Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte

Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro | UFRJ · Departamento de Antropologia

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January 1968 - present
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
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Brazil’s National Museum celebrated its second centennial in 2018, the same year it had most of its headquarters and collections destroyed by a fire. The date preceded by four years the second centennial of the country’s independence, when it should be prominently added to the general reflection and festivities prompted by the event. In the context...
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Brazil’s Museu Nacional celebrated its second centennial in 2018, the same year that most of its headquarters and collections were destroyed by a fire. The date preceded by four years the commemoration of the second centennial of the country’s independence, when it was to play a prominent role in the general reflection and festivities prompted by t...
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The nineteenth century brought with it a series of renovations in different scientific areas and, also, in aesthetic representations. An increasing desire to be close to nature, to examine it, to unravel it, to systematize it, and to portray it, contributed to the existence of a new dialogue between nature and civilization. The appreciation of plan...
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This article aims to unravel the lines that have carried the cosmological conception of ‘life’ in Western culture into our times, and to explore how this trajectory illuminates current philosophical and anthropological thought. Since the 18th-century vitalism has been a major arena of discussion about the phenomena of nature and life, in parallel w...
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Resumo Trata-se de abordar a “ilusão biográfica” institucional do Museu Nacional no momento da comemoração de seu bicentenário, do ponto de vista de um insider não historiador. Busca-se modelizar os ritmos de continuidade e descontinuidade dos sucessivos projetos institucionais vigentes ao longo dessa história, concentrando a atenção em alguns mome...
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Arthur Ramos was a Brazilian psychiatrist who became a specialist in Afro‐Brazilian religion and culture in the interwar period. He was one of the leaders of a generation of anthropologists who refused deterministic views of race and adopted a positive attitude toward African heritage in the Americas. He relied heavily on Lévy‐Bruhl's theories abou...
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A antropologia contemporânea tem se aberto com grande entusiasmo para uma revisão das bases tradicionais da oposição entre “natureza” e “cultura”, seguindo tendências antirrepresentacionalistas e hiperempiristas que se fundam em um conjunto complexo de argumentos filosóficos e éticos. Ao mesmo tempo, novas configurações das ciências naturais retoma...
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Contemporary anthropology has opened itself with great enthusiasm to a revision of the traditional bases of the opposition between “nature” and “culture”, following anti-representationalist and hyper-empiricist trends based on a number of philosophical and ethical postulates. At the same time, new configurations in the natural sciences return to th...
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Resumo Trata-se de apresentar um quadro ao mesmo tempo abrangente e sintético da circulação dos saberes e práticas da psicanálise nas ciências sociais, com ênfase na antropologia. Exploram-se os diferentes contextos em que os conceitos e concepções da psicanálise foram lidos, recusados ou apropriados pelas escolas de pensamento e tradições intelect...
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This is a review of the main foci of influence of Louis Dumont’s thought in contemporary social sciences. Several analytical currents will be described in which his contribution has been effective, with an emphasis on different aspects of his theories and ethnographic interests. The main areas currently influenced by his work investigated in this a...
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The interview, conducted via an exchange of e-mails, explores Joel Robbins’ contributions to the reappraisal and resurgence of Louis Dumont’s work in contemporary anthropology. Starting from the central concept of “value”, the concept of relationism proposed by Robbins is explored as the counterpart of Dumont’s holism versus individualism dualism,...
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This article consists of a theoretical review of the conjunction between lived experience of family belonging and religious encompassment in modern societies, resorting to data resulting from a comparative study of personhood, family and religion in urban Brazil, concentrated in a network of upper social strata and in a medical context of palliativ...
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Resumo Trata-se de analisar o conteúdo valorativo dos discursos dos parlamentares votantes a respeito da admissibilidade do processo de impeachment da Presidente da República na Câmara Federal brasileira, com ênfase nas características das referências à religião e à família, consideradas como sintoma do poder de argumentos morais num contexto em qu...
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A review of the history and contemporary use of the terms "epigenesis", coined by Aristotle, and "epigenetics", proposed by the biologist C. H. Waddington in the 20th century, brings to light the tensions between the vitalist and mechanist - or epigenist and preformationist - competing tendencies in life sciences in Western culture since the 17th c...
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Los museos de historia natural fueron–entre las grandes instituciones de memoria de la cultura occidental moderna–los responsables de asumir una tarea difícil: hacer coincidir el proyecto de construcción de una memoria, en sí misma neutra, de la universalidad del saber científico con las exigen-cias de difusión particular de las identidades naciona...
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The anthropology of the West, as a project of comparative knowledge of the multifarious human experience, depends on a positive disposition towards difference and holism, both as an empirical focus and as a method - in opposition to the scientific style inherited from the Enlightenment and its naturalistic and individualistic bases. This outward mo...
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During the XIXth century, the transfer of plants for various purposes became increasingly widespread and spanned the globe. The present study aims to inventory the potentially useful species which formed part of the two-way exchange between Brazil and England, based on the information found in the letters written by Auguste François Marie Glaziou,...
