Dictionary entry about psychoanalysis as a transnational phenomenon.
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First results of a research about "life" as a common sense notion, a scientific concept and a philosophical category in the Nineteenth Century funds of the central Library of the National Museum (Museu Nacional) of Rio de Janeiro... more
First results of a research about "life" as a common sense notion, a scientific concept and a philosophical category in the Nineteenth Century funds of the central Library of the National Museum (Museu Nacional) of Rio de Janeiro (Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro), one of the parts of the institution that survived the devastating fire in 2018.
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The anthropology of the West, as a project of comparative knowledge of the multifarious human experience, depends on a positive disposition towards difference and holism, both as an empirical focus and as a method – in opposition to the... more
The anthropology of the West, as a project of comparative knowledge of the multifarious human experience, depends on a positive disposition towards difference and holism, both as an empirical focus and as a method – in opposition to the scientific style inherited from the Enlightenment and its naturalistic and individualistic bases. This outward movement of anthropology obeys another, subordinate yet essential, ideological dimension of Western cosmology, here described as Romanticism. The paradox implied by a quest for a distant difference and the oblique awareness of the internal cultivation of difference is the key for a critical analysis of contemporary ‘postmodern’ anthropological tendencies.
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Trata-se de avançar o entendimento da experiência da vida familiar nas sociedades modernas como caracterizada por uma crucialidade e intensidade próximas de uma 'religiosidade', de descrever algumas de suas propriedades... more
Trata-se de avançar o entendimento da experiência da vida familiar nas sociedades modernas como caracterizada por uma crucialidade e intensidade próximas de uma 'religiosidade', de descrever algumas de suas propriedades fenomenais, sobretudo a de um culto familiar ( ...
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A tensão desencadeada no Brasil desde 1996 pela pretensão do Conselho Nacional de Saúde de controlar a ética em pesquisa também nas ciências humanas e sociais, além das biomédicas que lhe incumbia acompanhar por força da ... more
A tensão desencadeada no Brasil desde 1996 pela pretensão do Conselho Nacional de Saúde de controlar a ética em pesquisa também nas ciências humanas e sociais, além das biomédicas que lhe incumbia acompanhar por força da legislação, é mais uma cena de combate entre esses dois conjuntos de saberes que se opõem desde o surgimento das primeiras ciências “morais” ou “do espírito”, no século XIX – aprofundando o confronto entre os saberes herdeiros do fisicalismo iluminista e os que emergiram no bojo da reação filosófica romântica. É útil para a compreensão do enfrentamento atual conhecer os fios histó- ricos desse processo e as estruturas ideológicas (teórico-metodológicas) que o animam, particularmente os da emergente e ambiciosa bioética – que inspira diretamente as regulamenta- ções atuais do CNS e o sistema CEP/Conep de avaliação das pesquisas “envolvendo seres humanos”.
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POUCA VERGONHA, MUITA VERGONHA: SEXO E MORALIDADE ENTRE AS CLASSES TRABALHADORAS URBANAS Luiz Fernando D. DUARTE* "Quem teve essa coisa boa, que ea rique sa do pobre, chamada "vergonha", é bom ca rater e nunca o... more
POUCA VERGONHA, MUITA VERGONHA: SEXO E MORALIDADE ENTRE AS CLASSES TRABALHADORAS URBANAS Luiz Fernando D. DUARTE* "Quem teve essa coisa boa, que ea rique sa do pobre, chamada "vergonha", é bom ca rater e nunca o perde"** 1. Se ja em relação ãs ...
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The interview, conducted via an exchange of e-mails, explores Joel Robbins’ contributions to the reappraisal and resurgence of Louis Dumont’s work in contemporary anthropology. Starting from the central concept of “value”, the concept of... more
The interview, conducted via an exchange of e-mails, explores Joel Robbins’ contributions to the reappraisal and resurgence of Louis Dumont’s work in contemporary anthropology. Starting from the central concept of “value”, the concept of relationism proposed by Robbins is explored as the counterpart of Dumont’s holism versus individualism dualism, as well as the unfolding of these notions in an anthropology of Christianity exemplified by Robbins’ research in Melanesia.
