Olivia Maria Gomes Da Cunha
Biographic Data
| ID | 118778 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Olivia Maria Gomes Da Cunha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Olivia Maria Gomes |
| FAMILY NAME | Da Cunha |
| SIGNATURE | DA CUNHA O M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3321-1595 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 83 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Animals, beaches, stars and spirits: A more-than-human approach to Caribbean ecologies
This Exploration highlights recent and emergent themes in the study of Caribbean ecologies across the social sciences and humanities. It draws particular attention to the field of black ecologies, which extends a longstanding engagement with the socio-ecological legacies of colonialism and plantation slavery, foregrounding the racialized nature of environmental harm while also underlining the various forms of worldmaking and free-dom afforded by …
The Earth Is Sweet. On Cottica Ndyuka (De)compositions
How can we remain attentive to the scale of the environmental damage caused in traditional Maroon territories by the effects of the Plantationocene and the material vestiges of colonial and racial violence left by capitalism? Dwelling on conversations held with Maroon Cottica Ndyuka women living in Moengo, a small town established on the Cottica River in Eastern Suriname to support a bauxite industrial plant in the early twentieth century, this t…
Displacing Wij slaven van Suriname
This essay seeks to speculate on the reception of de Anton de Kom's Wij slaven van Suriname (1934) within a very different context of political debates on race; decolonization; the politics of solidarity; and internationalist and anticapitalist struggles-all themes that De Kom's narrative tackles in unique ways-and on the question of time. The author attempts to displace De Kom's book away from its entanglement of political and intellectual conne…
Recortes E as Bordas
Resenha de:PRICE, Richard. Inside/Outside: Adventures in Caribbean History and Anthropology. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2022. 272 p
The Many Lives of a Journal
Clay and earth: Excavating partialities and relations
Inspired by the idea of “transculturation,” formulated as a contrastive metaphor and concept by Fernando Ortiz in the 1940s, this article seeks to explore the making of clay balls called “Moengo pemba,” extracted from former bauxite excavation areas by Maroon Ndyuka men. With the establishment of the US bauxite industry in Moengo (Suriname) in the late 1910s, subsequent mining and lumbering activities had profound effects on the lives of Maroon f…
Are the things really burnt
By looking at the vestiges of the scientific archive destroyed by the fire that reduced Brazil’s National Museum to ruins in September 2018, this essay seeks to explore what Isabelle Stengers (2000) described as “another look” at artifacts and the histories of science and their archives. By avoiding the “traps” of separating the scientific evidence contained in these archives from the uses they might have “outside,” I localize minor inscriptions …
The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts
The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s. However, the book's goal is not to dig up evidence of the creation of an epistemology of knowledge and its transnational connections. The research on which this book is based suggests that the ar…
Vivendo em mundos saturados de várias presenças
O artigo focaliza as controvérsias e conflitos decorrentes do uso de conceitos como coisa (sani) e cultura (kulturu), bem como os significados que os maroon Cottica Ndyuka creditam às relações entre pessoas e artefatos materiais. Para explorar o complexo trânsito dessas noções entre os maroons que habitam o povoado de Moengo e aldeias localizadas no leste do Suriname, dois eventos serão conhecidos por meio da atenção a alguns dos seus efeitos. A …
Introdução: Entre a Variação E O Descontínuo
Esta introdução explora dois temas que orientam a feitura de etnografias sobre as socialidades caribenhas produzidas por autores brasileiros. Ao apresentar os quatro artigos do dossiê dedicados à análise de práticas de confecção e circulação de artefatos materiais e de conhecimento em contextos diversos, a introdução examina os sentidos das noções de variação e da continuidade orientando perspectivas alternativas e possibilidades de diálogo críti…
Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation
Saamaka Dreaming, by Richard Price & Sally Price
This inspiring book combines ethnography with a brilliantly written autobiographical account of the experiences of an American couple during their anthropological fieldwork with Saamaka Maroon women and men on the Upper Suriname River in the mid-1960s.Saamaka Dreaming could be read as either an ethnography or a travelogue, were the combination of the two writing styles, as well as the authorship of the rich description of the daily life of Saamak…
