On October 3, 2025, at 4 p.m., the Métis Convida edition will feature François Michel Le Tourneau, director of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS USP), who will discuss his research on mining, a world that is simultaneously a place of forest destruction and the creation of economic wealth. Using field data on the workings of the mining world and numerous interviews with miners, the speaker will reflect on these individuals' attitudes toward these two points (or poles), highlighting the non-linearity of the relationship to time, the ambiguous knowledge of the forest, and the specificity of the wealth/income creation model.
Suggested Readings:
- Brazilian illegal gold miners resilience in French Guiana: The garimpo as an economic and social system
- Le « système garimpeiro » et la Guyane : l’orpaillage clandestin contemporain en Amazonie français
The event is organized within the scope of the thematic project Métis - Arts and Semantics of Creation and Memory, funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP), and aims to bridge different subfields within Anthropology through the notion of creation, understood in a broader sense. The event will take place in the auditorium of the Image and Sound Laboratory in Anthropology (LISA-USP), located at Rua do Anfiteatro, No. 181, Favo/Room 10, Cidade Universitária, SP. Free admission, subject to space limitations. No registration required