Federico Neiburg
Biographic Data
| ID | 75 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Federico Neiburg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Federico |
| FAMILY NAME | Neiburg |
| SIGNATURE | NEIBURG F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9917-8604 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 199 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Performing the economic man, governing inflation
Images of Javier Milei shift between those that emphasize his exotic and extravagant character and those that take him to be another of the extreme far-right leaders that increasingly come to prominence in the global political order. The aim of this article is to question both images. Firstly, I situate Milei within Argentine political and cultural history, riddled with prophecies and charismatic figures and shaped by attempts to save the country…
In search of intelligibility
Misalignments: House money and inflationary experiences
This article deals with how residents of a favela region known as the Complexo da Maré (Maré Complex), in the city of Rio de Janeiro, experienced price increase, particularly in food and energy, during 2021 and 2022, still in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We use the concept of alignment (and its derivatives, such as misalignment and realignment) to analyse the different ways of navigating an increase in the cost of living through accommod…
Cost of living: Expert concepts and everyday efforts in unstable landscapes
Vivre avec l’inflation: Anthropologie De L’instabilité Monétaire
Dans cet entretien, Federico Neiburg revient sur ce qui l’a amené à travailler sur l’inflation et les indices de prix en tant qu’anthropologue. Les cas de l’Argentine, du Brésil et d’Haïti sont mobilisés pour décrire l’articulation des pratiques ordinaires et des discours savants sur l’inflation, en particulier en temps de crise
Buscando a vida na economia e na etnografia
Este ensaio propõe uma pragmática das relações entre vida e economia, explorando regiões de contato entre ambos os conceitos. O foco são as chamadas "emergências econômicas", nas quais se coloca em jogo o acesso aos "essenciais para a vida", quando não a própria vida biológica de seres humanos. Nas emergências, as relações entre vida e economia passam a ser objeto de controvérsia pública, aparecem nos posicionamentos dos especialistas e, também, …
Oikography: Ethnographies of House-ing in Critical Times
Houses are at once built shelters; collections of relations, affects, and moralities; and nodes within neighborhoods, communities, and larger political-economic and environmental regimes. This Colloquy proposes oikography as an ethnographic approach that deconstructs technocratic assumptions about the house and traces the plasticity of dwelling across multiple space-times, with a focus on the action of house-ing. Inspired by critical perspectives…
Multiscale Home: Shifting Landscapes and Living-in-Movement in Haiti
In January 2010, a catastrophic earthquake ravaged Haiti. In areas such as Port-au-Prince, the tragedy was compounded by an ensuing cholera outbreak. Here, conditions of prolonged crisis illuminate people’s resilient house-ing responses at the intersection of two dynamics: the vital relational character of Haitian houses and the necessity of mobility for producing new life. Rooted in the Haitian post-plantation world, the house (kay) does not con…
A casa e a invenção da família afro-americana - vinte e cinco anos depois
I'm going to die in the street: Haitian lives in the pandemic
Governing the house: An ethnographic approach (introduction)
This dossier is the outcome of an experiment. We challenged a group of scholars who have conducted long-term ethnographic research in various national settings (Brazil, Chile, France, Haiti, and Morocco) to take a new look at their material from the perspective of the government of the house. This project was conceived long before the Covid-19 pandemic propelled the government of the house into a key issue in public debates and policies at a glob…
A (i)mobilidade e a pandemia nas paisagens haitianas
A mobilidade é constitutiva das paisagens haitianas, no território nacional e na diáspora. Há décadas, boa parte da população circula em escalas local, nacional e transnacional em busca de uma vida melhor, visando contribuir para a manutenção econômica e emocional das pessoas que ficam. Este texto oferece um panorama dos efeitos dramáticos produzidos pelo novo coronavírus na mobilidade haitiana. Retornos voluntários e involuntários (como no caso …
Ethnographic views of Brazil's (new) authoritarian turn
