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"New York, another city", a film by Brazilian anthropologists and documentary filmmakers André Lopes (phD candidate PPGAS-USP) and Joana Brandão (UFSB), was awarded last Saturday, March 27, with the award for best documentary short at the international ethnographic film festival of the Royal Anthropological Institute (RAI). The film was awarded the Marsh Short Film Prize which awards "the most outstanding short documentary in anthropology or archaeology", according to the festival's words. RAI is one of the largest and most important ethnographic film festivals in the world, having received film entries from 75 countries in 2021. The film was the only Brazilian work awarded at the festival.
"New York, another city" (2019, 18 min) recounts the experience of Brazilian indigenous…
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Volume 2 of the journal Trajectoria of the National Museum of Ethnology (Minpaku) in Osaka (Japan) has just been published. The volume, organized by Mihai Leaha, postdoctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at USP, is titled "Confronting Museums: Collaboration, Reception, and Experiment in "Tabuluja (Wake Up!)" and "New York, just another city". Two films made by researchers from the Department of Anthropology of USP are part of the volume, which also brings a discussion with the directors and protagonists, André Lopes Neves, phD student at PPGAS-USP, Joana Brandão and Patrícia Ferreira Pará Yxapy (New York, just another city) and Rose Satiko Hikiji, professor in the Department of Anthropology, Jasper Chalcraft and Shambuyi Wetu (Tabuluja - Wake up!). …
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Instigated by the intelligible and sensitive religious knowledge of traditional religions and the various forms of spiritual belonging that escape the formal religious structure, but connect the human being with what he calls sacred, we seek in this dossier to build a map of the representations that pass through their images, their performances that reveal rituals and sacred belongings.The expressive forms gain different nuances in religious spaces, in view of certain restrictions, which means that the researcher has to resort to different aesthetic and research strategies to compose his universe imagetic and performative. & nbsp; The symbolic universe of…
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Professor Kabengele Munanga gave an interview to the Program Conversations to the South (RTP Africa)
"Some young black people are already entering university, that's the big change, but overall the situation of the black population is largely marginalization. They are underrepresented in all sectors of national life," he said: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDJWJQhC2ms
In addition to Anthropology, other three areas of FFLCH are among the top 50 in the world. Click here to check it out.
Completing five years of existence, the Encyclopedia of Anthropology - http://ea.fflch.usp.br - has just acquired ISSN - 2676-038X (online). In addition, the EA website was updated and improved, and the editorial board expanded, with the incorporation of colleagues from UNICAMP, UNIFESP, UFSCAR and UNESP- Arar. The Encyclopedia is also found on Facebook and Twitter.
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The Department of Anthropology and the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology congratulate sane. Manuela Carneiro da Cunha for the Award for Academic Recognition in Human Rights awarded to her by Unicamp - Vladimir Herzog Institute, for her interdisciplinary work for cultural diversity, security environmental conservation, with emphasis on the enhancement of cultural heritage and knowledge of indigenous peoples and safeguarding the rights of future generations.
Productions of the students of the anthropology and music course are on the instagram Antropologia20x20. The publications have the format of 20 slides of 20 seconds addressing topics researched by students in 2020. Take a look!
The film Afro-Sampas, directed by Rose Satiko Hikiji and Jasper Chalcraft and produced at the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) received the award for best feature film at the 44th annual meeting of ANPOCS. See the movie teaser here.
