J De Pina-Cabral
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 12438 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J De Pina-Cabral |
| PRENOMES | J |
| SOBRENOME | De Pina-Cabral |
| ASSINATURA | DE PINA-CABRAL J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Lisbon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7180-4407 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 97 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 415 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1987 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Ethnography and the fragility of presence
By contrast with other methodologies within the social sciences, the defining feature of ethnography is the presence of the researcher. However, the analytical assumptions used throughout the twentieth century to conceptualize what constitutes ‘presence’ now call for reconsideration. Inspired by a number of interdisciplinary influences, as well as by Ernesto De Martino's formulation of the apocalyptic question (‘can the world end?’), this paper a…
La mangrove et la liberté (Essai)
Cet essai aborde la relation entre les moyens de subsistance familiale des populations à faible revenu de la forêt de mangrove du sud de Bahia (nord-est du Brésil) et la crise environnementale croissante à laquelle nous assistons à présent. Je soutiens que les familles à faible revenu sont en train de perdre la marge de liberté par rapport à la surexploitation économique urbaine que la mangrove leur offrait auparavant
Person and relation as categories
Marcel Mauss’ classic essay on the person (1938 Mauss, Marcel. 1938. “Une Catégorie de L'Esprit Humain: La Notion de Personne; Celle de “Moi”.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 68: 263–281.[Crossref] , [Google Scholar]) remains to this day a central point of reference for all social scientists: be they social psychologists, social historians, sociologists, or any kind of anthropologist. Whilst there …
Ramon Sarró, Inventing an Alphabet
This is a truly innovative ethnography about writing; a worthy anthropological response to Derrida’s deconstruction of the notion. It centers on the encounter between two marginal creators: a brilliant geometrician from Africa, and a seasoned ethnographer who moves way beyond the safe reaches of common anthropological theory to deal with one of the world’s largest questions: what does writing do? Closed in a cell, pinned down to the ground by fri…
Prophecies of Science and Religion
This article discusses three recent books that focus on the mutual relation between science and religion, particularly as it emerges in prophetism. The first is Timothy Jenkins's (2013) reanalysis of a 1950s study on an end-of-the-world cult referring to UFOs; the second is Stephan Palmié's (2023) collection about Afro-Cuban religion in Miami and Havana in its relation to science; and the third is Ramon Sarró's (2023) study of a Kongolese scienti…
Acteon's tears reversed
This article is a "thought experiment" that takes recourse to Lucien Freud's youthful portrait of himself as Acteon-the hunter whom the goddess Diana turned into a stag, as famously narrated by Ovid. In his drawing, Freud's crisis of presence is mobilized by a play on gender differentiation. More broadly, the piece is an exploration of what it involves being present as a person and of how personal transcendence opens up a propositional ontology t…
Of Evident Invisibles
Evident invisibles emerge in the ethnographic encounter which change the whence and the whither of the ethnographic gesture. Long ago, Margaret Mead critiqued anthropologists for ignoring 'the world in between' that makes their fieldwork possible - this article takes the argument a step further, proposing that all ethnographic encounters are fundamentally 'amidst'. Thus, it calls for a shift from translation to intermediation as the guiding trope…
A máscara que sorri e chora
Máscara que sorri e chora. Cachitota (prisioneiro 0277), Machava, Moçambique, c. 1970 Fonte: Fotografia do autor Há muitas décadas que esta máscara anda comigo, de casa em casa, de parede em parede. Acaba sempre por encontrar o seu lugar presa a um prego numa qualquer parede do espaço onde normalmente trabalho e onde passo a maior parte da minha vida. Com o andar do tempo, fui também notando que olho para ela mais do que para as tantas outras coi…
I Alien
What is it to be alien? This article considers the debate concerning alienation/de-alienation launched by Hegel and revisited a half-century ago by Jacques Derrida. It examines the systemic reduction of legal rights of presence that migrants in contemporary Europe regularly encounter. Such experiences lead people to undergo a ‘loss of presence’ in the sense that they question their relationship with the world and the people around them. As Ernest…
The conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture
