cometadata/datacite-titles-descriptions-related-identifiers huggingface dataset:
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015908
title: Tracing identities through interconnections: the biological body, intersubjective experiences and narratives of suffering

description: The 1987 radioactive disaster in Goiânia - a 'critical event' - revealed the formation of new identities in opposition to the notion of radioacidentados (radiation victims), a classification established by the system of nuclear expertise and defined exclusively by the person's absorption of high-level doses of radiation. In the search to give meaning to their illness and suffering, new social subjects have emerged and elaborated new interpretations concerning the materiality of contaminated bodies. In narrating their subjective experiences, they situate their identities as victims in relation to the embodied experience of the contaminated site and the attribution of new meanings to certain objects associated with the disaster itself and nuclear technology in general. The text focuses on this articulation between the biological body, narratives, memory, 'things' and the constitution of social identities. It provides a historical analysis, supported by a multivocal ethnography of the Cesium-137 disaster.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015914
title: Old and new visions of Brazilianness: the vagaries of equality, difference and 'race' in history textbooks

description: Abstract In this paper I discuss the changes in Brazilian history textbooks brought about by the National Textbook Program (PNLD) during the 1980s, to put greater emphasis on the value of democracy and questions of inequality, including those inequalities related to cultural differences, often in terms of "race". The analysis reveals a major paradigmatic shift from the notions of a nation built on "racial mixture" to one based on the tense and often conflictive relations between distinct racial and ethnic groups.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015914.v1
title: Old and new visions of Brazilianness: the vagaries of equality, difference and 'race' in history textbooks

description: Abstract In this paper I discuss the changes in Brazilian history textbooks brought about by the National Textbook Program (PNLD) during the 1980s, to put greater emphasis on the value of democracy and questions of inequality, including those inequalities related to cultural differences, often in terms of "race". The analysis reveals a major paradigmatic shift from the notions of a nation built on "racial mixture" to one based on the tense and often conflictive relations between distinct racial and ethnic groups.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015922.v1
title: The school as a project for the future: a case study of a new Pataxó Village School in Minas Gerais

description: Abstract This article presents reflections of indigenous teachers about the role of the school in a new Pataxó indigenous community settlement in the state of Minas Gerais. The data was collected in "narrative interviews" with teachers from this community who attended the first Intercultural Education for Indigenous Educators (FIEI) course offered by the Federal University at Minas Gerais. In these narratives, both the indigenous school and FIEI are seen as a collective project of and for the community. The school occupies a central position in the articulation between traditional ways of producing knowledge and the formulation of projects for the future.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015920.v1
title: Classifications and moral values in student evaluation boards

description: Abstract This article is an analysis of student evaluation board meetings as a space that reveals the classification systems and mechanisms present in the school and which underpin its moral order. Through field work in a federal school in Rio de Janeiro we aimed to understand how these moral criteria form hierarchies which produce different ways of evaluating students, and as a consequence, inequality.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015922
title: The school as a project for the future: a case study of a new Pataxó Village School in Minas Gerais

description: Abstract This article presents reflections of indigenous teachers about the role of the school in a new Pataxó indigenous community settlement in the state of Minas Gerais. The data was collected in "narrative interviews" with teachers from this community who attended the first Intercultural Education for Indigenous Educators (FIEI) course offered by the Federal University at Minas Gerais. In these narratives, both the indigenous school and FIEI are seen as a collective project of and for the community. The school occupies a central position in the articulation between traditional ways of producing knowledge and the formulation of projects for the future.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015920
title: Classifications and moral values in student evaluation boards

description: Abstract This article is an analysis of student evaluation board meetings as a space that reveals the classification systems and mechanisms present in the school and which underpin its moral order. Through field work in a federal school in Rio de Janeiro we aimed to understand how these moral criteria form hierarchies which produce different ways of evaluating students, and as a consequence, inequality.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015925.v1
title: Choice and access to the best schools of Rio de Janeiro: a rite of passage

description: Abstract Each year in the city of Rio de Janeiro a ritual takes place for selecting and distributing groups of pupils among schools providing the second phase of primary education. Called remanejamento or reallocation, this process involves school directors, education coordinators and the families of pupils. Since part of the process is protected by secrecy, complete access to the rite proved impossible. However it was possible to analyse what happens through the dialogues of the professionals involved and from the viewpoint of the family members who took part in the process. The article demonstrates that the transfer system tends to separate the pupils based on family background and the relations that their parents have to the networks of solidarity that connect families and the management body of the schools. These multiple belongings separate the pupils who will gain places at the best schools from those who will be enrolled in mid-level or low-quality schools.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015925
title: Choice and access to the best schools of Rio de Janeiro: a rite of passage

