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Revista Brasileira de Direitos Fundamentais & Justiça

Considerando que os direitos humanos fundamentais constitucionalmente positivados oferecem orient... more Considerando que os direitos humanos fundamentais constitucionalmente positivados oferecem orientações para que os conceitos de dignidade, liberdade e igualdade possam se efetivar em ações do Estado, respeitando-se no caso dos povos indígenas as suas particularidades culturais, buscaremos no presente artigo[1] analisar a efetividade da normatização dos direitos dos povos indígenas, no plano internacional e na Constituição brasileira, apontando para a possibilidade de alcançar tal efetividade a partir da rejeição de práticas autoritárias e discriminatórias e da adoção de valores interculturais que primem pela tomada de decisões negociadas coletivamente, numa relação horizontal e mediante a ação participativa e democrática, tendo os próprios povos indígenas como os agentes principais nas tomadas de decisões que lhes dizem respeito. [1] Artigo apresentado no 3º Congresso Internacional de Povos Indígenas da América Latina ocorrido nos dias 3 a 5 de julho do ano de 2019 na Universidade...

This article deals with connections between phenomenological approaches and the production of val... more This article deals with connections between phenomenological approaches and the production of valid generalizations in the making of ethnography. The argument is constructed through the presentation of valid generalizations that have a bearing on the intersubjective feelings of belonging among the Tupinambá Indians (south of Bahia). These feelings arise both from living in a small kinship compound, with its sense of immediacy and personalized attachments to space, and from becoming part of the larger category of Tupinambá people and territory. The intertwining of lived experience and a broader comparative perspective on sociality, raised both by Americanist and more general theoretical debates in anthropology, is considered. From this perspective, the article presents different processes of connection making as epistemological tools for ethnographic generalizations, constructed in a constant overlapping of scales.

Veritas, 2016

O trabalho de campo beneficiou igualmente de apoios da Fundacao Oriente em Dili e da Secretaria d... more O trabalho de campo beneficiou igualmente de apoios da Fundacao Oriente em Dili e da Secretaria de Estado das Artes e da Cultura da Republica Democratica de Timor-Leste. Ao longo destes anos contamos com a colaboracao de Abilio do Santos Tilman (primeiro nas funcoes de delegado local da SEAC e depois como nosso assistente de campo) e, apos o seu triste falecimento em 2013, do Mestre Justino Valentim (tambem ele prematuramente desaparecido em 2014, logo apos o termo do nosso trabalho em Lospalos) e ainda de Gil dos Santos. Queremos agradecer a preciosa hospitalidade que nos foi prestada pela familia de Julio e Virginia Mota. Tendo uma versao deste ensaio sido apresentada no VI Congresso da Associacao Portuguesa de Antropologia (Painel T037 – Futuros da Memoria, Disputas do Patrimonio: Inteligibilidades e Construcao de Identidades no Sudeste Asiatico, organizado por Lucio Sousa e Vicente Paulino), queremos agradecer aos organizadores e aos participantes na nossa sessao pelos oportunos...

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All papers published in this collection have been peer refereed. All rights reserved. Any reprodu... more All papers published in this collection have been peer refereed. All rights reserved. Any reproductions, in whole or in part of this publication must be clearly attributed to the original publication and authors. Cover photo courtesy of Sara Currie Design and book layout by Susana Barnes.

Transformations in Independent Timor-Leste, 2017

Revista de Antropologia, 2015

Neste artigo proponho uma análise da territorialidade vivida pelos índios que habitavam na vila... more Neste artigo proponho uma análise da territorialidade vivida pelos índios que habitavam na vila de Olivença (sul da Bahia) no período colonial, à luz de enfoques trazidos pela etnografia contemporânea. Mostro que a própria política missionária de fixação criou espaços transformados — tanto da mata e dos locais onde os índios cultivavam as suas roças como da própria sede da missão — que conseguimos configurar como territorialidades numa historicidade ameríndia. Serão principalmente exploradas visões da territorialidade a partir da posse e da responsabilidade individual finita em cuidar do espaço. O artigo visa contribuir para o alargamento da história das territorialidades ameríndias, partindo dos regimes de posse que resultam desta articulação entre os projetos territoriais coloniais e as vivências e apropriações ameríndias do espaço.

