Banca de DEFESA: JULIO CAMPOS SIMÕES

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STUDENT : JULIO CAMPOS SIMÕES
DATE: 12/07/2023
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: CEAO-FFCH
TITLE:

The echo of survival: the formation of the anthropologist´s gaze in Afro-Brazilian studies

KEY WORDS:

Survivals.  Africanisms. Afro-Brazilians. Anthropological theory

PAGES: 180
BIG AREA: Ciências Humanas
AREA: Antropologia
SUBÁREA: Antropologia das Populações Afro-Brasileiras
SUMMARY:

The present study traces the transnational trajectory of the concept of “survivals” – also referred to as “Africanisms” – which became, in the first half of the 20th century, the predominant notion among scholars to examine possible evidence of African culture in Brazil. To this end, survivals were intensely used, but little discussed, luck that accompanies them to this day. The work recovers its previous history until they were definitively incorporated in Afro-Brazilian studies: its theoretical inflections between the schools of social evolutionism, cultural anthropology and the first ethnological studies on black populations in the Americas. We take as a starting point the work of four major researchers who discussed them, Edward B. Tylor (1832–1917), Franz Boas (1858–1942), Raymundo Nina Rodrigues (1862–1906) and Melville Herskovits (1895–1963) and we examine the meanings that each of these authors gave to the concept and the continuities and discontinuities between their theoretical lines. With this, we hope to contribute to the re-discussion of a concept that was dear to the formation of anthropology in Brazil and to reveal its influence in the “anthropological perspectives that we have inadvertently or purposely inherited” (YELVINGTON, 2006: 40).

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
Interno - 1349864 - LIVIO SANSONE
Externo à Instituição - OMAR RIBEIRO THOMAZ - UNICAMP
Externo à Instituição - LUIS GUSTAVO FREITAS ROSSI - UNICAMP
Externo à Instituição - RODRIGO RAMASSOTE
Externo à Instituição - KEVIN YELVINGTON