description: Abstract Each year in the city of Rio de Janeiro a ritual takes place for selecting and distributing groups of pupils among schools providing the second phase of primary education. Called remanejamento or reallocation, this process involves school directors, education coordinators and the families of pupils. Since part of the process is protected by secrecy, complete access to the rite proved impossible. However it was possible to analyse what happens through the dialogues of the professionals involved and from the viewpoint of the family members who took part in the process. The article demonstrates that the transfer system tends to separate the pupils based on family background and the relations that their parents have to the networks of solidarity that connect families and the management body of the schools. These multiple belongings separate the pupils who will gain places at the best schools from those who will be enrolled in mid-level or low-quality schools.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015929
title: Science, stigmatisation and afro-pessimism in the South African debate on AIDS

description: Summary This paper examines how certain assumptions concerning sexual behaviour, race and nationality emerge at the core of explanations regarding the origin of HIV. In particular, it returns to discussions of the so-called "AIDS debate" in South Africa in the 2000s. On the one hand, it focuses on how these assumptions reinforce the understanding of AIDS as stigma and "social problem", to the extent that they emphasise the existence of geographical areas and "risk groups". On the other, these same assumptions are examined in the light of processes of identification and belonging, given that in the majority of reports, both academic and popular, "Africans" and "Africa" are inexorably understood in pessimistic terms. The purpose is to show how certain aspects of the South African debate refer to the way the global history of AIDS has been constructed over the past three decades. An exhaustive historiographical reconstruction is not attempted here, rather by returning to some works on the genesis of the epidemic, the paper highlights the individual and collective stigmatisation related to the public health discourse on AIDS, particularly such notions as "risk", "exposure" and "vulnerability". The proposal is such notions are strongly informed by a moral sense that traverses the dominant cognitive model in the approaches to the global epidemic and the AIDS debate in South Africa. The last part of the article focuses on the tensions that emerge between the explanations of experts from the field of public health and the contributions of social scientists, particularly anthropologists, frequently questioned for their alleged cultural relativism.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015929.v1
title: Science, stigmatisation and afro-pessimism in the South African debate on AIDS

description: Summary This paper examines how certain assumptions concerning sexual behaviour, race and nationality emerge at the core of explanations regarding the origin of HIV. In particular, it returns to discussions of the so-called "AIDS debate" in South Africa in the 2000s. On the one hand, it focuses on how these assumptions reinforce the understanding of AIDS as stigma and "social problem", to the extent that they emphasise the existence of geographical areas and "risk groups". On the other, these same assumptions are examined in the light of processes of identification and belonging, given that in the majority of reports, both academic and popular, "Africans" and "Africa" are inexorably understood in pessimistic terms. The purpose is to show how certain aspects of the South African debate refer to the way the global history of AIDS has been constructed over the past three decades. An exhaustive historiographical reconstruction is not attempted here, rather by returning to some works on the genesis of the epidemic, the paper highlights the individual and collective stigmatisation related to the public health discourse on AIDS, particularly such notions as "risk", "exposure" and "vulnerability". The proposal is such notions are strongly informed by a moral sense that traverses the dominant cognitive model in the approaches to the global epidemic and the AIDS debate in South Africa. The last part of the article focuses on the tensions that emerge between the explanations of experts from the field of public health and the contributions of social scientists, particularly anthropologists, frequently questioned for their alleged cultural relativism.
DOI: 10.34816/efr.bf8d-85d5
title: Manuels de commerce italiens (XIV-XV)_Lieux_V1.0

description: Inventaire quantifié des lieux mentionnés dans 7 manuels de commerces italiens de la fin du Moyen Âge (Anonyme Pisan, Berti, Zibaldone da Canal, Pratica de Pegolotti, Pratica datiniana, Saminiato de Ricci, Uzzano).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015934.v1
title: Living longer: are we getting older or younger for longer?

description: Abstract Since the second half of the 20th century survival has been democratised in most countries. More and more people reach an advanced age. The objective of this paper is to discuss how phases of the life cycle are being re-defined in the context of a world in transformation: the universalization of social security that guarantees income for older people; technological advances that have increased the velocity of communication and the demand for continuing education; medical advances; and changes in family organization such as an increase in divorce rates, re-marriage and unions between people of the same sex. Even so, the biological changes that accompany ageing have not changed since Antiquity, in spite of hopes for a longer life. These changes occur later in life and more people live through them. Yet people continue to retire at more or less the same age. This suggests the creation of a new post retirement life phase that is distinct from adult life and the phase of fragility. We remain young for longer; indeed youth has been extended. We do not know whether this new phase will be experienced by all people. But if that becomes the case, why not include it as part of adult life?
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015934
title: Living longer: are we getting older or younger for longer?

