Juan Obarrio
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 91286 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Juan Obarrio |
| PRENOMES | Juan |
| SOBRENOME | Obarrio |
| ASSINATURA | OBARRIO J |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 92 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1970 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2018 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Prefatory Remarks
This inaugural issue of Critical Times takes the pulse of the current global political condition, engaging with contexts marked both by the crisis of liberal democratic regimes and by the emergence of new authoritarian political and cultural formations. Some of the essays in this issue analyze the sudden consolidation of right-wing populisms, their underlying totalitarian undercurrents, and the attendant shattering of the political and juridical …
Externalités africaines
Cet article d'ouverture donne les clés de la métaphore de l'externalité qui résume les formes et forces de la réinvention de l'Afrique contemporaine. Elle s'élabore par des techniques politiques, financières, juridiques, numériques, socio-culturelles particulières, innovantes ou régressives, qui relèvent tout à la fois de la sédimentation historique et de la projection dans le futur. L'extraction coloniale, l'extraversion mondiale riment avec le …
L'État et le coutumier au nord du Mozambique
Cet article décrit la nouvelle articulation entre l'appareil d'État et le domaine du « coutumier » dans le nord du Mozambique à partir de deux événements concomitants : un rituel funéraire en l'honneur d'un ancien chef et un rallie électoral du FRELIMO. La reconnaissance de la chefferie et du coutumier par l'État, demandée par les donateurs internationaux, met fin à des décades d'exclusion des autorités indigènes. Pourtant celles-ci demeurent, et…
Thirteen / Time and Again
One / Introduction
African Futures
A matter of Time
Response to Hau Symposium on Obarrio, Juan. 2014. The spirit of the laws in Mozambique. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
The Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique
Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community, which has watched it evolve through a series of violent political upheavals: from colonialism, through socialism, to its current democracy. As Juan Obarrio shows, however, this view neglects a crucial element in Mozambique's transition to the rule of law: the re-establishment of traditional chieftanship and customs entangled within a history of colonial violence and civ…
ER (…) Ellipses
This article explores matters of health and illness through a consideration of questions of temporality. Approaching health as a liminal stage and as a practice of freedom and potentiality, the seesaw between well-being and disease, or the thresholds between life and death, are considered in the light of the figures of turns and returns. Questions of exception, emergency, and suspension of the law are addressed by evocation of the concepts of med…
Introduction
Beyond equivalence
This article examines questions of gift-giving and debt in order to illuminate differences between an enforcement of the law understood as search for equivalences and enactments of justice expressive of more open-ended transactions. These theoretical elaborations are sustained by ethnographic examples taken from local courts in Nampula province in post-war Mozambique. The article shows how a broad range of practices identified as 'customary' enga…
Remains
This essay presents a history of articulations between the state apparatus and the realm of the "customary" in northern Mozambique, throughout periods of colonial rule, Socialism, civil war, and postcolonial democratic regimes. The analysis pivots around the ethnographic study of magico-religious rituals combined with postsocialist political rallies. In Mozambique, current recognition of chieftaincy and the "customary" by the state, supported by …
Bataille's Peak
Postshamanism (1999)
An exploration of the author's experience of studying anthropology and shamanism in Buenos Aires
Introduction
The Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique
Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community, which has watched it evolve through a series of violent political upheavals: from colonialism, through socialism, to its current democracy. As Juan Obarrio shows, however, this view neglects a crucial element in Mozambique's transition to the rule of law: the re-establishment of traditional chieftanship and customs entangled within a history of colonial violence and civ…
African Futures
Remains
This essay presents a history of articulations between the state apparatus and the realm of the "customary" in northern Mozambique, throughout periods of colonial rule, Socialism, civil war, and postcolonial democratic regimes. The analysis pivots around the ethnographic study of magico-religious rituals combined with postsocialist political rallies. In Mozambique, current recognition of chieftaincy and the "customary" by the state, supported by …
Postshamanism (1999)
An exploration of the author's experience of studying anthropology and shamanism in Buenos Aires
Bataille's Peak
Introduction
Beyond equivalence
This article examines questions of gift-giving and debt in order to illuminate differences between an enforcement of the law understood as search for equivalences and enactments of justice expressive of more open-ended transactions. These theoretical elaborations are sustained by ethnographic examples taken from local courts in Nampula province in post-war Mozambique. The article shows how a broad range of practices identified as 'customary' enga…
Remains
This essay presents a history of articulations between the state apparatus and the realm of the "customary" in northern Mozambique, throughout periods of colonial rule, Socialism, civil war, and postcolonial democratic regimes. The analysis pivots around the ethnographic study of magico-religious rituals combined with postsocialist political rallies. In Mozambique, current recognition of chieftaincy and the "customary" by the state, supported by …
ER (…) Ellipses
This article explores matters of health and illness through a consideration of questions of temporality. Approaching health as a liminal stage and as a practice of freedom and potentiality, the seesaw between well-being and disease, or the thresholds between life and death, are considered in the light of the figures of turns and returns. Questions of exception, emergency, and suspension of the law are addressed by evocation of the concepts of med…
The Spirit of the Laws in Mozambique
Mozambique has been hailed as a success story by the international community, which has watched it evolve through a series of violent political upheavals: from colonialism, through socialism, to its current democracy. As Juan Obarrio shows, however, this view neglects a crucial element in Mozambique's transition to the rule of law: the re-establishment of traditional chieftanship and customs entangled within a history of colonial violence and civ…
A matter of Time
Response to Hau Symposium on Obarrio, Juan. 2014. The spirit of the laws in Mozambique. Chicago: University of Chicago Press
African Futures
Thirteen / Time and Again
One / Introduction
Prefatory Remarks
This inaugural issue of Critical Times takes the pulse of the current global political condition, engaging with contexts marked both by the crisis of liberal democratic regimes and by the emergence of new authoritarian political and cultural formations. Some of the essays in this issue analyze the sudden consolidation of right-wing populisms, their underlying totalitarian undercurrents, and the attendant shattering of the political and juridical …
Externalités africaines
Cet article d'ouverture donne les clés de la métaphore de l'externalité qui résume les formes et forces de la réinvention de l'Afrique contemporaine. Elle s'élabore par des techniques politiques, financières, juridiques, numériques, socio-culturelles particulières, innovantes ou régressives, qui relèvent tout à la fois de la sédimentation historique et de la projection dans le futur. L'extraction coloniale, l'extraversion mondiale riment avec le …
L'État et le coutumier au nord du Mozambique
Cet article décrit la nouvelle articulation entre l'appareil d'État et le domaine du « coutumier » dans le nord du Mozambique à partir de deux événements concomitants : un rituel funéraire en l'honneur d'un ancien chef et un rallie électoral du FRELIMO. La reconnaissance de la chefferie et du coutumier par l'État, demandée par les donateurs internationaux, met fin à des décades d'exclusion des autorités indigènes. Pourtant celles-ci demeurent, et…
Political science (7 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · African history and culture studies (5 obras) · Anthropology (4 obras) · History (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Law (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Art (3 obras) · Democracy (3 obras)