Escrevendo e Criando a Diferença: Os Maroon Ndyuka e os usos da arte no Cottica (Suriname)
In describing specialized readings about the discovery of a "Ndyuka script" in the last century, the article seeks to analyze procedures that provide context and assumptions of continuity that limits our understanding of the use of Afaka signs in the works of Maroon artists, in particular, of Marcel Pinas as well as young people in Moengo (Suriname). If, for the specialists, the invention of a script was the result of contact of literate Ndyukas …
In Their Places: Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo
In Their Places: Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo
Through Maroon worlds: A conversation with Bonno Thoden van Velzen
This article explores some of the writings of Dutch anthropologist H.U.E. (Bonno) Thoden van Velzen on the Ndyuka Maroon peoples of Suriname and Guyana, focusing particularly on the author’s description of the role of gods, spirits, and other non-human beings in Maroon socialities and worlds. The first part of the article describes Thoden van Velzen’s intellectual production, showing how his professional and political commitments to the Ndyuka le…
Metamorfose infinita: Sobre brujos, espíritos e apuntes em Havana
O artigo oferece uma leitura alternativa de Hampa afro-cubana: los negros brujos, do cubano Fernando Ortiz y Fernandes, e discute a necessidade de problematizar as diferentes ideias expostas pelo autor. Para isso, contesta leituras de alguns comentadores influenciados por sua obra. O artigo sugere algumas pistas acerca do que Ortiz y Fernandes entendia como forças capazes de agir e manifestar-se nos "corpos" de sujeitos afetados pela agência dos …
Exactly As People Tell, or an Ethnography of the (In)Visible Things of Mayajigua
This paper explores some of the consequences of using archival materials produced by an anthropologist's informants. What happens when a resident from a rural area of Cuba is hired to write about the "world", a term used by Carl L. Withers, in which he, his relatives and his neighbours live? By reading letters and other papers sent during the late 1940s, and kept by Withers for more than thirty years, my hypothesis is that his informants took ser…
Unmapping knowledge: Connecting histories about Haitians in Cuba
This article is an exercise in comparing narratives that depict the ‘presence’ of Haitians in Cuba. It focuses on the creative forms through which groups of residentes and descendientes, formally designated asociaciones, are experimenting with new modes of creating relationships with kin, histories, places and times. Rather than emerging exclusively from the memories of past experiences of immigration and the belonging to ‘communities’, these act…
Memória do jongo: As gravações históricas de Stanley J. Stein, Vassouras, 1949
Jongo is a combination of dance, chanting, drumming, and spiritual ritual originally performed by African descendants in coffee and sugar plantation areas in southeastern Brazil. Currently, Jongo is performed as part of a variety of cultural and political practices of Afro-descendant groups in urban and rural areas. This book, a collection of reminiscences, song transcriptions, and primary sources on Brazilian and Atlantic slavery organized by th…
Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age by Faye V. Harrison
Learning to Serve: Intimacy, Morality, and Violence
Based on the administrative records of the Escola Doméstica Nossa Senhora do Amparo and trials involving cases of violence between bosses and maids in domestic space, this essay discusses the emergence of a moral consciousness and a pedagogic discourse about domestic work linked to varied representations of emancipation in Rio de Janeiro in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth. The article discusses th…
Travel, Ethnography, and Nation in the Writings of Rómulo Lachatañéré and Arthur Ramos
Analyses how the traveling to and residence in the US of Arthur Ramos from Brazil and Rómulo Lachtañéré from Cuba, between 1939 and 1952, influenced their (anthropological) writings on Afro-American cultures and religions, specifically with regard to the relation between nation and race. Author describes that while Ramos and Lachatañéré went to the US under differing conditions, in the case of Lachatañéré in exile, and had dissimilar intellectual…
Empowered objects, powerless subjects: Citizenship, religion, and political representation in twentieth-century Cuba
