on the Moon project. This initiative brings together researchers and artists to decide which knowledge and records of life on Earth should comprise an analog library, recorded on 24 microscopic sapphire discs and destined to remain deposited on the Moon. In the conversation, Fagundes presents the workings of the project's interdisciplinary workshops and reflects on the meaning of choosing what "deserves to be saved," the limits of any universal archive, and the consequences of building a sanctuary of knowledge in times of crisis.
Professor Guilherme Moura Fagundes (Department of Anthropology/FFLCH-USP) participated in an international workshop of the Sanctuary on the Moon project, an initiative sponsored by NASA and UNESCO aimed at creating a long-term archive to be deposited on the Moon, composed of 24 sapphire discs containing information about humanity's scientific and cultural heritage.
As a result of this participation, the professor published the essay "Archiving Life in the Age of Collapse" in piauí magazine, presenting the behind-the-scenes aspects of the project and discussing the anthropological and political implications of archiving "memories of Earth" on a more-than-terrestrial scale.
Read the article: https://piaui.folha.uol.com.
The Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (Lisa) at USP has a collection of approximately 2,000 films, 25,000 photographs, and 700 hours of sound recordings.
It functions as a support and promotion center for research, preservation of collections, dissemination, and training in Anthropology.
Share the video with those who need to know about this incredible work: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=itpQhblmrq8
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We would like to announce that the CALL FOR PAPERS for the Dossier "Old Archives, New Questions" of GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound, Journal of Anthropology, from the Department of Anthropology at USP (University of São Paulo), is open until January 31, 2026.
We would like to invite you to submit a paper. Please note that we have several sections in the Journal and that it is possible to submit a paper to the Articles section or the GIS section, which includes texts, essays, or works in video or audio format.
https://revistas.usp.br/gis/announcement/view/1975
Submission deadline: January 31, 2026
DOSSIER Old Archives, New Questions
If in the past, museums, researchers, and collectors primarily created and circulated archives with the aim of presenting "the other," nowadays, more and more records of the past are leaving the technical reserves of institutions, driven not only by those who keep and research them, but also by those who are portrayed in the records or by their relatives… Read more
Film Produced in USP Laboratory Premieres on Social Media
On Black Awareness Day, the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (Lisa) of the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) at USP is making the film “São Palco – Cidade Afropolitana” available on social media.
The film São Palco – Cidade Afropolitana will be available to view on social media starting November 20th, Black Awareness Day. The film is directed by Rose Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft, both from the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (Lisa) of the Department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) at USP.
The film received the Audience Award for Best Feature Film at the 14th Ecofalante Film Festival in June of this year and the Ana Galano Award for best feature film from the National Association of Postgraduate Studies in Social Sciences (Anpocs). The work is the fourth production of the project “Being/Becoming African in Brazil: Musical Practice and African Cultural Heritage in São Paulo,” which was part of the… Read more
The film São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana can now be watched in its entirety on the LISA-USP website and YouTube channel. This LISA-USP production, directed by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, explores the African creative diaspora in São Paulo, showcasing artists such as Shambuyi Wetu and Yannick Delass from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Lenna Bahule from Mozambique, and Edoh Amassize from Togo.
What do these African artists who have arrived in Brazil in recent years carry with them on their journey? How do the African diasporas – the new creative diaspora and the one that turned the Atlantic into a cemetery – interact? What stages are occupied, built, and filled with the performances of artists crossing the ocean? Ancestral realities updated in performances that construct an Afropolitan present in a metropolis where it is necessary to be daring, to color the gray. São Palco – Cidade Afropolitana presents the city of São Paulo as a meta-stage occupied by African artists, in dialogue with the Brazilian population and its openness, contradictions, and… Read more
Ava Cruz Marchese, a student in the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology (PPGAS), won first place in the Serrote Essay Contest, promoted by the Moreira Salles Institute, with her essay "Ritual for a Transvestite Archive".
The full essay is available to read at the following link: https://revistaserrote.com.br/2025/11/ritual-para-um-arquivo-travesti/
The film São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana, directed by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft, and produced in conjunction with the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), received the Ana Maria Galano Award for Best Feature Film during the awards ceremony of the 49th Annual Meeting of ANPOCS.
The film São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana, directed by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft, and produced in collaboration with the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), received the Ana Maria Galano Award for Best Feature Film during the awards ceremony of the 49th Annual Meeting of ANPOCS. The film will be available for one month on the event's website:
https://www.encontro2025.anpocs.org.br/conteudo/view?ID_CONTEUDO=1719
São Palco - Cidade Afropolitana is the fourth film resulting from anthropologists' research with African artists who arrived in Brazil… Read more