description: Abstract Since the second half of the 20th century survival has been democratised in most countries. More and more people reach an advanced age. The objective of this paper is to discuss how phases of the life cycle are being re-defined in the context of a world in transformation: the universalization of social security that guarantees income for older people; technological advances that have increased the velocity of communication and the demand for continuing education; medical advances; and changes in family organization such as an increase in divorce rates, re-marriage and unions between people of the same sex. Even so, the biological changes that accompany ageing have not changed since Antiquity, in spite of hopes for a longer life. These changes occur later in life and more people live through them. Yet people continue to retire at more or less the same age. This suggests the creation of a new post retirement life phase that is distinct from adult life and the phase of fragility. We remain young for longer; indeed youth has been extended. We do not know whether this new phase will be experienced by all people. But if that becomes the case, why not include it as part of adult life?
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015935
title: EATING (WITH) PIRANHAS: UNTAMED APPROACHES TO DOMESTICATION

description: Abstract In this article I begin by describing my sense of ethnographic unease concerning the commensality and the conviviality of two predators in Amazonian lakes - piranhas and fishermen. From this starting point I then discuss the notion of domestication, commenting on the current tendency to reaffirm use of the term in social anthropology and revisiting two approaches: that of Jean-Pierre Digard (and other French authors) and that of Tim Ingold, both of whom make use of this notion in their ethnographic explorations of the relation between humans and animals. The article then returns to explore the potential of the notion of domestication for making explicit contemporary questions and dilemmas such as nature and culture, human and animal, subject and object. I conclude with a reflection on the ideas of domestication and predation in the relationship between piranhas and fishermen.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015935.v1
title: EATING (WITH) PIRANHAS: UNTAMED APPROACHES TO DOMESTICATION

description: Abstract In this article I begin by describing my sense of ethnographic unease concerning the commensality and the conviviality of two predators in Amazonian lakes - piranhas and fishermen. From this starting point I then discuss the notion of domestication, commenting on the current tendency to reaffirm use of the term in social anthropology and revisiting two approaches: that of Jean-Pierre Digard (and other French authors) and that of Tim Ingold, both of whom make use of this notion in their ethnographic explorations of the relation between humans and animals. The article then returns to explore the potential of the notion of domestication for making explicit contemporary questions and dilemmas such as nature and culture, human and animal, subject and object. I conclude with a reflection on the ideas of domestication and predation in the relationship between piranhas and fishermen.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015938
title: THE WAY OF LIFE OF THE BRAZILIAN PAMPAS: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE CAMPOEIROS AND THEIR ANIMALS

description: Abstract In line with the preservation policy on ethnic and cultural diversity of Brazil, the survey of the National Inventory of Cultural References (INRC) - Lidas Campeiras in the Bagé Region sought to inventory the livestock in the Brazilian pampa as a cultural reference. The experience of the research focused on the relationship of culture and nature, specifically the relationship between humans and animals, considered by the dwellers of the Pampa to influence directly the way of life that they lead. The campeiro (pampas person) way of life cannot be conceived without taking into account the oxen, horses and dogs. The paper also the notion of patrimony, taking into account aspects of relatedness, materiality and resonance (Gonçalves 2004).
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015938.v1
title: THE WAY OF LIFE OF THE BRAZILIAN PAMPAS: AN ETHNOGRAPHY OF THE CAMPOEIROS AND THEIR ANIMALS

description: Abstract In line with the preservation policy on ethnic and cultural diversity of Brazil, the survey of the National Inventory of Cultural References (INRC) - Lidas Campeiras in the Bagé Region sought to inventory the livestock in the Brazilian pampa as a cultural reference. The experience of the research focused on the relationship of culture and nature, specifically the relationship between humans and animals, considered by the dwellers of the Pampa to influence directly the way of life that they lead. The campeiro (pampas person) way of life cannot be conceived without taking into account the oxen, horses and dogs. The paper also the notion of patrimony, taking into account aspects of relatedness, materiality and resonance (Gonçalves 2004).
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6619318
title: Diurnal evolution of negative atmospheric ions above the boreal forest: From ground level to the free troposphere

description: The data used in the publication is available for download. The unit of the data can be found in the header of the csv files. Please note, that the mass spectrometer data is in UTC+3 time, the rest of the data in UTC+2 time.
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5741437
title: Diurnal evolution of negative atmospheric ions above the boreal forest: From ground level to the free troposphere

