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Making Sense of an Unfinished Masterpiece: Heinz Förthmann and the Production o...

Heinz Förthmann (1915-1978) was one of the most talented film-makers in the history of Brazilian ethnographic film. But the films that he made at the height of his powers, in the 1950s, now exist only in degraded or fragmentary form, or have been lost entirely, and for this reason, he has not received the recognition that he deserves. Following a review of Förthmann’s career, and on the basis of an incomplete r...

Gaze sensitivity - about the importance of photography in the academic training...

In this text, I try to associate anthropological field research to the photographic act itself, showing what is common in these two activities: the need for clipping, proximity, intimacy and empathy, the decision about what will or will not be in focus. From my experiences at the Escola de Arte Brasil: I talk about the awareness of the gaze, the need to create repertoires and the opportunity that photography of...

Fabrik funk: the fabrication of the everyday reality of a dream

Iconography and orality: on objects and the person among the bororo

This article focuses on some sensory modalities – visible, material and sonic – which allow for a greater understanding of the processes through which social beings in indigenous Brazil are created and transformed. David MacDougall has suggested that the study of visible cultural expressions should be considered an aspect of visual anthropology since “the expressive systems of human society… communicate meaning...

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Iconografia e oralidade: sobre objetos e pessoa entre os Bororo

O silêncio eloquente das imagens fotográficas e sua importância na etnografia

Miriam Lifchitz Moreira Leite (1926-2013): Presença marcante entre antropólogos

A construção de imagens na pesquisa de campo em antropologia

Voyages as exercises of the gaze