PPGAS News

Luís Michel Françoso (PPGAS-USP) participated in an article by SPTV (Globo) about improper construction in an urban area listed by Conpresp.

Registration is now open for the WG "The challenge of the urban: intersections, resistances, utopias" (coordinated by Graça Cordeiro and Joan Pujadas, with Heitor Frúgoli Jr. as debater) at the next APA congress (Évora, 6-9/9/ 2022, https://apa2022.apantropologia.org/p045/), whose communication must be sent by 3/18/2022, in Portuguese or Spanish, preferably (https://apa2022.apantropologia.org/chamada-comunicacoes/).

Book by Prof. Vagner Gonçalves da Silva about anthropological reports used for the tomb of communities in São Paulo terreiros by Condephaat was featured in Quatro Cinco Um magazine.

We are happy to release the new 11 entries published in the Anthropology Encyclopedia (EA) this semester, including biographical profiles on indigenous intellectuals, anthropologists and anthropologists from Algeria, United States and India, works and concepts, as well as our first subfield entry. The entries will be released throughout this week and the next on our social networks: @ea_antropo (Twitter and Instagram). Help spread the word about EA by sharing it in your study and research groups, also on your lists. Next contributions will be received by the end of March 2022. See the website: ea.fflch.usp.br/

Specialized and open access encyclopedia that brings together content produced by graduate students made the news in FAPESP magazine!
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https://revistapesquisa.fapesp.br/antropologia-em-verbetes/

The film Woya Hayi Mawe - Where are you going?, produced by LISA directed by Rose Satiko Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft and edited by Ricardo Dionisio, received the Honorable Mention in the feature film category, at the Ana Maria Galano award, at the 45th. ANPOCS Annual Meeting. The film and other materials from the anthropologists' research with African artists residing in São Paulo are available at http://www.usp.br/afrosampas

On the program Diversidade em Ciência at Radio Usp FM, Ricardo Alexino Ferreira interviews Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, a professor at the Department of Anthropology at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences at USP.
She talks about the launch of the multimedia site Afro-Sampas, which rescues the resistance of Africans in São Paulo for the recognition of their humanities and citizenship through artistic manifestations. Check this out on this link!

What do African musicians and artists who arrived in São Paulo in recent years bring in their luggage? What impacts do they have on the artistic worlds and on social struggles in the city?

 

The Afro-Sampas website brings together, in films and essays, the music and art that are born from the encounters between Africans and other inhabitants of this megalopolis.

 

Visit and watch the full documentary Woya Hayi Mawe – Where are you going?, starring the Mozambican Lenna Bahule, and the short Tabuluja (Wake up!), with the Congolese Shambuyi Wetu. Also visit Afro-Sampas, the meeting of Lenna, Yannick Delass (Democratic Republic of Congo), Edoh Amassize and Sassou Espoir Ametoglo (Togo) with Brazilians Ari Colares, Chico Saraiva and Meno Del Picchia. Also access photo essays, performance records and more.

 

Afro-Sampas is the result of the project “Making music and African cultural heritage in São Paulo”, developed by anthropologists Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft,… Read more

The book, which has just come out by aba publications label, is available on aba's website: http://www.aba.abant.org.br/publicacoes - the volume titles are organized alphabetically. With this link, you can access directly!