In this introduction to Currents, we argue for the potential of ethnography to aid in understanding the present. Extended periods of fieldwork allow anthropologists that are in the field well before the facts-that is, before significant political events occur-to provide unique frameworks for understanding those events, frameworks that can incorporate conjuncture as it is lived by the subjects in the sceneries being researched into analysis that t…
Antropologia E Economia. Tentando Fazer Uma Conexão Significativa: Entrevista Com Keith Hart
Keith Hart narra sua trajetória intelectual desde seus primeiros cursos em letras clássicas até sua conversão à antropologia. Acentua a mudança de perspectiva teórico-conceitual provocada por sua geração e os impactos dessas novas pesquisas realizadas na África urbana, o que, por sua vez, deu outra feição à antropologia econômica que, ao se afastar dos modelos clássicos, avança para uma antropologia dos mercados, do trabalho informal, do dinheiro…
The politics of the real economy
In this special section of Hau (part II), we present four texts that allow us to go further with the objective to provoke the real, ethnographically. We explore the empirical and conceptual program involved in the making of an ethnographic theory of the "real economy," a critical concept shaping contemporary public debates about the present and future of our collective existence. In this cooperative exploration of a concept that holds varied and …
A negociação da Intimidade, dez anos depois. Entrevista com Viviana Zelizer
Entrevista com Viviana Zelizer sobre a produção do livro The Purchase of Intimacy
The real in the real economy
Over the last few decades, and especially following the 2008 crisis and the current period of turbulence and uncertainty, "the real economy" has been transformed into one of the most critical concepts shaping public debates on the present and future of our collective existence. In this special section of Hau, we propose an ethnographic theory of the "real economy" by questioning how assemblages of vernacular and scientific realizations and enactm…
A true coin of their dreams: Imaginary monies in Haiti
This article examines a singular feature of Haitian monetary practices: the generalized use of a currency that lacks material existence as an object, coin, or banknote-the Haitian dollar. I propose a historical and ethnographic pragmatics of currencies and units of measure to illuminate (a) the dynamic of the daily economic life of Haitian people, mostly of those living in the slums of Port-au-Prince; (b) the geographies of monies and calculation…
La guerre des indices. L'inflation au Brésil (1964-1994)
Entre 1964 et 1994, les Brésiliens se sont habitués à vivre avec des indices qui mesuraient les variations de prix passées et des indexateurs qui déterminaient les prix futurs. Cet article étudie la sociogenèse des chiffres publics et de leurs sens sociaux; les relations entre les professionnels et les laboratoires qui calculent et diffusent les chiffres publics; et la transformation de ces chiffres en véritables dispositifs culturels, catégories…
Introduction: Number as Inventive Frontier
Sick currencies and public numbers
Focusing on the empirical cases of Brazilian and Argentinean sick currencies (attacked by inflation), this article explore the processes of public denaturalization of currency value, as a contribution to the anthropology of numbers and money. Situated on the border between the anthropology of science (economics) and the anthropology of monetary cultures, the article looks at one of the main devices created by specialists to 'measure and cure' inf…
As moedas doentes, os números públicos e a antropologia do dinheiro
Situado na fronteira entre a antropologia da ciência (econômica) e a antropologia das culturas monetárias, este artigo propõe uma compreensão dos sentidos sociais e culturais do dinheiro centrada na análise das articulações entre as idéias e as práticas monetárias eruditas e as ordinárias. O texto critica a matriz analítica normativa que predomina em boa parte da literatura sociológica, tributária da própria ciência econômica, e que está preocupa…
Intimacy and the public sphere. Politics and culture in the Argentinian national space, 1946-55
Empires,Nations, and Natives. Anthropology and State-Making
Empires,Nations, and Natives. Anthropology and State‐Making
Introduction: Number as Inventive Frontier
Anthropology and Politics in Studies of National Character
Sick currencies and public numbers
Focusing on the empirical cases of Brazilian and Argentinean sick currencies (attacked by inflation), this article explore the processes of public denaturalization of currency value, as a contribution to the anthropology of numbers and money. Situated on the border between the anthropology of science (economics) and the anthropology of monetary cultures, the article looks at one of the main devices created by specialists to 'measure and cure' inf…
As moedas doentes, os números públicos e a antropologia do dinheiro
