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Katherine Dunham" [author], written by Vanessa Cândida Lourenço, https:// ea.fflch.
"Religious Ecstasy: An Anthropological Study of Spirit Possession and Shamanism" [work] by Ioan Myrddin Lewis, written by Lucas Ramos da Cunha, https://ea.fflch.usp.
"Hutukara Associação Yanomami" [institution], written by Corrado Dalmonego, https://ea.fflch.
"Bruno Latour" [author], written by Marisol Marini and André S. Bailão, https://ea.fflch.usp.br/autor/
"Kabengele Munanga" [author], written by Clayton Guerreiro, https://ea.fflch .
"USP Museum of Archeology and Ethnology" [institution], written by Camilo de Mello Vasconcellos https://ea.fflch.usp.br/
"Curt Nimuendajú" [author], written by Peter Schröder https://ea.fflch.usp. br/autor/
"Totemism today" [work] by Claude Lévi-Strauss, written by Camila Galan de Paula https://ea.fflch.usp.br/
On May 5, 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) decreed the end of the Covid-19 Public Health Emergency of International Concern, a little over three years after the same entity announced its beginning. . This epidemiological and political action does not represent the end of the pandemic, but rather that the time has come for countries to make the transition from the emergency mode to the management of diseases along with others of an infectious nature. Upon hearing the news, many people were certainly moved. This reaction is not necessarily related to any change in daily life itself, since we have been resuming our lives for months – thanks to vaccination, it is necessary to emphasize –, but because the Covid-19 pandemic and the way it was conducted, profoundly changed our lives , relationships and subjectivities. Thus, if the Public Health Emergency is over, the effects of the crisis continue in our memories, bodies, in everyday mourning and in collective life.
The Pandemic Echoes podcast aims to reflect on such effects. We started production in 2021, still in a very dramatic period of the crisis. We approach the pandemic in a dual temporality. We brought together multiple voices – researchers, activists, social policy professionals, residents of the periphery and other presences that circulated in the press and social networks – to understand what we were experiencing. Concomitantly, the recent past echoed in an effort to work through our fears, losses, illnesses and the lasting effects of the process, tragic for more than 700,000 people. Thus imposing difficulties to foresee a future.
We start from the Brazilian experience, but with the backdrop of the global South from a mirror game with the South African context. Were social inequalities in countries like Brazil and South Africa intensified with the pandemic? How did the Brazilian Public Health System face Covid-19? How did we come to live with widespread vaccine hesitancy? Why has food insecurity once again become a nightmare for the country? For whom care has become heavier during the pandemic? We seek to build a space for sharing and reflecting on the difficulties, experiences and lessons learned from one of the darkest periods in our history. We also seek to demonstrate how the human sciences, more specifically anthropology, can contribute to coping with the lasting effects of Covid-19. In this sense, the podcast fulfills the role not only of scientific dissemination, but also intends to intervene in the public debate on the subject.
The podcast is available on the PPGAS YouTube channel and on Spotify
The podcast Echoes Pandemics is a product of the university extension project The Covid-19 pandemic from an intersectional perspective in peripheral territories: dialogues between Brazil and South Africa, funded by the Pro-Rectory of Culture University Extension (PRCEU/USP) in the scope of Announcement: ODS-ONU (2021) coordinated by Laura Moutinho, professor at the Social Anthropology Program (PPGAS) at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH) at USP and vice-coordinated by Márcia Thereza Couto, professor at the Department of Preventive Medicine at Faculty of Medicine also at USP, FMUSP. The project was supported by the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA/FFLCH/USP), Center for Social Markers of Difference (NUMAS/FFLCH/USP) and Center for Health, Intersectionality and Social Markers of Difference (SIMAS/FMUSP)
Call for applications for postdoctoral fellowships in the context of the Project "Semantics of creation and memory " FAPESP Process 2020/07886-8 - 03 April - 02 June 2023 Applications are invited for three postdoctoral fellowships in the field of Social Anthropology/AnthropologicalTheory, associated to FAPESP Thematic Project 2020/07886-8 "Semantics of creation and memory", that include research conducted in the most diverse ethnographic fields in Brazil, but not exclusively, from 03 April to 02 June 2023. One fellowship supervised by Professor Fernanda Arêas Peixoto and one fellowship supervised by Professor Ana Claudia Duarte Rocha Marques will be based at the Department of Anthropology at USP; one fellowship supervised by Professor Jorge Luiz Mattar Villela will be based at the Department of Anthropology at UFSCAR.