This piece is a response to Philip Swift’s article in this issue, where he critiques issues concerning ethnographic theory raised in my book World: An anthropological examination. Inspired by the work of Donald Davidson, I argue that indeterminacy and underdetermination are conditions for all communication and that, in light of that, a position of metaphysical pluralism provides us with a better account of the conditions of possibility of the eth…
Anthropology’s Ancestors
Anthropological history is today a growth area. This essay reviews the new collection Anthropology’s Ancestors that Aleksandar Boskovic is editing at Berghahn. The three short books he has published so far are very engaging intellectual histories of three anthropologists of the past who have recently received increased critical attention and whose legacy certainly deserves it: Robertson Smith, Margaret Mead and Françoise Héritier
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally
Since the early twentieth century, generation has been a recurrent concept in social analysis. In spite of successive bouts of critique and periods of relative neglect, the category has never been abandoned. In this article, drawing inspiration from a broad range of thinkers - such as José Ortega y Gasset, Karl Mannheim, Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall - we review and fine tune our conceptual toolkit regarding g…
Field Aporias in Minho (Portugal)
English Abstract: Basing itself in the three aspects of the world that Kant proposed (as source, as domain and as limit), this article argues that the ethnographic gesture is correspondingly marked by three registers of encounter: empathy, company, community. Taking recourse to an ethnographic vignette about an encounter with a man on a bike, it explores the sense of community that marked my ethnographic presence in Alto Minho (northwest Portugal…
The Debate's Conjuncture
English Abstract: The present collection of papers reflects a forum debate entitled 'Doubt and Determination' that took place at the Lisbon EASA2020 conference. The original question that set off our debate concerned the nature of the ethnographic gesture - that is, the decision to engage intensively with a particular form of life in order to situate it within a more common world. We distinguished two analytical moments in the ethnographic gestur…
Charity and grace
This essay attempts to reconcile charity with grace, the central concepts of two thinkers whose views may seem irreconcilable to many: Donald Davidson, an analytical philosopher and the most distinguished follower of Quine; and Julian Pitt-Rivers, an Europeanist anthropologist, who wrote at length on Spain and Southern France. The latter's historicist exegesis of gracia points to basic aspects of human experience that are also salient in the redu…
Company and the mysteries of a dugout canoe
This article examines the mysterious side of 'company', a fundamental aspect of human existence, exemplifying it with an ethnographic vignette about a dugout canoe in the mangroves of southern Bahia (Northeast Brazil). Inspired by Kant's proposal concerning aspects of world, the article distinguishes company both from empathy and from community, as distinct registers of human sociality. Being in company necessarily engages more than two persons i…
The happy story of a “thingist”
This essay is an ethnographic analysis of the life history of a middle-aged man living in a small town in southern Portugal during the “austerity” crisis. Pedro’s initial engagement with caring for older persons eventually led him to a fascination with “things”, to such an extent that his friends jokingly call him a coisista (a ‘thingist’). His life story, as that of someone who has become a specialist in dealing with what happens to domestic obj…
Minhoto counterpoints
In his classic work Contrapunteo cubano, Fernando Ortiz shows how two different plants and the products they yield can be at the base of two distinct forms of life. The fascinating revelation in his essay is how these two products (tobacco and sugar), which are central elements in the emergence of consumer society at the global level, give rise in their local mode of occurrence in Cuba to distinct social environments. In this article I ask, beyon…
Mediterranean Equivoques at Oxford
The article discusses Pina-Cabral life-long need to contend with a series of deeply equivocal attributions of Mediterraneanness elicited by his personal and familial history. The chapter calls for an ecumenical anthropology that responds to the politically relevant questions of the day, not by adopting politically constituted categories of comparison but by questioning them both ethnographically and analytically, and by grasping the inherent mult…
Carmelo Lisón Tolosana (1929-2020)
Prof. Lisón-Tolosana (1929-2020) was a Spanish social anthropologist trained in Oxford of great merit whose role in promoting his discipline in southern Europe was very noteworthy
On embracing the vague