Etnografica

... Tazer etnografia em antropologia envolve actos de partir, ficar, partilhar e escrever - notas... more ... Tazer etnografia em antropologia envolve actos de partir, ficar, partilhar e escrever - notas de campo, textos e livros - que têm ... Como James Clifford notou recentemente, esta contextualização e localização da etnografia esteve por muito tempo agarrada ao símbolo da tenda ...

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste, 2019

I would like to express the deepest thanks and gratitude to the following people who have helped ... more I would like to express the deepest thanks and gratitude to the following people who have helped and supported me throughout this process. This has been the hardest, but also the best thing I have ever done; thank you all for helping me get through it! Many thanks to the ESRC and De Montfort University for giving me the opportunity to do this, and funding my studies. Also many thanks to all those who gave their time to participate in the research, it was all greatly appreciated. My supervisors; Jean Hine and Nick Flynn. Your support and advice has been invaluable throughout the past few years. Thank you for the constructive criticism, help, and patience. Thank you for being enthusiastic and encouraging when I used something as silly as Superman as a metaphor for social justice, it helped clarify a lot of things for me. Thank you also for pushing me to define and question the abstract ideas in my work, the thesis is so much better for it, and I hope that I am a better thinker for it too. Roger Smith, who supervised my Masters research, and helped me organised my ideas when starting the PhD. Thank you Roger for suggesting I read 'A Theory of Justice'. Once I'd got past the writing style and figured out what that book was saying, it was revelatory and has completely altered my way of thinking about justice and equality. My family, friends, and fellow students. I am not the most adept person at dealing with stress; your support and understanding has helped me to make it to this point. I appreciated every pep talk, be they over cups of tea or glasses of wine. I owe you all a lot. Les Hayden, my partner. From the moment I called you and said I had been accepted to do a PhD, you were thrilled for me and gave me your full support. I cannot thank you enough. You've suffered through me ranting about social justice for years now, and have never complained. When I doubted myself or was overcome with stress, you always helped, even when my worries were ridiculous. You even went to the trouble of teaching me to use a semicolon properly (which is no easy feat). I am forever grateful.

Based on ethnographic descriptions of different historical instances and meanings of possession o... more Based on ethnographic descriptions of different historical instances and meanings of possession of the land, in this article I argue that meaningful experiences of dwelling are a key factor in transforming the past by abandoning a place and leaving it to the forest. Instead of handing land down, heading forth to open up new spaces for cultivation, building new homes and thereby establishing a new house informs these practices of possession that imply on the one hand personalized, temporary possessions sustained in the responsibility by the owner for the owned object/subject, and on the other hand imply cutting with former places of origin. By showing that temporalities of possession intertwine land dynamics with kinship dynamics, I finally show how this analysis not only connects the lived world of indigenous people living in the Atlantic coast and those inhabiting Amazonia, but also opens up meaningful comparative axes to other rural socialities in the Northeast Brazil.

Neste artigo proponho uma analise da territorialidade vivida pelos indios que habitavam na vila d... more Neste artigo proponho uma analise da territorialidade vivida pelos indios que habitavam na vila de Olivenca (sul da Bahia) no periodo colonial, a luz de enfoques trazidos pela etnografia contemporanea. Mostro que a propria politica missionaria de fixacao criou espacos transformados — tanto da mata e dos locais onde os indios cultivavam as suas rocas como da propria sede da missao — que conseguimos configurar como territorialidades numa historicidade amerindia. Serao principalmente exploradas visoes da territorialidade a partir da posse e da responsabilidade individual finita em cuidar do espaco. O artigo visa contribuir para o alargamento da historia das territorialidades amerindias, partindo dos regimes de posse que resultam desta articulacao entre os projetos territoriais coloniais e as vivencias e apropriacoes amerindias do espaco.

Psicologia, Aug 22, 2014

The observation that notions of old age are subjected to considerable historical and cultural var... more The observation that notions of old age are subjected to considerable historical and cultural variation suggests that, as social constructs, they reinterpret the biological (individual and universal) process of aging. Old age is a central part of the social representation of the individual’s life cycle as systematized in each society’s notion of Person. The latter presumes a specific conception of the relations between the members of the society and their integration into the social whole. Becoming aged dynamizes a process of substitution of each individual by a new one that will guarantee the historical continuity of social reproduction.