Situado na fronteira entre a antropologia da ciência (econômica) e a antropologia das culturas monetárias, este artigo propõe uma compreensão dos sentidos sociais e culturais do dinheiro centrada na análise das articulações entre as idéias e as práticas monetárias eruditas e as ordinárias. O texto critica a matriz analítica normativa que predomina em boa parte da literatura sociológica, tributária da própria ciência econômica, e que está preocupa…
Inflation: Economists and Economic Cultures in Brazil and Argentina
In the middle of fourteenth century in Western Europe, a turning point occurred in the modern inquiry into the nature of money. While political unification of the states made monetary standardization and centralization key issues (establishing the distinction which still exists today between authentic currency and spurious or quasi-currencies), some of the wisest minds of the period, such as Nicolas Oresme, speculated on the reasons and consequen…
A true coin of their dreams: Imaginary monies in Haiti
This article examines a singular feature of Haitian monetary practices: the generalized use of a currency that lacks material existence as an object, coin, or banknote-the Haitian dollar. I propose a historical and ethnographic pragmatics of currencies and units of measure to illuminate (a) the dynamic of the daily economic life of Haitian people, mostly of those living in the slums of Port-au-Prince; (b) the geographies of monies and calculation…
The real in the real economy
Over the last few decades, and especially following the 2008 crisis and the current period of turbulence and uncertainty, "the real economy" has been transformed into one of the most critical concepts shaping public debates on the present and future of our collective existence. In this special section of Hau, we propose an ethnographic theory of the "real economy" by questioning how assemblages of vernacular and scientific realizations and enactm…
Ethnographic views of Brazil's (new) authoritarian turn
In this introduction to Currents, we argue for the potential of ethnography to aid in understanding the present. Extended periods of fieldwork allow anthropologists that are in the field well before the facts-that is, before significant political events occur-to provide unique frameworks for understanding those events, frameworks that can incorporate conjuncture as it is lived by the subjects in the sceneries being researched into analysis that t…
Inflación y crisis nacional. Culturas económicas y espacios públicos en la Argentina y Brasil
Este artículo describe algunos aspectos de la construcción de la asociación entre inflación y crisis nacional en Brasil y la Argentina, explorando la relación entre dos procesos: la progresiva transformación de los profesionales de la economía en intelectuales públicos, y el paso de formas cualitativas de percepción del desequilibrio monetario a formas eminentemente cuantitativas de representar la inflación. Ambos procesos son paralelos a la tran…
Empires, Nations, and Natives: Anthropology and State-Making
Empires, Nations, and Natives is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the interplay between the practice of anthropology and the politics of empires and nation-states in the colonial and postcolonial worlds. It brings together essays that demonstrate how the production of social-science knowledge about the "other" has been inextricably linked to the crafting of government policies. Subverting established boundaries between national and imperi…
Savoirs anthropologiques, administration des populations et construction de l'État
L’ambition de ce numero de la Revue de synthese — a la croisee de la sociologie des savoirs scientifiques, de l’ethnographie de l’Etat et de l’histoire sociale de l’anthropologie — est d’analyser quelques aspects des relations entre la construction de l’anthropologie comme forme de connaissance de certaines populations et l’elaboration et la mise en œuvre par les Etats de politiques visant a administrer ces populations. Dans la division du travai…
Buscando a vida na economia e na etnografia
Este ensaio propõe uma pragmática das relações entre vida e economia, explorando regiões de contato entre ambos os conceitos. O foco são as chamadas "emergências econômicas", nas quais se coloca em jogo o acesso aos "essenciais para a vida", quando não a própria vida biológica de seres humanos. Nas emergências, as relações entre vida e economia passam a ser objeto de controvérsia pública, aparecem nos posicionamentos dos especialistas e, também, …
Economistas e culturas econômicas no Brasil e na Argentina: Notas Para Uma Comparação a Propósito Das Heterodoxias
Este artigo propõe uma abordagem sobre a história social e cultural da economia (e em especial sobre o fenômeno da inflação) preocupada em articular (a) a lógica social que subjaz à produção de teorias econômicas (considerando as trajetórias e propriedades sociais dos profissionais da economia), (b) as modulações das esferas públicas econômicas nacionais (que servem como canais de difusão para as visões econômicas do mundo social fora do estreito…
