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Three films made by researchers from PPGAS-USP received the Pierre Verger award at the 32nd. Brazilian Anthropology Meeting.

The Pierre Verger Award (PPV) for ethnographic films, from the Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA) and the Visual Anthropology Committee (CAV), was created in 1996 and now, in 2020, celebrates its 24th anniversary. The inclusion of the award for photo-ethnographic essays appeared a few years later, in 2002, and completes 18 years in this edition.

The films are available until 11/06 on the award website: https://ppv.abant.org.br/filmes/

Woya Hayi Mawe - Where are you going?, by Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji (DA teacher) and Jasper Chalcraft, received the award for best medium film.
Click here to check out the movie (you must register on the website).

Monocultura da Fé, by Joana… leia mais

Three students from the Social Sciences course at FFLCH-USP received the Lévi-Strauss award at the 32nd. Brazilian Anthropology Meeting.

The Lévi-Strauss Award is an initiative of the Brazilian Association of Anthropology in honor of Claude Lévi-Strauss's contribution to Anthropology and aims to stimulate new careers and give visibility to the original and high-quality academic production developed during graduation.

Poster mode:

Kelwin Marques Garcia dos Santos
Advisor: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji
The constitution of the body and the locality in maracatu de baque virado: an approach based on multimodal anthropology.
Presentation link of Kelwin's work during the award.

Laila Zilber Kontic
Advisor: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
The Yanomami… leia mais

Three films produced with the support of LISA are competing for the Pierre Verger Award at ABA this year, between October 26th and 30th!

Are they:
Ãjãí. The head game of Myky and Manoki by André Lopes and Typju Myky - Check out the Trailer!
New York, another city by André Lopes and Joana Brandão - Check out the Trailer!
Woya Hayi Mawe - Where are you going? by Rose Satiko G. Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft - Check out the Trailer!

The Pierre Verger Award (PPV) for ethnographic films, from the Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA) and the Visual Anthropology Committee (CAV), was created in 1996 and now, in 2020,… leia mais

Two undergraduate research carried out under the guidance of professors from the Department of Anthropology are finalists in the VIII Lévi-Strauss Award of the 32nd ABA meeting.
See on the event website

Kelwin Marques Garcia dos Santos
The constitution of the body and the locality in the maracatu de baque virado.

Advisor: Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji

Research presentation video: https://youtu.be/H9oyZlxWqvI

Laila Zilber Kontic
The Yanomami and shamanism… leia mais

Mobilization of CEstA-USP against the genocide of indigenous peoples in the pandemic of the new coronavirus

In dozens of villages in the Indigenous Lands and indigenous neighborhoods in Brazilian cities, an increasing number of deaths and cases of illness by covid-19 have been recorded. In a political scenario marked by the State's omission due to the high lethality rate of the disease among indigenous peoples, the indigenous movement and its organizations have been reacting to the situation in a forceful way and calling their partners to joint action.
Responding to this situation, CEstA-USP opens a space for its national and international network of indigenous and non-indigenous researchers and other partners, in order to share reflections, reports and information materials on regional situations and support initiatives. The objective is to monitor and document the development of the pandemic among indigenous peoples, paying attention to violations of rights, given… leia mais

The documentary Afrosampas, by professors Jasper Chalcraft and Rose Satiko Hikiji will be shown at In-Edit Brasil - International Music Documentary Festival! The festival takes place online, from 10/09 to 20/09 on the platform In-Edit-Brasil.com.

African artists who migrated to São Paulo talk about their artistic experiences and their relationship with their new surroundings.

Check out this link for the movie teaser!

GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal welcomes articles, photo/sound/ audiovisual/literary essays, translations, interviews and reviews on an ongoing basis.
The anthropology of expressive forms (image, sound, performance, literature and art) is the focus of the journal.

Guidelines for authors may be found on journal's website.
Deadline: October 4th, 2020

Volume 6 will also include Dossier "Local Musicking"
The notion of local musicking has received attention in the field of ethnomusicology. In recent years, a series of initiatives (congresses, research projects, books, dossiers, etc.) has been carried out in order to develop this concept within the scope of the study of musical knowledge and practices. This expression… leia mais

Check out the 3 films produced / supported by LISA:
- Marruá in the Amazon: street theater, river and forest
- Piragui. The owner of the fish
- Tabuluja (Wake up!))

https://mostraarandu.blog/filmes-selecionados/

THE III ARANDU ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM SHOW WILL HAPPEN TOTALLY ONLINE BETWEEN AUGUST 24 AND OCTOBER 16, 2020.

The virtual conference of the III Mostra Arandu of Ethnographic Films organized by the research group AVAEDOC (Visual Anthropology, Arts, Ethnography and Documentaries) was invited by Professor Sylvia Caiuby Novaes.
Conference broadcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO7… leia mais

Dear readers,
GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound. - Journal of Anthropology has just published its fifth volume!
available in http://www.revistas.usp.br/gis/issue/view/11518

We invite you to browse the magazine's summary to access articles and other items of interest.

ARTICLES

·Movies like things in colonial India
Marcus Banks

·… leia mais

The documentary "New York, just another city", directed by LISA-USP researcher, André Lopes, and by UFSB professor, Joana Brandão, was awarded an honorable mention in the "Best Short Competition", a short film festival that takes place a decade ago in Los Angeles. The 19-minute film is about a "reverse anthropology" made from the perspective of Guarani filmmaker, Patrícia Ferreira, on her visit to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. The short film was produced in 2019 in a partnership between the Center for Media, Culture and History at the University of New York and the Image and Sound Laboratory at the University of São Paulo, where it was completed by Ricardo Dionísio. For those who want to check it out, the documentary will be available from May 26th to 31st in one of CachoeiraDoc's curators, in its virtual edition: Festival Impossible, Provisional Curatorship - on the website leia mais