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The USP Open Books Portal published the e-book " Black cinema: From Africa to the diaspora – the anti-racist thought of Kabengele Munanga", by Celso Luiz Prudente, Rogério de Almeida (Organizer).
To access the other titles: USP Open Books Portal.
Link to the interview with professor Heloisa Buarque de Almeida about her Free Teaching thesis: https://jornal. usp.br/podcast/
"Katherine Dunham" [author], written by Vanessa Cândida Lourenço, https ://ea.fflch.
"Religious ecstasy: an anthropological study of spirit possession and shamanism" [work] by Ioan Myrddin Lewis, written by Lucas Ramos da Cunha, https://ea.fflch.usp.
"Hutukara Associação Yanomami" [institution], written by Corrado Dalmonego, … Read more
Gabriela Leal talks about her book "Cidade: modos de ler, usar & se apropriar. A São Paulo do graffiti" (S, Paulo, Ed. Funilaria, 2023) at: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4BTtHF3NL4ZLsfknKm6tKF?si=dn8vdXIrQGawUPlI_IyzmQ&nd=1
On May 5, 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) decreed the end of the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency of International Concern, a little over three years after the same entity announced its beginning. . This epidemiological and political action does not represent the end of the pandemic, but rather that the time has come for countries to make the transition from the emergency mode to the management of diseases along with others of an infectious nature. Upon hearing the news, many people were certainly moved. This reaction is not necessarily related to any change in daily life itself, since we have been resuming our lives for months – thanks to vaccination, it is necessary to emphasize –, but because the Covid-19 pandemic and the way it was conducted, profoundly changed our lives , relationships and subjectivities. Thus, if the Public Health Emergency is over, the effects of the crisis continue in our memories, bodies, in everyday mourning and in collective life.
The Pandemic Echoes podcast aims to reflect on such effects. We started production in 2021, still in a… Read more
Call for applications for postdoctoral fellowships in the context of the Project "Semantics of creation and memory " FAPESP Process 2020/07886-8 - 03 April - 02 June 2023 Applications are invited for three postdoctoral fellowships in the field of Social Anthropology/AnthropologicalTheory, associated to FAPESP Thematic Project 2020/07886-8 "Semantics of creation and memory", that include research conducted in the most diverse ethnographic fields in Brazil, but not exclusively, from 03 April to 02 June 2023. One fellowship supervised by Professor Fernanda Arêas Peixoto and one fellowship supervised by Professor Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques will be based at the Department of Anthropology at USP; one fellowship supervised by Professor Jorge Luiz Mattar Villela will be based at the Department of Anthropology at UFSCAR.
PhD student Liza Ysamarli Acevedo Sáenz received the USP 2022 Video Graduate Award for the major area of Human Sciences. The video "The homelands, the home and the body: visible and non-visible images of the lives of women who are family members of disappeared people in the armed conflict in Colombia" presents her doctoral research, developed under the supervision of Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji. The award takes place on November 22, 2022, during the 3rd USP Graduate Meeting. The video can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/watch?
Seminar "Research Ethics in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Challenges for Anthropology" available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?