http://hdl.handle.net/11422/61 2026-07-29T16:34:52Z 2026-07-29T16:34:52Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29828 2026-07-29T03:00:10Z 2026-03-04T00:00:00Z

Title: Pensar a morte com os espíritos: a experiência negra na diáspora à luz das religiões de matriz africana Author(s)/Inventor(s): Cruz, Barbara Pimentel da Silva Advisor: Goldman, Marcio Abstract: Death appears as an unavoidable part of the Black diaspora experience, since it is inevitably rooted in slavery, racism, and their consequences. This thesis seeks to explore other meanings when considered from the perspectives present in Africanbased religions, which were both at the heart of movements to create possible spaces of existence and the target of violent processes of existential annihilation. The central hypothesis is that thinking with the presence of spirits changes everything: if death is a movement toward the total destruction of the other, it can also be understood in its dimensions of transformation and passage between different realms, traversed in different ways by various entities—orixás, voduns, caboclos, spirits, the dead, enchanted beings. In the resonance between ethnographic contexts, this work aims to elaborate the meanings and nuances of the idea of death when thought of in the presence of the entities that populate the universe of African-based religions and the discursive and non-discursive practices present in these communities. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese

2026-03-04T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29793 2026-07-26T03:00:12Z 2026-02-10T00:00:00Z

Title: Traduzindo Políticas: Lideranças, associações e a representação política entre os Yanomae do rio Demini (AM) Author(s)/Inventor(s): Silva, Marcelo Moura Advisor: Vilaça, Aparecida Abstract: Through an ethnography of Yanomami (Yanomae) political representation, this thesis aims to describe the relationships between kinship groups, leaders, and communities along the Demini River, in their engagement within the horizon of relations with nonindigenous people (napëpë) and the Brazilian State. I seek to reflect on the creative articulation between the politics of multiplicity – its codes, characters, and relationships – and the politics of representation and the demands for identity and univocity that create the conditions for indigenous people to act before the napë and within the State. To this end, we will follow the forces of convergence and disputes in the negotiations between communities, leaders, representatives, and associations at different scales of relationship: in the transmission of the words of the communities and their elder leaders through written documents and young bilingual emissaries; in the fabrication and projection of representatives; and in the organization and institutionalization of collective action around indigenous associations and elected directors. As mediating figures in the Yanomami-napë interface of relations, the position of the representatives is constructed related to different perspectives: of those represented and those of the interlocutors to whom they direct their representation. Thus, different images of the representatives are produced, and these vary according to the conceptions of politics being translated. An analysis of practices of political representation in the context of the Demini River region, anchored in the conceptual translation procedures carried out by the Yanomami to act in the passage between these two registers of thought and political practice, reveals the central terms and relationships for the processes of production and projection of subjects and collectives and, between associations and leaderships, the modes of legitimation and evaluation of the effectiveness of the representatives. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese

2026-02-10T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29792 2026-07-26T03:00:12Z 2026-02-24T00:00:00Z

Title: Ardem as imagens: dispositivos Yanomami de retorno e retomada no (contra-) arquivo fotográfico de Bruce Albert Author(s)/Inventor(s): Vega, Valeria Alejandra Pérez Advisor: Fausto, Carlos Abstract: This thesis examines the process of visual return to the Yanomami people of the images taken by anthropologist Bruce Albert. These photographs were produced in the Yanomami Indigenous Land (TIY) between 1975 and 1984. The return took place mainly among the Yanomami of the Kawani community, located in the Novo Demini region, Barcelos (Amazonas), as well as in Boa Vista (Roraima), and was grounded in an ethnographic research involving: the Yanomami notion of photographic images and their restrictive practices concerning photographic capture and erasure; Indigenous participation in decision-making processes and in reclaiming photographs from the archive; narratives of both Indigenous people and the ethnologist-photographer that emerged through encounters and misencounters with the photographs in past and present historical contexts. The process of visual return highlights how Yanomami photographic and filmic images (utupë) activate kinship relations between the living and the dead, territorial connections, conceptions of the body, health and illness, and negotiations with the non-Indigenous world. It follows that, the research emphasizes the contribution of Yanomami dispositifs – oriented by the erasure of images – to the formulation of a photographic (counter-)archive. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese

2026-02-24T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29783 2026-07-25T03:00:11Z 2026-03-27T00:00:00Z