Intimidad y esfera pública. Política y cultura en el espacio nacional argentino
A casa e a invenção da família afro-americana - vinte e cinco anos depois
I'm going to die in the street: Haitian lives in the pandemic
The politics of the real economy
In this special section of Hau (part II), we present four texts that allow us to go further with the objective to provoke the real, ethnographically. We explore the empirical and conceptual program involved in the making of an ethnographic theory of the "real economy," a critical concept shaping contemporary public debates about the present and future of our collective existence. In this cooperative exploration of a concept that holds varied and …
A negociação da Intimidade, dez anos depois. Entrevista com Viviana Zelizer
Entrevista com Viviana Zelizer sobre a produção do livro The Purchase of Intimacy
Intimacy and the public sphere. Politics and culture in the Argentinian national space, 1946-55
Internationalisation et développement: Les « Di Tella » et la nouvelle économie en Argentine
Au lendemain de la chute de Juan Peron en 1955, l’Argentine s’est intégrée au processus d’internationalisation qui avait remodelé le paysage politique et économique de l’Amérique latine au cours de la décennie précédente. La « modernisation » et le « développement » devinrent les slogans d’un nouveau monde placé sous hégémonie américaine. L’article analyse l’une des principales dimensions de ce processus marqué par la convergence des transformati…
Ciencias sociales y mitologías nacionales: La constitución de la sociología en la Argentina y la invención del peronismo
An Interview with Adam Kuper
Ciencias sociales y mitologías nacionales: La constitución de la sociología en la Argentina y la invención del peronismo
Anthropology and Politics in Studies of National Character
El peronismo como construcción
Savoirs anthropologiques, administration des populations et construction de l'État
L’ambition de ce numero de la Revue de synthese — a la croisee de la sociologie des savoirs scientifiques, de l’ethnographie de l’Etat et de l’histoire sociale de l’anthropologie — est d’analyser quelques aspects des relations entre la construction de l’anthropologie comme forme de connaissance de certaines populations et l’elaboration et la mise en œuvre par les Etats de politiques visant a administrer ces populations. Dans la division du travai…
National Character
Espaços nacionais e circulação internacional de idéias
Mana. Estudos de Antropologia Social foi criada em 1995 por um grupo de professores e pesquisadores de uma das mais antigas e tradicionais instituições de ensino e pesquisa em antropologia no Brasil: o Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social do Museu Nacional (UFRJ). Foi concebida como um canal para a discussão de pesquisas originais em antropologia, levadas a cabo por autores não necessariamente sediados em instituições brasileiras e qu…
An Interview with Adam Kuper
Elites intelectuales y ciencias sociales en la Argentina de los años 60. El Instituto Torcuato Di Tella y la Nueva Economía
El propósito de este trabajo es examinar el proceso de surgimiento de una nueva elite intelectual-estatal en la Argentina a partir de la década de 1950: los economistas profesionales. El desarrollo de esta elite es entendido como el resultado de dos procesos convergentes. En primer lugar, se vincula con las demandas de una burocracia estatal que se modernizaba como consecuencia de un orden internacional cambiante en el contexto de la Guerra Fría …
Intimacy and the public sphere. Politics and culture in the Argentinian national space, 194655 Earlier versions of this text were presented at the Laboratoire de Sciences Sociales, cole Normale Superi…
This text examines a series of family conflicts, judicial battles and political struggles having as their main stage the city of Salta, situated in the extreme north-west of Argentina. This constellation of events merges with the political chronology of the country: it begins in 1946, the year of Juan Peron's election as president, and ends in 1955, when he was overthrown by a coup d'etat. The objective of the text is to analyse the relations bet…
Intimidad y esfera pública. Política y cultura en el espacio nacional argentino
Internationalisation et développement: Les « Di Tella » et la nouvelle économie en Argentine
Au lendemain de la chute de Juan Peron en 1955, l’Argentine s’est intégrée au processus d’internationalisation qui avait remodelé le paysage politique et économique de l’Amérique latine au cours de la décennie précédente. La « modernisation » et le « développement » devinrent les slogans d’un nouveau monde placé sous hégémonie américaine. L’article analyse l’une des principales dimensions de ce processus marqué par la convergence des transformati…