This article argues for the importance of vagueness in ethnographic conceptualization. It suggests that vagueness is not simply a lack of precision, but rather a crucial aspect of how meaning is made and negotiated in social life. Drawing on examples from fieldwork in Portugal, Pina-Cabral explores how vague concepts like "respect" and "honor" operate in practice, demonstrating their flexibility and adaptability to different contexts. He argues t…
When ethics runs counter to morals
In the present conjuncture, Brazilian social anthropologists are facing a major challenge to their work. I suggest that this happens because of anthropology's central dependence on the ethnographic method. The ethnographer's direct contact with the people they study gives rise to an ethical response that moves the ethnographer beyond abstract moral principles. But, in the world of Jair Bolsonaro or Donald Trump, ethics counters morals: the object…
Partible Houses
Vicinage is a word that emerged in Southern African ethnography in the 1960s to describe how, within a neighbourhood, some houses are more constitutionally linked with each other due to the residential and kinship history of the people who inhabit them (that is, due to the continued identities that the residents transport). In this paper, I treat houses as being in ontogeny, a constant process of self-constitution. Much as Marilyn Strathern argue…
My mother or father
How do humans, who are materially composed biological constructs, come to transcend - that is, to see themselves as present in - the world? This article sustains that, in order to understand transcendence in personhood, we have to see the latter as a product of dividual not individual participation, as initially proposed by Lévy-Bruhl and recently developed by a number of phenomenologically inspired cognitive scientists. This being the case, it b…
World
What do we mean when we refer to world? How does the world relate to the human person? Are the two interdependent and, if so, in what way? What does world mean for an ethnographer or an anthropologist? Much has been said of worlds and worldviews, but do we really know what we mean by these words? Asking these questions and many more, this book explores the conditions of possibility of the ethnographic gesture, and how these shed light on the rela…
The Two Faces of Mutuality
The Two Faces of Mutuality: Contemporary Themes in Anthropology João de Pina-Cabral The theme of mutuality has lately emerged in anthropology by the hand of some of our most influential contemporary thinkers. Yet they explore it in apparently unrelated guises: in the work of Johannes Fabian (2001, 2007) or of Michael Carrithers (2005), mutuality emerges as a methodological preoccupation in discussions about fieldwork ethics referring to the way i…
World
Anthropologists often take recourse to the word "world" as if its meaning were self-evident, but the word remains highly ambivalent, often extending its meaning in a perilously polysemic fashion. So, the question of "what world are we engaging?" imposes itself, particularly as it leads to another important question: are there "worlds"? This latter question raises some of the fundamental perplexities that have haunted anthropological theory throug…
Paved Roads and Enchanted Mooresses
L'evolution de la conception du monde de la paysannerie de l'Alto Minho, Portugal, et son entree dans l'histoire. Les liens qui unissaient traditionnellement temps social, espace social et ordre social, confortes par les rituels communautaires
The truth of personal names
Portuguese-speakers, when asked about their personal names, often respond with a notion of the 'truth of' their names. Basing itself on ethnographic data collected by the author in Macao (southern China), Bahia (Brazil), and Portugal, the article interprets this notion of truth as a form of ontological weighing that postulates the unitariness of the person by reference to a subjection to a bureaucratic order and to a cultural and linguistic unive…
Modes of participation
This paper focuses on the notion of 'participation' as it has been used in the social sciences throughout the 20th century. It proposes that there are two main traditions of use - an 'individual' one, and a 'dividual' one - and it argues in favour of the latter. It does this by examining how Simmel and Goffman, on the one hand, and Lévy-Bruhl and Durkheim, on the other, defined participation. Developed by Lucien Lévy-Bruhl in the first part of th…
A pessoa e o dilema brasileiro
O artigo propõe que seja aceito o desafio de recusar a noção de que os seres humanos sejam essencialmente "indivíduos" e que a sua verdadeira essência esteja escondida por "máscaras" impostas com a finalidade de criar uma categoria cuja existência seria essencialmente metafísica: a "sociedade" ou o "grupo
Anthropology’ challenged
This is an essay about the challenges that we face today concerning the public understanding of social anthropology
