Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino

Bio: Pedro de Niemeyer Cesarino is an academic researcher from University of São Paulo. The author has contributed to research in topics: Property (philosophy) & Ontology. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 18 publications receiving 31 citations.

CONFLITOS DE PRESSUPOSTOS NA ANTROPOLOGIA DA ARTE: Relações entre pessoas, coisas e imagens

Abstract: O artigo propoe uma revisao critica de estudos antropologicos da arte e de estudos selecionados de arte relacionados a antropologia. Recuperando aspectos fundamentais dos modos de compreensao e categorizacao de formas expressivas nao ocidentais, busca-se apontar para a persistencia de determinados pressupostos ontologicos (tais como a centralidade do objeto e do individuo criador) e seus entraves para o entendimento de complexidades etnograficas nao modernas. Pretende-se, por fim, oferecer alternativas para uma reflexao sobre formas expressivas diversas que escape dos entraves gerados pela categoria “arte”, valendo-se de perspectivas recentes sobre o problema da comparacao e da traducao na antropologia.

A voz falível – ensaio sobre as formações ameríndias de mundos

Abstract: Este artigo trata dos regimes narrativos amerindios referentes a cena inicial do cosmos e suas respectivas modulacoes da agencia criadora. Atraves da leitura de traducoes de narrativas selecionadas, buscar-se-a refletir sobre o problema da voz demiurgica e do estatuto ontologico dos agentes primeiros, passiveis de serem compreendidos como multi-plicidades intensivas.

Ontological conflicts and shamanistic speculations in Davi Kopenawa's The falling sky

Abstract: Comment on Kopenawa, Davi and Bruce Albert. 2013. The falling sky: Words of a Yanomami shaman . Translated by Nicholas Elliott and Alison Dundy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Babel da floresta, cidades dos brancos? Os Marubo no trânsito entre dois mundos

Abstract: This paper aims to explore the relationship between indigenous populations and urban spaces through a case study centrered on the Marubo, a Panoan-speaking people of the Vale do Javari indigenous reservation (Amazonas state, Brazil). The paper investigates the shamanistic and mythological backgrounds mobilized in the comprehension of cities, spacial displacements and relations with alterity. Through the recent contributions of lowland south-american ethnology, this study offers parameters to the analysis of conceptual problems related to the crossing of indigenous and non-indigenous pressupositions about territories, change and difference.

Virtualidade e equivocidade do ser nos xamanismos ameríndios

Abstract: This article discusses the relationships between ontological variation, translation and the study of Amerindian shamanism and its conceptions of human extensions and connections. Revising some aspects of the anthropological use of the notion of ontology, the article explores some ethnographic translations of copular verbs and its consequences for the undestanding of shamanistic virtual regimes of knowledge.

Mythe et Pensée chez les Grecs

Abstract: Le livre de M. Vernant groupe un peu plus de douze etudes, qui ont en general paru anterieurement, dans des revues diverses : la plus ancienne remonte a 1952 alors que les dernieres sont toutes recentes. Or, le groupement de ces diverses etudes ne les rend pas seulement plus faciles a consulter : il donne a chacune une dimension nouvelle, dans la mesure ou il fait apparaitre entre elles une double convergence de methode et de doctrine, les organisant ainsi en une perspective plus ample.

Cashinahua perspectives on functional anatomy: Ontology, ontogenesis, and biomedical education in Amazonia

Abstract: Ontological dimensions of encounters between Brazilian biomedical Cartesianism and Amerindian perspectivism come into sharp focus in an intensive course in functional anatomy offered to trainee indigenous health agents in Acre state, Brazil. After presenting the biomedics’ rationalization of the course, which centered on the supervised dissection of a cadaver, I look at Cashinahua students’ accounts of their participation in the training and consider the broader implications of this particular engagement between two profoundly different philosophical traditions from the angle of the ontogenesis of meaning. I contextualize the students’ views of the cadaver through discussion of Cashinahua phenomenology of the body and cumulative personhood. Rather than revealing a confrontation between distinct “cultures,” as suggested by the term interculturality, analysis supports a focus on the interplay between ontology and epistemology within historically specific ontogenetic processes.

Embodying equivocations: Ecopolitical mimicries of climate science and shamanism:

Abstract: This article proposes a non-recursive detour for the perspectival concept of ‘equivocation’ by applying it to an ongoing ecopolitical approximation. I will describe how a Brazilian climatologist an...

Alfred Métraux: antropologia aplicada e lusotropicalismo

Abstract: O artigo explora um fragmento da longa trajetoria de Alfred Metraux (1902-1963): sua relacao ambigua com o legado intelectual de Gilberto Freyre. O locus desta relacao se situa num momento especifico da sua carreira, quando, no inicio da decada de 1950, Metraux participa da coordenacao do famoso projeto de pesquisa, promovido pela UNESCO, sobre “relacoes raciais” no Brasil. Metraux costumava se autodefinir como um etnografo e como um “homem de terreno”. Mesmo confiando no papel que as ciencias sociais deviam assumir na luta contra o racismo, em algumas circunstâncias chegou a expressar certo ceticismo diante da suposta eficacia da antropologia aplicada. Por outro lado, ciente da importância da pesquisa empirica, soube desconfiar da ideologia lusotropicalista e, portanto, das narrativas em torno da chamada “democracia racial”. Contudo, seu dialogo com a antropologia cultural norte-americana o fez permanecer alerta diante da possibilidade de que as “relacoes raciais” no Brasil operassem no quadro de um “carater nacional” singular e irredutivel.

Da "representação das sobras" à "reantropofagia": povos indígenas e arte contemporânea no Brasil

Abstract: Anthropology and Art History have recently broaden their conceptual frameworks and their geographical and temporal scope, increasing the interfaces between them. Departing from an interdisciplinary perspective, this article discuss artworks and events that have flourished in Brazil since 2015, in which indigenous issues and indigenous visual and creative repertoires have penetrated into the Western art system. Based on field research and catalog analysis, we discuss the exhibitions The fall of the sky (2015), From the earth, the stone and from Here (2015), Adornments of indigenous Brazil. Contemporary resistances (2017), (again)Anthropophagy (2019) and Vaievem (2019) among others; as well as works by indigenous artists Denilson Baniwa, Jaider Esbell, Daiara Tukano, Iba Huni Kuin and Gustavo Caboco among others are presented and analysed here. Conclusions point to the importance of the art world in the struggle for visibility of indigenous peoples, both politically and aesthetically. On the other hand, they suggest that there is a great distance between Western and Amerindian universes and that translations remain a big challenge.