Economistas e culturas econômicas no Brasil e na Argentina: Notas Para Uma Comparação a Propósito Das Heterodoxias
Este artigo propõe uma abordagem sobre a história social e cultural da economia (e em especial sobre o fenômeno da inflação) preocupada em articular (a) a lógica social que subjaz à produção de teorias econômicas (considerando as trajetórias e propriedades sociais dos profissionais da economia), (b) as modulações das esferas públicas econômicas nacionais (que servem como canais de difusão para as visões econômicas do mundo social fora do estreito…
From Nation to Empire: War and National Character Studies in the United States
Empires, Nations, and Natives: Anthropology and State-Making
Empires, Nations, and Natives is a groundbreaking comparative analysis of the interplay between the practice of anthropology and the politics of empires and nation-states in the colonial and postcolonial worlds. It brings together essays that demonstrate how the production of social-science knowledge about the "other" has been inextricably linked to the crafting of government policies. Subverting established boundaries between national and imperi…
Inflación y crisis nacional. Culturas económicas y espacios públicos en la Argentina y Brasil
Este artículo describe algunos aspectos de la construcción de la asociación entre inflación y crisis nacional en Brasil y la Argentina, explorando la relación entre dos procesos: la progresiva transformación de los profesionales de la economía en intelectuales públicos, y el paso de formas cualitativas de percepción del desequilibrio monetario a formas eminentemente cuantitativas de representar la inflación. Ambos procesos son paralelos a la tran…
Empires,Nations, and Natives. Anthropology and State-Making
Empires,Nations, and Natives. Anthropology and State‐Making
Inflation: Economists and Economic Cultures in Brazil and Argentina
In the middle of fourteenth century in Western Europe, a turning point occurred in the modern inquiry into the nature of money. While political unification of the states made monetary standardization and centralization key issues (establishing the distinction which still exists today between authentic currency and spurious or quasi-currencies), some of the wisest minds of the period, such as Nicolas Oresme, speculated on the reasons and consequen…
As moedas doentes, os números públicos e a antropologia do dinheiro
Situado na fronteira entre a antropologia da ciência (econômica) e a antropologia das culturas monetárias, este artigo propõe uma compreensão dos sentidos sociais e culturais do dinheiro centrada na análise das articulações entre as idéias e as práticas monetárias eruditas e as ordinárias. O texto critica a matriz analítica normativa que predomina em boa parte da literatura sociológica, tributária da própria ciência econômica, e que está preocupa…
Intimacy and the public sphere. Politics and culture in the Argentinian national space, 1946-55
Introduction: Number as Inventive Frontier
Sick currencies and public numbers
Focusing on the empirical cases of Brazilian and Argentinean sick currencies (attacked by inflation), this article explore the processes of public denaturalization of currency value, as a contribution to the anthropology of numbers and money. Situated on the border between the anthropology of science (economics) and the anthropology of monetary cultures, the article looks at one of the main devices created by specialists to 'measure and cure' inf…
La guerre des indices. L'inflation au Brésil (1964-1994)
Entre 1964 et 1994, les Brésiliens se sont habitués à vivre avec des indices qui mesuraient les variations de prix passées et des indexateurs qui déterminaient les prix futurs. Cet article étudie la sociogenèse des chiffres publics et de leurs sens sociaux; les relations entre les professionnels et les laboratoires qui calculent et diffusent les chiffres publics; et la transformation de ces chiffres en véritables dispositifs culturels, catégories…
A true coin of their dreams: Imaginary monies in Haiti
This article examines a singular feature of Haitian monetary practices: the generalized use of a currency that lacks material existence as an object, coin, or banknote-the Haitian dollar. I propose a historical and ethnographic pragmatics of currencies and units of measure to illuminate (a) the dynamic of the daily economic life of Haitian people, mostly of those living in the slums of Port-au-Prince; (b) the geographies of monies and calculation…
A negociação da Intimidade, dez anos depois. Entrevista com Viviana Zelizer
Entrevista com Viviana Zelizer sobre a produção do livro The Purchase of Intimacy
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