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A antropologia contemporânea tem se aberto com grande entusiasmo para uma revisão das bases tradicionais da oposição entre “natureza” e “cultura”, seguindo tendências antirrepresentacionalistas e hiperempiristas que se fundam em um... more
A antropologia contemporânea tem se aberto com grande entusiasmo para uma revisão das bases tradicionais da oposição entre “natureza” e “cultura”, seguindo tendências antirrepresentacionalistas e hiperempiristas que se fundam em um conjunto complexo de argumentos filosóficos e éticos. Ao mesmo tempo, novas configurações das ciências naturais retomam os postulados mecanicistas originais dessa área. O vasto campo contemporâneo das neurociências tem sido pródigo em propostas materialistas deterministas, ao explorar a conexão cerebral da experiência humana com potentes recursos e ambições de grande envergadura. A coetaneidade desses movimentos sugere que se resuma em que se aproximam e se distinguem esses “naturalismos” biomédicos e antropológicos. Mas se trata aqui sobretudo de resumir os principais fios do diálogo tenso que se vai desenhando entre as posições características dos dois grandes campos, com importantes desafios para o empreendimento antropológico; tal como expresso nas ex...
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One of the main features of Burle Marx’s biography is the idea that he discovered the aesthetic qualities of tropical flora that came to characterize his famous new approach to landscape design during a juvenile visit to Berlin-Dahlem... more
One of the main features of Burle Marx’s biography is the idea that he discovered the aesthetic qualities of tropical flora that came to characterize his famous new approach to landscape design during a juvenile visit to Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Gardens, in the 1920s. Having been born [1909] in São Paulo, he is supposed not to have had previous contact with tropical spontaneous richness, thanks to the Europeanized taste that prevailed there. As any young member of the local elites with a disposition towards an artistic career, his family trip to Europe was an essential condition for close contact with the avant-garde tendencies of early 20th century. Ever since the 19th century, that pattern of contact of Brazilian prospective artists with ‘civilization’ had entailed the emergence of different trends of ‘nativist’ renderings of metropolitan taste. In such a context, the peculiar aspect of RBM’s European début was the ‘discovery’ of tropical nature and not only that of the formal, ‘un...
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A antropologia do Ocidente, enquanto projeto de conhecimento comparado da experiência humana, decorre de uma disposição em acolher a diferença e o holismo como foco e método de sua lide, em contraposição aos valores que norteiam a ciência... more
A antropologia do Ocidente, enquanto projeto de conhecimento comparado da experiência humana, decorre de uma disposição em acolher a diferença e o holismo como foco e método de sua lide, em contraposição aos valores que norteiam a ciência iluminista, redutora da complexidade e potência dos fenômenos humanos. Porém, ao assumi-la, dirigindo-se para as fronteiras da alteridade, não faz senão atender justamente àquele mandato "romântico" interno ao Ocidente. Analisam-se as características desse paradoxo, particularmente no horizonte dos saberes "pós-modernos" em sentido lato.
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It is our aim to deepen the understanding of family life in modern societies through an emphasis on its 'religious'-like quality. The description of some of its phenomenal properties, of its intense and crucial experiential... more
It is our aim to deepen the understanding of family life in modern societies through an emphasis on its 'religious'-like quality. The description of some of its phenomenal properties, of its intense and crucial experiential dimension, includes several traits of a family cult (mostly inexplicit). This fact has important consequences for the actualization of the contemporary experience of established religious institutions. The intrinsic 'relatedness' at the basis of both 'cults' take shape in a broad and varied range of empirical phenomena, dependent on the status of personhood within the family structure. Our data include both the results of direct original research within several status groups in the area of Rio de Janeiro and the information available about family and religion in Brazilian society.
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This article consists of a theoretical review of the conjunction between lived experience of family belonging and religious encompassment in modern societies, resorting to data resulting from a comparative study of personhood, family and... more
This article consists of a theoretical review of the conjunction between lived experience of family belonging and religious encompassment in modern societies, resorting to data resulting from a comparative study of personhood, family and religion in urban Brazil, concentrated in a network of upper social strata and in a medical context of palliative care. In both contexts people move in what may be called a “transpersonal ether”, a complex enmeshing of personhood in kinship and religious experiences that far exceeds the limits of the rational, autonomous, units privileged by hegemonic scientific knowledge and individualistic ideology. Our interest is to contribute to the understanding of the processes and characteristics of the “extended self ” in general modern conditions and to explore the circumstances in which these dimensions tend to become more explicit, as phenomenological limits and counterparts to the individualization and disenchantment that has characterized Western moder...
Preliminary analysis of the role of the original romantic drive in the inspiration for contemporary sense of doom and rejection of future in multiple levels of cultural production.