PhD student Liza Ysamarli Acevedo Sáenz received the USP 2022 Video Graduate Award for the major area of Human Sciences. The video "The homelands, the home and the body: visible and non-visible images of the lives of women who are family members of disappeared people in the armed conflict in Colombia" presents her doctoral research, developed under the supervision of Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji. The award takes place on November 22, 2022, during the 3rd USP Graduate Meeting. The video can be watched at https://www.youtube.com/watch?
PPGAS student Felipe Paes Piva was AWARDED, received 1st place - Lévi-Strauss Prize at the 33rd RBA - Edition 2022: Article Modality, with the article "Psychological illness in graduation and the social markers of difference: an anthropological analysis of psychic suffering at the Faculty of Philosophy, Letters and Human Sciences (FFLCH-USP)”
The seventh volume of GIS - Gesto, Imagem e Som - Journal of Anthropology of the University of São Paulo is on the air.
We invite you to visit the GIS website and learn about the articles, essays, reviews, translations and interviews published in this volume, available at:: https://www.revistas.usp.br/gis/issue/view/12129. In addition, volume 7 pays tribute to Patrícia Monte-Mór, who left us in early 2022.
Good reading!
Four films made by researchers from the Department of Anthropology and PPGAS-USP, with support from the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP), were awarded at the Pierre Verger 2022, promoted by the Brazilian Association of Anthropology - ABA. Carlos Caps Drag Race, directed by Mihai Leaha during his postdoctoral work with the DA, took first place in the Medium Film category. In the same category, Afro-Sampas, directed by Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Hikiji (professor at DA) came in 3rd. place. Canto de Família, co-directed by Paula Bessa and Mihai Leaha, the result of Paula's master's degree at PPGAS USP, came in second in the feature film category. And the short Cybershota, also by Mihai Leaha, came in second in the short film category. The films competing for the award can be watched on the event's website until September 3: https://www.ppv2022.abant.org.br/conteudo/view?ID_CONTEUDO=988
We invite you to submit your work for volume 8 (year 2023) of Revista Gesto, Imagem e Som - Revista de Antropologia (GIS). To do so, make your submission until 08/30/2022.
Check the submission rules at: https://www.revistas.usp.br/gis/about/submissions
After this date, you will also be able to submit your work which, if approved, will be published in volume 9, year 2024.
CALL DOSSIER “WORLDS IN PERFORMANCE: NAPEDRA 20 YEARS”
Deadline for submission of works: August 30, 2022 via the website: https://www.revistas.usp.br/gis
This dossier is one of the offshoots of the Seismology of Performance: Napedra 20 Years event, held between November 22 and December 10, 2021. Created in 2001, Napedra – USP's Anthropology, Performance and Drama Center – arises from the meeting of anthropologists in search of knowledge produced in art workshops, with artists in search of knowledge associated with the craft of anthropologists. It resonates with the sounds and noises of a “performative turn” in anthropology, which began in the 1970s, and is updated in surprising ways here and now. Between the arts and sciences, the concept of performance takes on varied, changing and hybrid forms. There is something unresolved in this concept that resists definitive formulations and disciplinary boundaries. In 1977, one of the gravitational centers of an emerging field emerged in the universe of anthropology. Victor Turner, an anthropologist in search of knowledge of the performing arts, meets Richard Schechner, a theater director who, in his relationship with Turner, deepens his knowledge of anthropology. It is, in Napedra's experience, a luminous point that serves as a reference for one of the constellations of performance studies, in an expanding and decentered universe. Horizons widen, subverting notions of field and space, and imploding conceptions of time. Attention turns to the body. From the senses of the body, the senses of worlds are created and f(r)icated. In performance, worlds are formed and transformed. In noise, residues and structurally remote elements, seismic movements, irruption and formation of emerging worlds are detected. In the whirlpools of your creation are worlds that have not yet come to be. Above all, what drives Napedra participants, in partnerships with researchers from other research groups in Brazil and overseas, are the prospects of exploring some of the whirlpools of worlds in performance.
For instructions and guidelines on submissions, consult the GIS website - Gesto, Imagem e Som - Revista de Antropologia.