Thinking about generations, conjuncturally
Since the early twentieth century, generation has been a recurrent concept in social analysis. In spite of successive bouts of critique and periods of relative neglect, the category has never been abandoned. In this article, drawing inspiration from a broad range of thinkers - such as José Ortega y Gasset, Karl Mannheim, Antonio Gramsci, Pierre Bourdieu, Raymond Williams and Stuart Hall - we review and fine tune our conceptual toolkit regarding g…
Xará
In Maputo (Southern Mozambique) and Bahia (Brazil), the most commonly used word to refer to namesakes is xará - a word of Amerindian origin. Although the institutions in question diverge considerably in each of these contexts, the two usages come together in that the sharing of a personal name establishes an alliance not only between the two persons involved but also among their relations. In this way, it is argued that the namesake institution i…
The Functional Fallacy
Whenever the theme of personal naming comes up, both in academic debate and in public opinion, we encounter a tendency to take for granted that there is some sort of collective interest in the clear and unambiguous individuation of persons through their names. “Society” or “culture”, it is presumed, would not function as well if that failed, so homonymy is automatically taken to be dysfunctional. This kind of explanation carries a deep sense of v…
Semelhança e verossimilhança
Este ensaio se desenvolve a partir da noção de que uma condição indispensável para a comunicação é que o emissor e o receptor, por um lado, aceitem que são semelhantes e, por outro, partilhem de um contexto de semelhança. Esta semelhança estabelece os parâmetros de avaliação da mensagem. Assim, a semelhança é condição da verossimilhança. Estas considerações, inspiradas em uma leitura da obra de Donald Davidson, são usadas neste texto para abordar…
My mother or father
How do humans, who are materially composed biological constructs, come to transcend - that is, to see themselves as present in - the world? This article sustains that, in order to understand transcendence in personhood, we have to see the latter as a product of dividual not individual participation, as initially proposed by Lévy-Bruhl and recently developed by a number of phenomenologically inspired cognitive scientists. This being the case, it b…
Brazilian Serialities
This paper investigates the relationship between personhood and family in light of the impact that radical embodied cognition has had in anthropological theory over the past years. The paper is based on a study of onomastic seriality among siblings and cohabiting cousins in Brazil, where it became clear that interruption of the series is more common than full compliance. Since name attribution is a central aspect of launching early personal ontog…
The core of affects
This article is a study of personal naming using drawings made by secondary school students from two small towns in coastal Bahia (Brazil) of the persons who gave them their names. The article explores the relation between namer and named as one of continued identity created by imaginative processes of surrogation akin to pretend-play. In early ontogeny, the person is constituted through a series of mutualities of being that come to constitute a …
Women of the Praia
Turning to life
Life is a concept that is commonly encountered in ethnographic literature. Most social anthropologists seem happy to live with a broadly uncritical approach to it. In recent years, however, it has come to our notice that if we truly aim to take on interdisciplinarity in any serious way, we cannot avoid dealing with life as an analytical tool. In this essay, I examine the notion of life in light of ethnographic theory. I outline three broad famili…
Agnatas, vizinhos e amigos
A categoria vicinalidade descreve a forma como a coabitação enquanto processo constitutivo de pessoas se prolonga temporalmente para momentos mais tardios do ciclo relacional através de formas de agregação que assentam sobre identidades continuadas – isto é, sobre a continuação em momentos posteriores da vida familiar das implicações de experiências de intersubjetividade constitutiva. O texto aborda comparativamente três contextos sociais. Em cad…
Personal identity and ethnic ambiguity
Como fazer uma história de família
É comum dizer-se que o que distingue entre si as ciências sociais é o método, o que não é totalmente verdade: a rica história da teoria antropológica bem o comprova. Contudo, há que reconhecer que, enquanto os grandes saltos teóricos tendem a ser absorvidos mais cedo ou mais tarde por todas as disciplinas socioculturais, as diferenciações metodológicas – as diferentes "formas de fazer ciência" – tendem a seguir as rotas disciplinares. Trata-se de…
The threshold diffused
On embracing the vague
