http://hdl.handle.net/11422/16 Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:34:49 GMT 2026-07-21T14:34:49Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29713 Title: "Diabo velho, eu vou cortar seu chifre, seu rabo e dar pra Exu comer": uma etnografia das Giras de Exu em espaços públicos do Rio de Janeiro Author(s)/Inventor(s): Silva, Genilson Leite da Advisor: Facina, Adriana Abstract: This research aims to understand the social dynamics that enable the systematic and organized performance of Exu rituals in public spaces. Starting from the central question—what are the articulations and negotiations between the State and the organizers of the rituals that make the realization and expansion of these religious events in urban spaces possible?—it proposes to investigate the process of occupation of public space in the municipality of Rio de Janeiro. The focus is on the Exu rituals that occur especially in the central region of the city, with emphasis on the National Sanctuary of Zé Pelintra, located in the Lapa neighborhood. This location was chosen for its centrality in the process of consolidation and expansion of the phenomenon to other territories, both in the city and in other Brazilian states. The research adopted an approach intensive in the field of studies of complex societies and used, as a theoretical basis, the contributions of Urban Anthropology in dialogue with the Anthropology of Religion and the Anthropology of Ritual. In this intersection, the aim was to understand how Exu's Giras operate as Afro-Brazilian religious practices that, by occupying public space, articulate spirituality, politics, resistance, and symbolic dispute. Throughout the fieldwork, it was possible to observe the existence of a circuit of Giras that not only shares religious foundations but also establishes connections with cultural elements, community demands, and strategies for identity affirmation. The Sanctuary of Zé Pelintra functions as a gravitational point for these dynamics, mobilizing religious agents, artists, community leaders, and devotees around practices that challenge the logic of the invisibility of Afro-Brazilian religions in urban spaces. Furthermore, the research identified a complex network of relationships and disputes involving religious leaders, public authorities, the media, local residents, and other social actors. These conflicts are evidenced in the struggle for territory, visibility, institutional recognition, and resources. The constant presence of the Giras (spiritual ceremonies) on the street strains the boundaries between the sacred and the profane, the public and the private, the traditional and the contemporary, generating new ways of experiencing faith and occupying the city. Thus, the research contributes to the understanding of the Giras as an expanding urban phenomenon that redefines public spaces based on Afro-Brazilian spiritual practices, revealing how these rituals operate as devices of resistance, territorial reorganization, and the production of political and religious subjectivities in the heart of Rio de Janeiro. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29713 2026-01-19T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29697 Title: Espíritos fugidios: a Jurema no Recife Author(s)/Inventor(s): Silva, Noshua Amoras de Morais e Advisor: Goldman, Marcio Abstract: This thesis consists of an ethnography of jurema as practiced in Recife – in the sense that it takes place in terreiros located in the city’s suburbs. The focus of the analysis is the relationship between people and spirits in a world assumed to be shared. My hypothesis is that this sharing presupposes both a continuity between spirits and humans, as well as a discontinuity that is modulated through ritual actions. Based on this basic question, I describe the main constitutive aspects of the cult. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Wed, 12 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29697 2025-11-12T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29682 Title: Sobre o corpo e a imaginação na Ética de Spinoza Author(s)/Inventor(s): Kratochwil, Eduardo Couto da Cunha Advisor: Carvalho, André Martins Vilar de Abstract: Le but de cette recherche est d'explorer la notion de corps et la notion d'imagination dans l'Ethique de Spinoza pour l'emplacement de certains aspects de la connaissance imaginative qui permettent à l'auteur d'indiquer ce que il comprend pour l'essence singulière individuelle en référence à la doctrine éthique et, d'autre part de cette façon l'imagination participer et peut participer, éventuellement en spinozana épistémologie quand la raison devient l'expression de permettre aux hommes de vivre en harmonie. Pour cela, il est prévu au premier à décrire le développement de concepts qui construisent l'ontologie de la substance et de la philosophie de l'immanence, pour définir ensuite la théorie du corps et de ses implications à la connaissance de l'esprit. Le second balayages de temps de ce genre est l'idée proposée esprit humain de l'union corps-esprit et ce que cela signifie pour la théorie de la connaissance chez Spinoza. Enfin, de brèves conclusions seront présentées sur les idées imaginatives par rapport à la constitution de corps et d'essences naturelles, qui ont dirigé les vertus de l'esprit et le corps peut imaginer comment la connaissance imaginative reçoit une attention Spinoza alors qu'il a l'un des objectifs de vie du projet éthique dans la concorde entre les hommes. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação Wed, 27 Jul 2016 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29682 2016-07-27T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29679 Title: Zonas de silêncio nas relações de trabalho docente na educação básica brasileira (2011-2024) Author(s)/Inventor(s): Souza, Artur Gomes de Advisor: Motta, Vânia Abstract: This thesis aimed to understand the determinants of the contractual forms of the teaching workforce in state Basic Education in Brazil, with an emphasis on the expansion and the obscuring of data regarding the temporary hiring of teachers, in contrast to permanent positions. The research analyzes certain economic, political, and social determinants underlying this phenomenon, in connection with State reform, the export-oriented pattern of productive specialization of Brazilian dependent capitalism, demographic transition, and the increase of constant capital in the so-called “educational industry.” Through documentary analysis of the production of international organizations (UNESCO, World Bank, IDB) and national capital organizations—namely the Private Apparatus of Hegemony “Todos Pela Educação” Movement, as well as the mobile action fronts “Movimento Profissão Docente” and “Movimento Pessoas à Frente”. To understand the moments of capital in their regional and national derivations, the study draws on the content of 49 master’s dissertations and seven doctoral theses addressing temporary teachers and their contractual forms in Basic Education. We interrogate the zones of silences of capital through the analysis of official statistical data (Censo Escolar/INEP, RAIS, PNAD/IBGE). The findings demonstrate a shift in education state networks from 473,289 to 781,729 temporary teachers between 2011 and 2024, with substantial growth of temporary contracts in municipal systems and predominance in state systems, configuring a floating relative surplus population of teachers. We also observe a shift of the workforce from state systems to municipal and private systems in elementary education, alongside the maintenance of state systems as the main employer in secondary education. In early childhood education, there has been growth in the number of teachers in municipal and private systems. We identify zones of silence in bourgeois documents, which omit the centrality of reducing the wage mass allocated to teaching workers through reform proposals that deepen the fragmentation of the category. One such example is the long-term temporary contract, which allows greater control over teaching labor through large-scale testing, monitoring, and individual accountability of teachers for student outcomes. We propose as a hypothesis, to be investigated in future studies, that this constitutes one of the factors shaping the “new type” of teacher desired by bourgeois coalitions active in education. This would involve a teacher hired under a standardized contract term, who is not permanent but has provisional stability for six years, after which they undergo a new selection process, alongside increased ease of dismissal for striking workers by bourgeois organic intellectuals acting through performance evaluation and institutional fit criteria. It is concluded that contractual instability is a structural element of Brazilian dependent capitalism, with profound implications for reducing the wage mass allocated to teachers and fragmenting the teaching workforce. The expansion of temporary contractual forms has also provided room for a qualitative transformation in teaching work in the 2020s, as anticipated by the World Bank and representatives of local capital. We reject the hypothesis of a teacher shortage or a “possible teacher blackout,” which is both unfounded and somewhat cynical given the large contingent of teachers attempting to enter the profession but being excluded through selection processes. Finally, we demonstrate a trend toward the intensification and extension of teaching workloads, as well as the deepening of precarious conditions in access to schooling and knowledge in the country. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Mon, 15 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29679 2025-12-15T00:00:00Z