Urpi Montoya Uriarte e Cíntia Beatriz Müller (orgs.), com artigos de José Guilherme Magnani e Heitor Frúgoli Jr.
By connecting mobility and territory, diversity and inequality, the work is situated at the heart of anthropology and its contemporary challenges. Accustomed to understanding villages and ethnic groups as supposedly homogeneous units, anthropology, as it urbanized, sought out relatively closed neighborhoods and groups, but had to confront the mobility of subjects and the porosity of the physical and imaginary borders of cities. It also had to give meaning to the multiple differences in origin, language, and cultural habits among city dwellers, accounting for the emergence of new conflicts and new types of encounters and relationships. Interpersonal and family networks, transportation networks, sacred spaces, all of these networks accessible to ethnographic observation, show us a city that is much more "articulated" than it appears when seen from above and from afar. More than territories, this book encourages us to think about territorializations, because in urban contexts nothing is given in advance, everything is done and undone in the midst of processes.