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The Excluded Third
In view of the new forays from biology into the Humanities, this book aims not only to demonstrate the inconsistencies of the theory of evolution in addressing cultural dynamics, but also to offer an alternative that begins from a resumption of the dialogue between anthropology and historical materialism in which dialectics reintroduces itself to anthropology from different premises and the role of symbolic language within materialism is reevaluated.
Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil
Ayahuasca is a psychoactive drink used for healing and divination among religious groups in the Brazilian Amazon. 'Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil' is the first scholarly volume in English to examine the religious rituals and practices surrounding ayahuasca. The use of ayahuasca among religious groups is analysed, alongside Brazilian public policies regarding ayahuasca and the handling of substance dependence. 'Ayahuasca, Ritual and Religion in Brazil' will be of interest to scholars of anthropology and religion and all those interested in the role of stimulants in religious practice.
The Other Roots
First published in 1936, the classic work Roots of Brazil by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda presented an analysis of why and how a European culture flourished in a large tropical environment that was totally foreign to its traditions, and the manner and consequences of this development. In The Other Roots, Pedro Meira Monteiro contends that Roots of Brazil is an essential work for understanding Brazil and the current impasses of politics in Latin America. Meira Monteiro demonstrates that the ideas expressed in Roots of Brazil have taken on new forms and helped to construct some of the most lasting images of the country, such as the "cordial man," a central concept that expresses the Ibero-Americ...
Form and Feeling
A significant contribution on the development and aftermath of post–World War II Concretism in Brazil Form and Feeling features a collection of essays by noted scholars exploring the sensorial, experience-based, and participatory practices pioneered in the 1950s by artists and poets such as Flávio de Carvalho, Ivan Serpa, Hélio Oiticica, Haroldo de Campos, Mary Vieira, Lygia Pape, Anna Maria Maiolino, Lygia Clark, Waly Salomão, and Emil Forman, among many others. Fourteen thought-provoking essays examine how many of their strategies constituted a pertinent critique of the country’s wide-ranging embrace of Eurocentric modernity while anticipating a number of practices prevalent among c...
On the Emic Gesture
Roy Wagner’s work deals with two fundamental issues in anthropology: how to describe difference, and where to place it in anthropological discourse. His discussion and displacement of anthropological concepts such as ‘group’ and ‘culture’ in the 1970s and 1980s have arguably encouraged a deconstructive undertaking in the discipline. Yet Wagner’s work, although part of the radicalizing move of the 1970s and 1980s in anthropology, was until some years ago not a central reference for anthropological theory. The question Dulley asks throughout her engagement with Wagner’s main essays is whether it is possible for the emic gesture to account for difference within difference without ...
Ayahuasca Religions
The last two decades have seen a broad expansion of the ayahuasca religions, and it has also witnessed, especially since the millennium, an explosion of studies into the spiritual uses of ayahuasca. Ayahuasca Religions grew out of the need for an ordering of the profusion of titles related to this subject that are now appearing. This publication offers a map of the global production of literature on this theme. Three researchers located in different cities (Beatriz Caiuby Labate in São Paulo, Rafael Guimarães dos Santos in Barcelona, and Isabel Santana de Rose in Florianapolis, Brazil) worked in a virtual research group for a year to compile a list of bibliographical references on Santo Da...
Darcy Ribeiro, uma Utopia
Os oito ensaios de Darcy Ribeiro, uma Utopia buscam avaliar o legado da obra do intelectual e do político e sua pertinência do ponto de vista contemporâneo, do século XXI. Derivados de um seminário no contexto de uma grande exposição celebrando o centenário de seu nascimento, os textos não são homenagens, no entanto, mas reavaliações críticas que levam em conta erros e acertos e o contexto histórico tumultuado em que Darcy foi forçado a atuar – com foco em suas realizações na área da educação (criador das universidade de Brasília e Estadual do Norte Fluminense, dos Cieps no Rio de Janeiro e um dos autores da Lei das Diretrizes e Bases da Educação; ajudou a implantar ...
Vozes vegetais
Uma lição a aprender nesta virada do século XXI é a de que não é mais possível negar as consequências das ações dos seres humanos para o planeta como um todo. Uma nova relação com as plantas se faz urgente. O que temos a aprender com elas? Ouvir as vozes vegetais é o primeiro passo para vegetar com elas. Vegetar é crescer em contiguidade com o mundo, engajar-nos com aquilo que nos circunda. Esse é o fio condutor dos ensaios, depoimentos e poemas reunidos aqui. 17 textos de um filósofo, uma botânica, uma arqueóloga e um arqueólogo, uma agricultora e agrônoma, um agrônomo, antropólogas e antropólogos, cientistas sociais, pensadores indígenas e uma poeta, que dão um pan...
Saudades do mundo
Nos textos reunidos em Saudades do mundo, a Antropofagia é tomada como um conceito ampliado, tanto no tempo quanto em sua compreensão teórica. Partindo da proposta de Oswald de Andrade — mas incluindo aproximações ao tema que vão de Joaquim de Sousândrade a Eduardo Viveiros de Castro —, Eduardo Sterzi constrói um arrojado projeto intelectual que revisita e amplia as discussões gestadas em nosso modernismo.
