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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 through Claudia Andujar's photographs
Advisor: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes

Research presentation video: https://youtu.be/hDTz-WsGrfU

The Lévi-Strauss Award is an initiative of the Brazilian Association of Anthropology that aims to stimulate new careers and give visibility to the original and high-quality academic production at graduation, including results from research projects, extension, teaching initiation and other academic initiatives. Currently, the award is in its eighth edition and, at the 32nd RBA, it will be held entirely in a virtual manner.

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 the risk of imminent genocide. We also want to give visibility to local perspectives and solutions, in addition to building a memory space for victims of the covid-19.

In this way, CEstA-USP pays tribute to families and communities that have been losing dear relatives affected by the disease, and expresses its support to those who are currently struggling without the slightest recourse to recover the health of their patients and to guarantee the recommended conditions. health authorities to prevent and cope with the new coronavirus.

Civil mobilization to guarantee the constitutional right of indigenous peoples to health is necessary as never before. This urgency stems from the deliberate and criminal paralysis of the current government in guaranteeing fundamental rights and promoting effective public policies for one of the most vulnerable segments of Brazilian society.

We therefore invite CEstA's network of employees to share materials of various kinds, such as support and fundraising initiatives and campaigns; reports on the situations faced by indigenous people across the country; reflections on the pandemic; or texts in honor of victims of the covid-19. They are being collected and published on this special page:

https://amerindios.wixsite.com/acao

 Contributions to this information, reflection and memory network can be shared at cestausp.covid19@gmail.com, with the subject “Indigenous and covid-19”.

Commission “Indigenous peoples in front of covid-19”
Coordination of CEstA-USP
Profª. Drª. Marta Rosa Amoroso

Researchers from CEstA-USP
Karen Shiratori
Lauriene Seraguza
Luísa Valentini
Rafael Pacheco
Tatiane Klein

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 unites the concept of "musicking" - as proposed by Christopher Small's - with the notion of locality, encompassing considerations of Arjun Appadurai and Ruth Finnegan. Musicking is used to refer to any form of engagement with music, including not only its formal aspects but also performances, discussions about music and sound, musical enjoyment, etc. Considering musicking as a local practice implies that musical activities are built locality and locals are musically built. This dossier seeks to gather contributions (articles, audio / visual essays, reviews, interviews, translations) that work with the notion of local musicking and its interfaces, discussing whether specific ethnographic cases from which this notion gains light or theoretical discussions on this concept.  

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EDITORIAL TEAM
Chief Editor: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
Editorial Coordinator: Paula Morgado
Responsible Editor vol 5: Andrea Barbosa
Executive Secretary: Lucas Ramiro
Trainee: Leonardo Pereira dos Santos
 
Editorial Committee: Andrea Barbosa, Edgar Teodoro da Cunha, Érica Giesbrecht, Francirosy Campos Barbosa, John Cowart Dawsey, Paula Morgado, Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, Vitor Grunvald

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-ud-jI3E

Check the complete schedule of the III MANDRA ARANDU through the link: https://mostraarandu.blog/2020/08/20/programacao-geral-2/

SEPTEMBER 06:

Marruá in the Amazon: street theater, river and forest; 52 - direction: Carolina Abreu

Seu Pernambuco; 12 ’- direction: Lisabete Coradini, Maria Ângela Pavan, Ygor Felipe

Closed sign - Show time, show time !; 55 ’- direction: Jocilene Ramos Bastos and Nilson Almino de Freitas

Tabuluja (Wake up!); 21 ’- direction: Shambuyi Wetu, Rose Satiko Hikiji, Jasper Chalcraft

OCTOBER 11TH:

The dust of time: figures and legends of the foundation of the gaucho land; 55 ’- direction: Ana Luiza Carvalho da Rocha

Piragui. The owner of the fish; 21 ’- direction: Luiza Calagian

The water book; 72 ’- direction: Marco Antonio Gonçalves

Vitalino's house / Alto do Moura; 22 '- direction: Glauco Fernandes Machado

Organizing Committee

Collective AVAEDOC (Visual Anthropology, Arts, Ethnographies and Documentaries)

Cíntia Di Giorgi / Gabriela Salatini / Glauco Machado / João Mendonça / João Vitor Velame / José Muniz Falcão Neto / Oswaldo Giovannini Jr./ Rafaella Sualdini

Arandu film shows: https://arandumostra.wordpress.com/

AVAEDOC's website:  https://avaedoc.blog/

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

EDITORIAL TEAM
Chief Editor: Sylvia Caiuby Novaes
Editorial Coordinator: Paula Morgado
Responsible Editor vol 5: Andrea Barbosa
Executive Secretary: Lucas Ramiro
Trainee: Leonardo Pereira dos Santos
 
Editorial Committee: Andrea Barbosa, Edgar Teodoro da Cunha, Érica Giesbrecht, Francirosy Campos Barbosa, John Cowart Dawsey, Paula Morgado, Rose Satiko Gitirana Hikiji, Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, Vitor Grunvald

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 www.cachoeiradoc.com.br.

Movie trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raMMGOBxmZY&t=3s

Calls to n. 6 of the Gesture, Image and Sound- Anthropology Journal are now open. Submit your work by Sep 1, 2020!
www.revistas.usp.br/gis