This article argues for the importance of vagueness in ethnographic conceptualization. It suggests that vagueness is not simply a lack of precision, but rather a crucial aspect of how meaning is made and negotiated in social life. Drawing on examples from fieldwork in Portugal, Pina-Cabral explores how vague concepts like "respect" and "honor" operate in practice, demonstrating their flexibility and adaptability to different contexts. He argues t…
Lusotopia como Ecumene
O mundo contemporâneo tornou-se global no sentido em que constitui um espaço indiviso de intercomunicação humana - isto é, uma ecumene. Este ensaio sustenta que a partilha de uma história comum funciona como um catalisador para um sentimento de destino comum e que, por isso, o tempo/espaço que se origina na expansão histórica dos portugueses (a lusotopia) pode ser visto como uma espécie de ecumene no interior do atual mundo globalizado, uma "terr…
The future of social anthropology
The future of social anthropology What is the future of the disciplinary label 'social anthropology'?This question, of central concern to the European Association of Social Anthropologists, was the main topic that occupied a group of around fifty scholars who met in May 2004 at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. 1 In 1989, Adam Kuper chaired a similar meeting in Castelgandolfo, near Rome, where very much the same issue …
Three points on secularism and anthropology
La question des rapports de la laicite a l'anthropologie souleve en fait le probleme de la modernite et du role de l'anthropologie dans la negociation des hegemonies globales. Le secularisme est ainsi considere successivement dans ses rapports a la theorie anthropologique, a l'Occident, et comme ideal politique
Na encruzilhada portuguesa
No presente artigo, sugerimos uma leitura da formação da antropologia em Portugal que assume que a "construção da nação" e a "construção do império" nunca estiveram muito afastadas uma da outra e tenderam sempre a mesclar-se – em certos momentos de forma muito evidente, noutros de forma mais mediada. De facto, numa perspetiva mais ampla, entendemos a antropologia em Portugal como parte do que poderíamos denominar uma "quinta tradição" – isto é, …
Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve
Paved Roads and Enchanted Mooresses
L'evolution de la conception du monde de la paysannerie de l'Alto Minho, Portugal, et son entree dans l'histoire. Les liens qui unissaient traditionnellement temps social, espace social et ordre social, confortes par les rituels communautaires
Prefácio à edição portuguesa
Este livro, que agora é apresentado ao público português, tem já uma longa história. Iniciado em 1977-1978 no contexto de uma tese de mestrado em Oxford, foi apresentado em 1981-1982 como tese de doutoramento. Até 1982, toda a minha experiência de vida adulta em Portugal se limitava ao trabalho de campo no Minho. Entre 1982-1984, já residente em Lisboa, continuei o trabalho de campo e revi o livro radicalmente à luz de toda uma nova sensibilidade…
Pre-Bureaucratic Europeans
On the Supposed Irreconcilability of Psychological and Sociological Explanations
Against Translation
Over the past few years we have witnessed a resurgence of interest in fieldwork with participant observation among younger social anthropologists.1 Some colleagues criticise this tendency as a return to 'traditional descriptive roles' (Llobera 1986: 32). This seems to me a conservative way of interpreting what is in fact a creative attitude (cf. Loizos 1987 and Pina-Cabral 1987). Confronted with the progressive decay of the 'grand theories' which…
Anthropologie et identité nationale au Portugal
Cabral João de Pina, Paulme Denise. Anthropologie et identité nationale au Portugal. In: Gradhiva : revue d'histoire et d'archives de l'anthropologie, n°11, 1992. pp. 31-46
Women of the Praia
Tamed Violence
Cet article analyse des objets ceramiques exhibant des representations d'ordre sexuel, produits a Caldas da Rainha au Portugal. On met ces plaisanteries en rapport avec les theses freudiennes pour essayer d'en interpreter le fonctionnement. L'identite masculine et la paternite se fondant sur la subordination feminine, l'institution du pouvoir phallique, qui se fait implicitement dans la violence, le rend accessible aux femmes tout autant qu'aux h…
What's in a Relative? Household and Family in Formentera
Preface Josep Llobera I Introduction Kinship in Formentera Paradoxes in the study of kinship Family history The complex structures of kinship II Systems of Classification Names and naming ritual Genealogies, names and family memory The name of the house Ideas about kinship and the language of community III Household Forms The model of the peasant family Family and residence: morphology and functions The structure of the residential group (1875-19…
Honor
Susana Pereira Bastos, O Estado Novo e os Seus Vadios