Title: Etnicidade e disputas simbólicas: o oeste do Paraná no contexto da colonização interna brasileira Author(s)/Inventor(s): Lini, Priscila Advisor: Lima, Antonio Carlos de Souza Abstract: This thesis examines the roots of the notion of ethno-cultural superiority and the work ethos that shape ethnicity in Western Paraná, interrogating the process of alienation and the lack of class consciousness among settlers, as well as their paradoxical relationship with the natural environment, understood as an obstacle to be overcome by mechanized monoculture. The central objective was to analyze the sociocultural formation of Western Paraná, starting from the geographical area corresponding to the former Iguassú Territory (1943-1946), in order to decipher the genesis of mentalities, customs, and practices that underpin a claim of superiority in relation to other regions of the country, linked to European ancestry, evident in language, the production of material life, and local forms of sociability. The methodological approach was based on ethnographic work, including immersive fieldwork conducted between 2022 and 2025, with participant observation in everyday contexts, rituals, and agricultural workspaces, in addition to semi-structured interviews and life histories with settlers, descendants of immigrants, and local agents. The corpus also included documentary analysis of colonial archives, official records, and period iconography. The results show that the settlers' supposed autonomy was, in reality, methodically steered by an articulation between the State and agents of private capital, within the framework of the conservative modernization of the Vargas era and the "March to the West." This intervention pacified land disputes and channeled descendants of Italian, German, and Polish immigrants, employing family morality and whiteness as implicit criteria of trust and efficacy. It is concluded that the territory in question emerged from an articulated rural and urban real estate speculative dynamic, in which land, transformed into a commodity by the combined action of State and capital, produced surplus value and limited material and symbolic circulation. Colonization proved to be a project for marshalling the immigrant mass, historically internalized into a particular habitus: the condition of "settler" as an attribute implies adherence to a shared moral imaginary, a normative structure that organizes existence and naturalizes asymmetries. The investigation contributes to denaturalizing the ideology of regional development, exposing its foundations in national political projects, processes of racialization, and the logic of the domination of nature.; Esta tesis examina las raíces de la noción de superioridad etnocultural y del ethos laboral que configura la etnicidad en el Oeste de Paraná, interrogando el proceso de alienación y la falta de conciencia de clase entre los colonos, así como su relación paradójica con el entorno natural, entendido como un obstáculo a superar mediante el monocultivo mecanizado. El objetivo central fue analizar la formación sociocultural del Oeste de Paraná, partiendo del recorte geográfico correspondiente al antiguo Territorio del Iguazú (1943-1946), con el fin de descifrar la génesis de mentalidades, costumbres y prácticas que fundamentan una pretensión de superioridad, relación a las otras partes del país, vinculada a la ascendencia europea, perceptible en el lenguaje, en la producción de la vida material y en las formas de sociabilidad locales. El enfoque metodológico se basó en un trabajo etnográfico que incluyó trabajo de campo inmersivo realizado entre 2022 y 2025, con observación participante en contextos cotidianos, rituales y espacios de trabajo agrícolas, además de entrevistas semiestructuradas y relatos de vida con colonos, descendientes de inmigrantes y agentes locales. El corpus también incluyó análisis documental de archivos coloniales, registros oficiales e iconografía de la época. Los resultados evidencian que la supuesta autonomía de los colonos fue, en realidad, metódicamente dirigida por una articulación entre el Estado y agentes del capital privado, en el marco de la modernización conservadora del varguismo y de la Marcha hacia el Oeste. Esta intervención pacificó disputas por la tierra y canalizó a descendientes de inmigrantes italianos, alemanes y polacos, empleando la moral familiar y la blanquitud como criterios implícitos de confianza y eficacia. Se concluye que el territorio en cuestión surgió de una dinámica especulativa inmobiliaria rural y urbana articulada, en la cual la tierra, transformada en mercancía por la actuación combinada del Estado y el capital, produjo sobrevalor y limitó la circulación material y simbólica. La colonización se reveló como un proyecto de regimentación de la masa inmigrante, internalizado históricamente en un habitus particular: la condición de "colono" como atributo implica la adhesión a un imaginario moral compartido, una estructura normativa que organiza la existencia y naturaliza asimetrías. La investigación contribuye a desnaturalizar la ideología del desarrollo regional, exponiendo sus fundamentos en proyectos políticos nacionales, procesos de racialización y en la lógica de dominación de la naturaleza. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese

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