Ethnology, art and engagement: Michel Leiris and Alfred Métraux at French Antilles (1940-1960)

• Grant number: 14/25349-9
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Start date: May 01, 2015
• End date: February 28, 2019
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Anthropology - Theory of Anthropology
• Agreement: Coordination of Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES)
• Principal Investigator: Fernanda Arêas Peixoto
• Grantee: Júlia Vilaça Goyatá
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Associated scholarship(s): 16/10861-1 - Ethnology, art and politics: Alfred Métraux and the Haitian experience, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

The present work seeks to analyze the researches undertaken in the French Antilles by anthropologists Michel Leiris (1901-1990) and Alfred Métraux (1902-1963) during the 1940s and 1950s. We aim to understand the intellectual crossings and interchanges between both authors as researchers and employees of international agencies. The relations between anthropology and politics, as well as anthropology and arts, are important features of the authors' reflections during the period, hence their interests covering racial issues and African-based religions. The circulation of both intellectuals in the negritude movement, arising in France at that time, is also an important interest of this project. (AU)

Academic Publications

(References retrieved automatically from State of São Paulo Research Institutions)

GOYATÁ, Júlia Vilaça. Popular Haiti: anthropological and artistic knowledges in circulation (1940-1950). 2019. Doctoral Thesis - Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH/SBD) São Paulo.