Logo à primeira abordagem, O Estado e os Seus Vadios revela-se como mais um trunfo da já comprida colecção “Portugal de Perto”, da Dom Quixote. O livro propõe-se “olhar para a categoria de vadio como uma construção mítica, através da qual o salazarismo pôde conceptualizar e justificar o seu projecto identitário de renovação e ressurgimento integral da Nação” (p. 271). Não restam dúvidas de que o tema é fascinante. Criados a partir de 1933, o albe…
The threshold diffused
A acção social e os limites do interesse
O texto que se segue é constituído por umas breves notas teóricas que resultaram de longas e fascinantes discussões com Joan Bestard quando preparávamos conjuntamente uma sessão plenária com este título, para a IV Conferência da Associação Europeia de Antropólogos Sociais (Barcelona, Julho 1996). Os colegas que aceitaram o nosso repto teórico – cada um desenvolvendo-o à sua forma – foram Rita Astuti, Nélia Dias, Josep Llobera e Arithony Cohen. Se…
Elites
Wealth and power characterize elites, yet despite the strong cultural influences they exert, their study remains underdeveloped. Partly because of complications resulting from access, scholars have tended to focus on groups affected by elite governance rather than on elites themselves. It is often overlooked that, in order to continue through time, elites have to empower new members. Choice has to be exercised over who achieves leadership, both b…
The ethnographic present revisited
The old methodological injunction to focus on the ethnographic present has been taken negatively to mean a refusal of history. In this paper, I propose that the notion of ethnographic present be used conjecturally to reflect the situated nature of all ethnographic research
Three points on secularism and anthropology
La question des rapports de la laicite a l'anthropologie souleve en fait le probleme de la modernite et du role de l'anthropologie dans la negociation des hegemonies globales. Le secularisme est ainsi considere successivement dans ses rapports a la theorie anthropologique, a l'Occident, et comme ideal politique
Galvão among the cannibals
Colonial domination was not a simple act of violence. Rather, it was written into the bodies and the hearts of the people—"white,” “black,” or whatever other combination might be held to exist. Using the example of the Portuguese African colonies in mid‐twentieth century, this paper aims at illuminating the emotional constitution of colonial power by exploring the uses of the trope cannibalism. In order to do that, recourse is taken to a reading …
Dona Berta's Garden
This is a paper about continuity in change; about inertia and unconscious resistance. Situations of rapid political change, such as independence from colonial domination, lead to a total reconstruction of the political discourse. Whatever the specific status of these ideological projects, they will always have to confront the resistance of the lived world and its immense inertia and complexity. In the middle of postIndependence Maputo, Dona Berta…
Antonio Candido. Os parceiros do rio bonito
Semelhança e verossimilhança
Este ensaio se desenvolve a partir da noção de que uma condição indispensável para a comunicação é que o emissor e o receptor, por um lado, aceitem que são semelhantes e, por outro, partilhem de um contexto de semelhança. Esta semelhança estabelece os parâmetros de avaliação da mensagem. Assim, a semelhança é condição da verossimilhança. Estas considerações, inspiradas em uma leitura da obra de Donald Davidson, são usadas neste texto para abordar…
Takeyuki Tsuda. Strangers in the Ethnic Homeland
Há uns anos atrás, passeando-me em Asakusa, uma das municipalidades que constituem o Grande Tóquio, deparei com um placar coberto de balões coloridos onde se lia “Os Bárbaros”. Logo a seguir, um outro anunciava “O Cruzeiro do Sul”. Perplexo, fui perguntar e explicaram-me em português que tinha ido parar ao meio dos preparativos finais para o Carnaval Brasileiro de Tóquio. Umas horas depois, lá fui integrar-me à multidão de japoneses que assistia …
Como fazer uma história de família
É comum dizer-se que o que distingue entre si as ciências sociais é o método, o que não é totalmente verdade: a rica história da teoria antropológica bem o comprova. Contudo, há que reconhecer que, enquanto os grandes saltos teóricos tendem a ser absorvidos mais cedo ou mais tarde por todas as disciplinas socioculturais, as diferenciações metodológicas – as diferentes "formas de fazer ciência" – tendem a seguir as rotas disciplinares. Trata-se de…
Crises de fraternidade
Este ensaio explora o conceito de crises de fraternidade aplicando-o ao contexto dos conflitos humanos ligados à pós-colonialidade em Moçambique, inspirando-se no conceito de fraternidade desenvolvido pelo filósofo Emmanuel Lévinas. O material analisado é de natureza literária: dois romances recentes, que desenvolvem o tema das reacções emocionais à Guerra Civil ocorrida na década de 1980; e materiais memorialistas produzidos em torno à história …
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