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Urban Imaginaries in Native Amazonia
Urban life has long intrigued Indigenous Amazonians, who regard cities as the locus of both extraordinary power and danger. Modern and ancient cities alike have thus become models for the representation of extreme alterity under the guise of supernatural enchanted cities. This volume seeks to analyze how these ambiguous urban imaginaries—complex representations that function as cognitive tools and blueprints for social action—express a singular view of cosmopolitical relations, how they inform and shape forest-city interactions, and the history of how they came into existence. Featuring analysis from historical, ethnological, and philosophical perspectives, contributors seek to explain the imaginaries’ widespread diffusion, as well as their influence in present-day migration and urbanization. Above all, it underscores how these urban imaginaries allow Indigenous Amazonians to express their concerns about power, alterity, domination, and defiance. Contributors Natalia Buitron Philippe Erikson Emanuele Fabiano Fabiana Maizza Daniela Peluso Fernando Santos-Granero Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen Robin M. Wright
Crafting in the World
This volume expands understandings of crafting practices, which in the past was the major relational interaction between the social agency of materials, technology, and people, in co-creating an emergent ever-changing world. The chapters discuss different ways that crafting in the present is useful in understanding crafting experiences and methods in the past, including experiments to reproduce ancient excavated objects, historical accounts of crafting methods and experiences, craft revivals, and teaching historical crafts at museums and schools. Crafting in the World is unique in the diversity of its theoretical and multidisciplinary approaches to researching crafting, not just as a set of ...
Etnografias urbanas
A proposta deste livro, contudo, não é apresentar respostas definitivas; afinal, não existe só uma forma de fazer etnografia – trata-se de um método reconhecido por sua flexibilidade e capacidade criativa diante de situações que exigem uma constante atualização. Mas, ao revisitar conceitos e abordagens clássicas e contemporâneas, descrever procedimentos e estratégias de pesquisa "de perto e de dentro" e apresentar algumas experiências realizadas dentro e fora dos muros das universidades esperamos instigar pesquisadores/ as e estudantes, de diferentes áreas e disciplinas, a desenvolver novos experimentos etnográficos.
Paisagens ameríndias
A riqueza e a complexidade da vida dos habitantes que se cruzam na região amazônica foram pesquisadas nas áreas de etnologia, história indígena e antropologia urbana. Este livro apresenta o resultado desses estudos.
La Educación (Física) en disputa
El colectivo de colegas está integrado por veintiún autores con vasto reconocimiento nacional e internacional, de España, México, Brasil y Argentina. Han transitado la multiplicidad de prácticas en la Enseñanza de la Educación Física, la investigación y la producción académica, en particular la formación en el nivel Superior, poniendo a disposición a lo largo de dieciocho artículos, una franca invitación a repensar lo dado y desnaturalizar verdades instaladas como irrefutables. Desde esta posición, el libro piensa y propone diálogo con el lector. Desde la tensión y mutua alimentación entre oposiciones y rupturas discursivas, lejos de dualismos en términos de exclusión. D...
Conocimiento, ambiente y poder
El libro Conocimiento, ambiente y poder. Perspectivas desde la ecología política es la segunda obra de la Red de Estudios Sobre Sociedad y Medio Ambiente (RESMA), la cual congrega a más de una docena de investigadores pertenecientes a diferentes instituciones académicas del país y del extranjero. Entre 2012 y 2016, discutimos y analizamos: ¿en qué medida las percepciones de la naturaleza son moldeadas por el conocimiento? ¿Qué tipo de conocimientos son legitimados en los procesos contenciosos o conflictivos? ¿Cuál es el papel del poder en la definición de los procesos sociales que intervienen en el cambio ambiental?
Wayfinding
At once far flung and intimate, a fascinating look at how finding our way make us human. "A marvel of storytelling." —Kirkus (Starred Review) In this compelling narrative, O'Connor seeks out neuroscientists, anthropologists and master navigators to understand how navigation ultimately gave us our humanity. Biologists have been trying to solve the mystery of how organisms have the ability to migrate and orient with such precision—especially since our own adventurous ancestors spread across the world without maps or instruments. O'Connor goes to the Arctic, the Australian bush and the South Pacific to talk to masters of their environment who seek to preserve their traditions at a time when...
Lazer de perto e de dentro
Este livro se insere no âmbito do Congresso Mundial de Lazer, realizado em São Paulo, em agosto de 2018, com o tema "Lazer sem restrições". Orientados pela postura teórico-metodológica sintetizada na expressão "de perto e de dentro", os artigos apresentam um encontro entre lazer e antropologia para refletir sobre temas como arte, esporte, formas de sociabilidade e ocupação urbana.
Da periferia ao centro
Pode a Antropologia, com os conceitos e métodos de análise forjados ao longo de pesquisas em sociedades de pequena escala, desvendar a complexidade dos atuais aglomerados urbanos em toda sua diversidade? Neste livro, o autor reconstitui linhagens e trajetórias de etnografias nas metrópoles, apresentando categorias de análise e demonstrando a relevância e atualidade desses estudos no quadro teórico e metodológico da Antropologia Urbana.
Key Debates in Anthropology
Every year, leading social anthropologists meet to debate a motion at the heart of current theoretical developments in their subject and this book includes the first six of these debates, spanning the period from 1988 to 1993. Each debate has four principal speakers: one to propose the motion, another to oppose it, and two seconders. The first debate addresses the disciplinary character of social anthropology: can it be regarded as a science, and if so, is it able to establish general propositions about human culture and social life? The second examines the concept of society, and in the third debate the spotlight is turned on the role of culture in people's perception of their environments....