First paragraph]Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940. Alejandra Marina Bronfman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xi + 234 pp. (Paper US$ 19.95)Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, and National Identity. Christine Ayorinde. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. ix + 283 pp. (Cloth US$ 59.95)In the last ten years, research topics such as race and nation have been privileged a…
Tempo imperfeito: Uma Etnografia Do Arquivo
Nesse artigo, os arquivos etnográficos e seu duplo, os arquivos pessoais, são concebidos como construções culturais cuja compreensão é fundamental para entendermos como certas narrativas profissionais foram produzidas e como sua invenção resulta de um intenso diálogo envolvendo imaginação e autoridade intelectual. Tendo a coleção Ruth Landes Papers mantida pelo National Anthropological Archives (Smithsonian Institutian) como objeto de análise, o …
Tempo imperfeito: Uma Etnografia Do Arquivo
Nesse artigo, os arquivos etnográficos e seu duplo, os arquivos pessoais, são concebidos como construções culturais cuja compreensão é fundamental para entendermos como certas narrativas profissionais foram produzidas e como sua invenção resulta de um intenso diálogo envolvendo imaginação e autoridade intelectual. Tendo a coleção Ruth Landes Papers mantida pelo National Anthropological Archives (Smithsonian Institutian) como objeto de análise, o …
Reflexões sobre biopoder e pos-colonialismo: Relendo Fanon e Foucault
Autores como Michel Foucault e Franz Fanon têm figurado de forma influente tanto em estudos sobre questões relativas a estratégias de poder e representação em contextos pós-coloniais, quanto em debates e análises de ordem teórica sobre pós-colonialismo. Particularmente, as noções de biopoder e governamentalidade, originárias do pensamento de Foucault, e as reflexões de Fanon sobre a construção de formas de subjetivação racializadas e coloniais, t…
Metamorfose infinita: Sobre brujos, espíritos e apuntes em Havana
O artigo oferece uma leitura alternativa de Hampa afro-cubana: los negros brujos, do cubano Fernando Ortiz y Fernandes, e discute a necessidade de problematizar as diferentes ideias expostas pelo autor. Para isso, contesta leituras de alguns comentadores influenciados por sua obra. O artigo sugere algumas pistas acerca do que Ortiz y Fernandes entendia como forças capazes de agir e manifestar-se nos "corpos" de sujeitos afetados pela agência dos …
Um Ano Em Que Fizemos Contatos
Travel, Ethnography, and Nation in the Writings of Rómulo Lachatañéré and Arthur Ramos
Analyses how the traveling to and residence in the US of Arthur Ramos from Brazil and Rómulo Lachtañéré from Cuba, between 1939 and 1952, influenced their (anthropological) writings on Afro-American cultures and religions, specifically with regard to the relation between nation and race. Author describes that while Ramos and Lachatañéré went to the US under differing conditions, in the case of Lachatañéré in exile, and had dissimilar intellectual…
Vivendo em mundos saturados de várias presenças
O artigo focaliza as controvérsias e conflitos decorrentes do uso de conceitos como coisa (sani) e cultura (kulturu), bem como os significados que os maroon Cottica Ndyuka creditam às relações entre pessoas e artefatos materiais. Para explorar o complexo trânsito dessas noções entre os maroons que habitam o povoado de Moengo e aldeias localizadas no leste do Suriname, dois eventos serão conhecidos por meio da atenção a alguns dos seus efeitos. A …
Introdução: Entre a Variação E O Descontínuo
Esta introdução explora dois temas que orientam a feitura de etnografias sobre as socialidades caribenhas produzidas por autores brasileiros. Ao apresentar os quatro artigos do dossiê dedicados à análise de práticas de confecção e circulação de artefatos materiais e de conhecimento em contextos diversos, a introdução examina os sentidos das noções de variação e da continuidade orientando perspectivas alternativas e possibilidades de diálogo críti…
Through Maroon worlds: A conversation with Bonno Thoden van Velzen
This article explores some of the writings of Dutch anthropologist H.U.E. (Bonno) Thoden van Velzen on the Ndyuka Maroon peoples of Suriname and Guyana, focusing particularly on the author’s description of the role of gods, spirits, and other non-human beings in Maroon socialities and worlds. The first part of the article describes Thoden van Velzen’s intellectual production, showing how his professional and political commitments to the Ndyuka le…
Learning to Serve: Intimacy, Morality, and Violence
Based on the administrative records of the Escola Doméstica Nossa Senhora do Amparo and trials involving cases of violence between bosses and maids in domestic space, this essay discusses the emergence of a moral consciousness and a pedagogic discourse about domestic work linked to varied representations of emancipation in Rio de Janeiro in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth. The article discusses th…