description: The data used in the publication is available for download. The unit of the data can be found in the header of the csv files. Please note, that the mass spectrometer data is in UTC+3 time, the rest of the data in UTC+2 time.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015941.v1
title: Networks that cure: the biological and symbolic conversion of artisanal chesses in Minas Gerais, Brazil

description: Abstract This article analyzes the way of the artisanal cheese from Canastra, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, emphasizing its passage by to a center of maturation. This process is taken as a ritual process and as a food performance. That passage will be examined as a particular mechanism for the organic and symbolic transition of the food from one state to another. This process encompasses a wide network of different actors and moments that make up the ‘social life’ of the cheese. In this text, I try to recover moments of its path describing how the artisanal food occupies a privileged place in the creation of social and cosmological ties. I also seek to demonstrate how the cheese artisanal characteristics line off differences not only in its own identity, but also in the social agents involved in its making.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015941
title: Networks that cure: the biological and symbolic conversion of artisanal chesses in Minas Gerais, Brazil

description: Abstract This article analyzes the way of the artisanal cheese from Canastra, Minas Gerais state, Brazil, emphasizing its passage by to a center of maturation. This process is taken as a ritual process and as a food performance. That passage will be examined as a particular mechanism for the organic and symbolic transition of the food from one state to another. This process encompasses a wide network of different actors and moments that make up the ‘social life’ of the cheese. In this text, I try to recover moments of its path describing how the artisanal food occupies a privileged place in the creation of social and cosmological ties. I also seek to demonstrate how the cheese artisanal characteristics line off differences not only in its own identity, but also in the social agents involved in its making.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015943.v1
title: Brincadeira, mestizo genre: performance, dissensus and decolonial aesthetics

description: Abstract This paper proposes a reflection about the “brincadeira” as a genre of performance from a perspective which articulates aisthesis, the decolonial option and the politics of aesthetics, trying to contribute to the relatively new perspective of the decolonial aesthetics. An ethnography of maracatu-de-baque-solto (Pernambuco, Brazil) initiates the analytical reflection enlightening its singularities, understood as logics of dissensus, thus producing a merged conceptual and vitalist order of the multiplicity. Subsequently, my interest will focus specifically on the performative modalities of the brincadeira as genre in the light of a modality of action, “brincar”, which inscribes it as an indisciplined aisthesis. Finally, I will try to understand how, in this tension, the brincadeira as a native cultural production and from the perspective of performance can concretely contribute to the decolonial aesthetics project.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015943
title: Brincadeira, mestizo genre: performance, dissensus and decolonial aesthetics

description: Abstract This paper proposes a reflection about the “brincadeira” as a genre of performance from a perspective which articulates aisthesis, the decolonial option and the politics of aesthetics, trying to contribute to the relatively new perspective of the decolonial aesthetics. An ethnography of maracatu-de-baque-solto (Pernambuco, Brazil) initiates the analytical reflection enlightening its singularities, understood as logics of dissensus, thus producing a merged conceptual and vitalist order of the multiplicity. Subsequently, my interest will focus specifically on the performative modalities of the brincadeira as genre in the light of a modality of action, “brincar”, which inscribes it as an indisciplined aisthesis. Finally, I will try to understand how, in this tension, the brincadeira as a native cultural production and from the perspective of performance can concretely contribute to the decolonial aesthetics project.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015950
title: A Colloquium of Sorcerers: Mário de Andrade, Fernando Ortiz, and “the music of sorcery”

description: Abstract Brazilian writer and musicologist Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) and Cuban writer and anthropologist Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969) are important references in the study of cultures of African origin in their respective countries. The two intellectuals shared an interest in the relations between music and sorcery in Afro-American conceptions and rituals, as suggested by their field observations and bibliographic references. This essay explores common characteristics and contrasts in their approaches to the theme and suggests that the debate should not be limited to the history of ideas, since it echoes contemporary theories on “speech acts”, performativity, and aesthetic agency.
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.20015950.v1
title: A Colloquium of Sorcerers: Mário de Andrade, Fernando Ortiz, and “the music of sorcery”

description: Abstract Brazilian writer and musicologist Mário de Andrade (1893-1945) and Cuban writer and anthropologist Fernando Ortiz (1881-1969) are important references in the study of cultures of African origin in their respective countries. The two intellectuals shared an interest in the relations between music and sorcery in Afro-American conceptions and rituals, as suggested by their field observations and bibliographic references. This essay explores common characteristics and contrasts in their approaches to the theme and suggests that the debate should not be limited to the history of ideas, since it echoes contemporary theories on “speech acts”, performativity, and aesthetic agency.