http://hdl.handle.net/11422/16 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:08:56 GMT 2026-04-07T19:08:56Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29003 Title: Eticas ordinarias: relaciones de vecindad, tensiones morales y horizontes de violencia en el Valle del Risaralda Author(s)/Inventor(s): Salazar, Sergio Advisor: Comerford, John Cunha Abstract: This thesis addresses ordinary ethics and, in this context, the construction of moral values in the daily life of a community in the Risaralda Valley, Colombia. Based on the ethnographic description and analysis of everyday situations in the village of El Mañana, municipality of Viterbo, related to land ownership, work, use and disputes over the control of traffic on public roads, relationships with the natural environment, forms of agricultural and livestock production, and the construction of killable subjects, it reveals moral tensions that emerge in daily life, especially manifest in neighborhood relations. In these tensions, the presence, whether spectral or material of violence, becomes evident, which in one way or another emerges and affects the construction of moral values and social relations of the inhabitants. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Mon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/29003 2025-02-24T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/28998 Title: Criando meninos e meninas de respeito: relações e dinâmicas de criação do povo quilombola de Alegre-MG Author(s)/Inventor(s): Virgílio, Nathan Lima Advisor: Comerford, John Cunha Abstract: This thesis was developed based on fieldwork conducted in the Quilombola Community of Alegre, located in the rural area of the municipality of Januária, in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil. The fieldwork took place over a period of slightly less than a year, divided between a longer stay during 2019 and a shorter stay of two weeks at the beginning of 2021, in a context still affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. The thesis focuses on the process of raising Black quilombola children from rural areas in the Quilombo of Alegre. Special attention is given to the participation of these children in their own upbringing process, whether through the assistance they provide to their adult relatives — which creates bonds of "consideration" between them — or through their unique ways of experiencing the quilombola territory, as well as the practices, relationships, ways of being, and ways of living that permeate and give meaning to life in the quilombo. Central to the process of raising children in Alegre are the women —grandmothers, mothers, aunts, sisters, and cousins —who mutually assist one another in raising their sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters, nephews and nieces, establishing a network of aid mobilized by those who have children to raise. For these women, the greatest challenge lies in the ethical formation of their children in a world that has treated Black people with varying degrees of subtle or overt indignity and violence. It is worth noting that, historically, the residents of Alegre have sought better employment and income opportunities in the outskirts of large cities in Minas Gerais and São Paulo, as well as on coffee plantations in southern Minas Gerais and Alto Parnaíba. The prospect of raising children who will eventually leave the quilombo to seek work, or, as has become slightly more common, better educational and academic opportunities, remains a part of their horizon of creation. Within this context, the women of the quilombo mobilize stories, practices, and, when necessary, even "surras" to ensure that their children grow up "courageous" enough to fight for their dignity and capable of cultivating respect for themselves and their relatives. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Fri, 21 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/28998 2025-02-21T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/28977 Title: Um Rio de perigos e medos: o aspecto ameaçador da violência Author(s)/Inventor(s): Soares, André Luiz Gomes Advisor: Misse, Michel Abstract: This thesis presents a perspective on the relationship between fear and urban violence, highlighting the contemporary features of this association within the context of Rio de Janeiro. This urban fabric is approached as a qualitative case study, with temporal and situational variation, aiming to observe the interaction between these elements through social practice. Accordingly, the beliefs that construct a threatening aspect in certain dangers associated with this type of violence constitute the object of the research, making it possible to identify a specific — and simultaneous — process of sedimentation and recognition of that which becomes subject to manifestations of fear in everyday life. The general objective of this research is to understand how a set of beliefs weaves together dangers and fears in the construction of a particular interpretive framework regarding urban violence, also seeking to understand how individuals make use of this framework in their everyday lives. This dissertation argues that such a framework — referred to as the threatening aspect of violence — is the result of processes inherent to the social accumulation of violence, especially those that transform the phenomenon into a sign of diffuse danger, a specter that symbolizes urban chaos. Positioned within this perspective as an auxiliary tool, the threatening aspect of violence is identified as a specific repository of meanings, grounded in threats that qualify the significance of violence, capable of structuring ways of inhabiting the city, relating to others, and occupying space on a daily basis. The enactment of actions embedded in the interplay between ways of thinking and modes of acting within this framework is mediated by manifestations of fear, which recognize the established consequences of threats and guide protective strategies for the continuation of life. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Tese Fri, 08 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/28977 2025-08-08T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/11422/28973 Title: Antropologia perante as cotas raciais (2000-2010): raça e projeto de nação Author(s)/Inventor(s): Ventura, Millena Juliette Teles Moraes Advisor: Véran, Jean-François Abstract: This thesis investigates how the implementation of racial quotas in higher education was addressed in Brazilian anthropological production between 2000 and 2010. The central objective is to understand how the debate on affirmative action impacted the discipline, generating conceptual disputes over race, nation-building, and the role of anthropology in the formulation of public policies. Specifically, the study examines how racial quotas became an anthropological public issue, identifying key theoretical divergences among researchers, analyzing the mobilization of concepts such as justice and affirmative action, and investigating the tensions arising from the different academic and institutional positions of scholars. To conduct the research, both qualitative and quantitative approaches were employed, including an analysis of articles published in academic journals, a mapping of the academic trajectories of scholars involved in the debate, and their participation in public arenas, such as manifestos in favor of or against racial quotas. The longitudinal analysis made it possible to observe how anthropological production was affected by the controversy at different moments, while the study of intellectual networks highlighted the centrality of certain universities in the debate. The findings indicate that anthropology not only reflected the political and social disputes surrounding racial quotas but also underwent internal transformations, reassessing its categorizations and theoretical articulations. Publisher: Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro Type: Dissertação Tue, 29 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT http://hdl.handle.net/11422/28973 2025-04-29T00:00:00Z