Um Ano Em Que Fizemos Contatos
Raça, ciência e sociedade
Reflexões sobre biopoder e pos-colonialismo: Relendo Fanon e Foucault
Autores como Michel Foucault e Franz Fanon têm figurado de forma influente tanto em estudos sobre questões relativas a estratégias de poder e representação em contextos pós-coloniais, quanto em debates e análises de ordem teórica sobre pós-colonialismo. Particularmente, as noções de biopoder e governamentalidade, originárias do pensamento de Foucault, e as reflexões de Fanon sobre a construção de formas de subjetivação racializadas e coloniais, t…
Tempo imperfeito: Uma Etnografia Do Arquivo
Nesse artigo, os arquivos etnográficos e seu duplo, os arquivos pessoais, são concebidos como construções culturais cuja compreensão é fundamental para entendermos como certas narrativas profissionais foram produzidas e como sua invenção resulta de um intenso diálogo envolvendo imaginação e autoridade intelectual. Tendo a coleção Ruth Landes Papers mantida pelo National Anthropological Archives (Smithsonian Institutian) como objeto de análise, o …
Empowered objects, powerless subjects: Citizenship, religion, and political representation in twentieth-century Cuba
First paragraph]Measures of Equality: Social Science, Citizenship, and Race in Cuba, 1902-1940. Alejandra Marina Bronfman. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004. xi + 234 pp. (Paper US$ 19.95)Afro-Cuban Religiosity, Revolution, and National Identity. Christine Ayorinde. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. ix + 283 pp. (Cloth US$ 59.95)In the last ten years, research topics such as race and nation have been privileged a…
Travel, Ethnography, and Nation in the Writings of Rómulo Lachatañéré and Arthur Ramos
Analyses how the traveling to and residence in the US of Arthur Ramos from Brazil and Rómulo Lachtañéré from Cuba, between 1939 and 1952, influenced their (anthropological) writings on Afro-American cultures and religions, specifically with regard to the relation between nation and race. Author describes that while Ramos and Lachatañéré went to the US under differing conditions, in the case of Lachatañéré in exile, and had dissimilar intellectual…
Learning to Serve: Intimacy, Morality, and Violence
Based on the administrative records of the Escola Doméstica Nossa Senhora do Amparo and trials involving cases of violence between bosses and maids in domestic space, this essay discusses the emergence of a moral consciousness and a pedagogic discourse about domestic work linked to varied representations of emancipation in Rio de Janeiro in the last decades of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth. The article discusses th…
Memória do jongo: As gravações históricas de Stanley J. Stein, Vassouras, 1949
Jongo is a combination of dance, chanting, drumming, and spiritual ritual originally performed by African descendants in coffee and sugar plantation areas in southeastern Brazil. Currently, Jongo is performed as part of a variety of cultural and political practices of Afro-descendant groups in urban and rural areas. This book, a collection of reminiscences, song transcriptions, and primary sources on Brazilian and Atlantic slavery organized by th…
Outsider Within: Reworking Anthropology in the Global Age by Faye V. Harrison
Unmapping knowledge: Connecting histories about Haitians in Cuba
This article is an exercise in comparing narratives that depict the ‘presence’ of Haitians in Cuba. It focuses on the creative forms through which groups of residentes and descendientes, formally designated asociaciones, are experimenting with new modes of creating relationships with kin, histories, places and times. Rather than emerging exclusively from the memories of past experiences of immigration and the belonging to ‘communities’, these act…
Metamorfose infinita: Sobre brujos, espíritos e apuntes em Havana
O artigo oferece uma leitura alternativa de Hampa afro-cubana: los negros brujos, do cubano Fernando Ortiz y Fernandes, e discute a necessidade de problematizar as diferentes ideias expostas pelo autor. Para isso, contesta leituras de alguns comentadores influenciados por sua obra. O artigo sugere algumas pistas acerca do que Ortiz y Fernandes entendia como forças capazes de agir e manifestar-se nos "corpos" de sujeitos afetados pela agência dos …
Exactly As People Tell, or an Ethnography of the (In)Visible Things of Mayajigua
This paper explores some of the consequences of using archival materials produced by an anthropologist's informants. What happens when a resident from a rural area of Cuba is hired to write about the "world", a term used by Carl L. Withers, in which he, his relatives and his neighbours live? By reading letters and other papers sent during the late 1940s, and kept by Withers for more than thirty years, my hypothesis is that his informants took ser…
