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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
John C. Dawsey, Full Professor of Anthropology and Performance Studies at the University of Sao Paulo (2007). Bachelor of Arts in History from Florida Southern College (1973), Master's in Theology (1977) and Ph.D. in Anthropology (1989) from Emory University. In 1999, defended a Livre-Docencia thesis, What makes boia fria sugarcane cutters laugh? Walter Benjamin and Bertholt Brecht on truck wagons, and became Associate Professor in Social Anthropology at the University of Sao Paulo. Visiting Scholar at New York University (2019). Founding director of Napedra (Anthropology, Performance and Drama Research Center) since 2001; and Coordinating Faculty Liaison of the Afro-Brazilian Arts Center at USP (directed by Luiz Antonio Nascimento Cardoso, Mestre Penguin) from 2007 to 2024.. With Napedra colleagues, organized and coordinated Seismology of Performance: 20 Years Napedra (2021); the 1st International Meeting of Anthropology and Performance (2011); the 1st National Meeting of Anthropology and Performance (2010); Richard Schechner Dialogues and Workshops (2012); Napedra in Performance: Creations 1-12 (2014-2024); at the University of Sao Paulo. He coordinated a Thematic Project of Fapesp (2008-2013), on Anthropology and Performance, involving 35 researchers. He published various books, collections, and articles in scientific journals. Invited speaker at various universities, including University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, New York University, Université Paris 8, Universidad Nacional Autônoma de Mexico, Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, Emory University, Auburn University. Department Head of Anthropology (USP), 2003-2007. Between theater and anthropology, explores refigurations of anthropology made possible by the works of Walter Benjamin and leading thinkers of theater and performance (Artaud, Brecht, Schechner and others). Publications relate to multiple themes, such as performance and anthropology; anthropology of experience; Benjaminian anthropology; theater of boias frias; river dolls; the House of Joanna Dark; Our Lady of the Slash-Knife District; and Aparecida and the she-wolf. A set of concepts results from these studies: tension-thick description (descrição tensa); f(r)iction (with r between parentheses); margins of margins; seismology of performance; everyday metatheater; everyday astoundment; sound unconscious; Benjaminian mimetic circuit; subterranean regions of symbols; entrails of dreams; ghost theater; stories of oblivion; bodily index; corpoiesis; ethnof(r)iction; interethnic f(r)iction; tension-thick montage; and displacement of the living place of things. orcid.org/0000.0003.1427.7804 (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This proposal for a thematic project has a story. It is the outcome of the history of the Anthropology of Performance and Drama Center (Núcleo de Antropologia da Performance e do Drama - Napedra) - one of the research groups of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology of the University of São Paulo (USP). At a moment in which various research groups, in Brazil, are demonstrating increa…
This doctoral project seeks to investigate the relations between history, city and cinema from the standpoint of four feature films of the Brazilian movie maker Adirley Queirós (Ceilândia-FD): Is it only one city? (A cidade é uma só?) (2011); Whites leave Blacks stay (Branco sai preto fica) (2014); Once upon a time Brasilia (Era uma vez Brasília) (2017); and Dry woods in flames (Mato sec…
Rituals as a first step to understanding human societies and complementation that occurs between the festive world and the everyday world, holidays public and collective nature, the dialogue between the ludic and aesthetic domains, beyond the materiality of what could be considered an intangible asset categories are essential to be considered as start points in the anthropological approac…
By ethnography and interviews, this project intends to investigate forms of inscribing death in public space, focusing on the discovery of a clandestine grave containing the remains of missing political activists of the Brazilian Military Dictatorship period (1964-1985), in the Vila Formosa cemetery, in the capital city of São Paulo, in 2010.The goal is to understand how efforts to ident…
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This proposal results from astonishment produced during field work in Aparecida do Norte, home of Brazil's patron saint, as devotees originating from the Garden of Flowers (or "Devils' Hole") - located on the outskirts of a city in the interior of the State of São Paulo - followed a course leading from the new basilica to the amusement park. After visiting the image of Our Lady, devotees …
This project is submitted for purposes of applying for BEPE scholarship for internship and research abroad. This experience abroad will contribute significantly to my doctoral research which is being carried out with support from FAPESP scholarship resources. The internship will be conducted between November 2016 and June 2017, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), …
Romain Jean-Marc Pierre Bragard, no: 2010/52148-3The study I propose is based on ethnographic comparative descriptions of touristic experiences of trekking in France and Brazil. In order to understand what kind of place is invented, performed, experimented, and shared during this practice, we should pay attention to its social-cultural construction. The study of the "excursive phenomena" …
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