Through Maroon worlds: A conversation with Bonno Thoden van Velzen
This article explores some of the writings of Dutch anthropologist H.U.E. (Bonno) Thoden van Velzen on the Ndyuka Maroon peoples of Suriname and Guyana, focusing particularly on the author’s description of the role of gods, spirits, and other non-human beings in Maroon socialities and worlds. The first part of the article describes Thoden van Velzen’s intellectual production, showing how his professional and political commitments to the Ndyuka le…
In Their Places: Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo
In Their Places: Cottica Ndyuka in Moengo
Maroon Cosmopolitics: Personhood, Creativity and Incorporation
Saamaka Dreaming, by Richard Price & Sally Price
This inspiring book combines ethnography with a brilliantly written autobiographical account of the experiences of an American couple during their anthropological fieldwork with Saamaka Maroon women and men on the Upper Suriname River in the mid-1960s.Saamaka Dreaming could be read as either an ethnography or a travelogue, were the combination of the two writing styles, as well as the authorship of the rich description of the daily life of Saamak…
Escrevendo e Criando a Diferença: Os Maroon Ndyuka e os usos da arte no Cottica (Suriname)
In describing specialized readings about the discovery of a "Ndyuka script" in the last century, the article seeks to analyze procedures that provide context and assumptions of continuity that limits our understanding of the use of Afaka signs in the works of Maroon artists, in particular, of Marcel Pinas as well as young people in Moengo (Suriname). If, for the specialists, the invention of a script was the result of contact of literate Ndyukas …
The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts
The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s. However, the book's goal is not to dig up evidence of the creation of an epistemology of knowledge and its transnational connections. The research on which this book is based suggests that the ar…
Vivendo em mundos saturados de várias presenças
O artigo focaliza as controvérsias e conflitos decorrentes do uso de conceitos como coisa (sani) e cultura (kulturu), bem como os significados que os maroon Cottica Ndyuka creditam às relações entre pessoas e artefatos materiais. Para explorar o complexo trânsito dessas noções entre os maroons que habitam o povoado de Moengo e aldeias localizadas no leste do Suriname, dois eventos serão conhecidos por meio da atenção a alguns dos seus efeitos. A …
Introdução: Entre a Variação E O Descontínuo
Esta introdução explora dois temas que orientam a feitura de etnografias sobre as socialidades caribenhas produzidas por autores brasileiros. Ao apresentar os quatro artigos do dossiê dedicados à análise de práticas de confecção e circulação de artefatos materiais e de conhecimento em contextos diversos, a introdução examina os sentidos das noções de variação e da continuidade orientando perspectivas alternativas e possibilidades de diálogo críti…
Clay and earth: Excavating partialities and relations
Inspired by the idea of “transculturation,” formulated as a contrastive metaphor and concept by Fernando Ortiz in the 1940s, this article seeks to explore the making of clay balls called “Moengo pemba,” extracted from former bauxite excavation areas by Maroon Ndyuka men. With the establishment of the US bauxite industry in Moengo (Suriname) in the late 1910s, subsequent mining and lumbering activities had profound effects on the lives of Maroon f…
Are the things really burnt
By looking at the vestiges of the scientific archive destroyed by the fire that reduced Brazil’s National Museum to ruins in September 2018, this essay seeks to explore what Isabelle Stengers (2000) described as “another look” at artifacts and the histories of science and their archives. By avoiding the “traps” of separating the scientific evidence contained in these archives from the uses they might have “outside,” I localize minor inscriptions …
The Many Lives of a Journal
Displacing Wij slaven van Suriname
This essay seeks to speculate on the reception of de Anton de Kom's Wij slaven van Suriname (1934) within a very different context of political debates on race; decolonization; the politics of solidarity; and internationalist and anticapitalist struggles-all themes that De Kom's narrative tackles in unique ways-and on the question of time. The author attempts to displace De Kom's book away from its entanglement of political and intellectual conne…
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