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RELIGION AND CONFLICTS OF VALUE IN CONTEMPORARY BRAZILIAN SOCIETY
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A tensão desencadeada no Brasil desde 1996 pela pretensão do Conselho Nacional de Saúde de controlar a ética em pesquisa também nas ciências humanas e sociais, além das biomédicas que lhe incumbia acompanhar por força da legislação, é mais uma cena de combate entre esses dois conjuntos de saberes que se opõem desde o surgimento das primeiras ciênci...
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Resumen La antropología y el psicoanálisis son analizados aquí como herederos de la tradición filosófica romántica en la voluntad común de dar lugar a una comprensión integral de la experiencia humana, a diferencia de las ambiciones biomédicas de una causalidad corporal lineal. Los principios fundamentales de la cosmovisión romántica (totalidad, fl...
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Western anthropology, as a project of comparative knowledge of the human experience, is rooted in a willingness to embrace difference and holism as focus and method of dispute, as opposed to the values that guide Enlightenment science, which reduces the complexity and power of human phenomena. In assuming this, however, while exploring the borders...
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Western anthropology, as a project of comparative knowledge of the human experience, is rooted in a willingness to embrace difference and holism as focus and method of dispute, as opposed to the values that guide Enlightenment science, which reduces the complexity and power of human phenomena. In assuming this, however, while exploring the borders...
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Trata-se de examinar alguns aspectos da vida e da obra de Burle Marx que iluminam o contexto mais amplo da construção da criatividade e da originalidade artísticas no Brasil ao longo do século XX. A relação do paisagista com a natureza tropical e com a tradição artística e científica européia é, ao mesmo tempo, muito típica e muito peculiar desse c...
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Four generations of a wealthy middle-class Brazilian family have their memoirs presented and analyzed in search of understanding for the divergent personal destinies within the lineages - and, especially, the deviant career of a mentally disturbed member of the family. The analytic focus centers upon the process of "transgenerational mandate" that...
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Apresenta o quadro conceitual que cerca a categoria nervosismo na psiquiatria brasileira do começo do século XX, tal como evidenciado em artigo de Henrique Roxo publicado nos Arquivos Brasileiros de Psiquiatria, Neurologia e Medicina Legal em 1916, e enseja sua contextualização na história das classificações psiquiátricas e das representações sobre...
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Based on primary ethnographic research conducted by its authors, this article aims to deepen the hypothesis that contemporary Western societies are not only pervaded by lay, non-denominational, structuring values such as those of individual “freedom” (choice, subjectivity, autonomy, etc.) and “nature” (life, blood, science) but that they play a cru...
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Based on primary ethnographic research conducted by its authors, this article aims to deepen the hypothesis that contemporary Western societies are not only pervaded by lay, non-denominational, structuring values such as those of individual "freedom" (choice, subjectivity, autonomy, etc.) and "nature" (life, blood, science) but that they play a cru...
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RESUMO: A presença da psicanálise, como saber e instituição, modificou- se bastante no Brasil, desde o final dos anos 1970, quando sua presença e influência visíveis na sociedade e na cultura nacionais tinham atingido o seu auge. Diversas análises recentes apontam para uma descentralização, diversi- ficação e complexificação da oferta psicoterapêut...
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It is our aim to deepen the understanding of family life in modern societies through an emphasis on its 'religious'-like quality. The description of some of its phenomenal properties, of its intense and crucial experiential dimension, includes several traits of a family cult (mostly inexplicit). This fact has important consequences for the actualiz...
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A cultura ocidental moderna articula-se em torno da tensão entre um universalismo primordial e o seu constante contraponto romântico. O espírito científico é uma das manifestações fundamentais da disposição universalista, tendo cabido ao espírito romântico criticá-lo e modulá-lo em sentidos e direções inicialmente insuspeitados. A emergência das "c...
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A cultura ocidental moderna articula-se em torno da tensão entre um universalismo primordial e o seu constante contraponto romântico. O espírito científico é uma das manifestações fundamentais da disposição universalista, tendo cabido ao espírito romântico criticá-lo e modulá-lo em sentidos e direções inicialmente insuspeitados. A emergência das "c...
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Revisão de uma linha de pesquisa no campo das ciências sociais em saúde no Brasil que se centra na hipótese metodológica de uma diferença cultural fundamental entre os modelos relacionais de "pessoa" e o modelo do "indivíduo" ocidental moderno (pensado como livre, autônomo e igual). Essa diferença cultural é de particular importância na caracteriza...
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This is a review of a research line present in Brazilian social science studies about health and illness, characterized by a methodological emphasis in the cultural distinction between relational models of the "person" and the modern Western model of the "individual" (conceived as free, autonomous and equal). That distinction is particularly import...
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O recente livro de Mariano Plotkin sobre a "cultura psicanalítica" na Argentina suscita amplas discussões sobre o papel da psicanálise na dinâmica das diferentes sociedades nacionais no âmbito da cultura ocidental moderna. É particularmente rico para a comparação entre aquele país e o Brasil, onde também se deu uma difusão importante da psicanálise...
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Ce travail concerne la régulation morale de la Personne dans le context du Brésil des années vingt aux années quarante, à partir de l'analyse des intenses rapports tissés dans cette période entre l'anthropologie et la psychanalyse. Il décrit les conditions dans lesquelles s'établit le dialogue entre ces deux savoirs, dans le cadre des projets de «c...
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Resumo Este trabalho aborda questões centrais presentes em uma antropologia a respeito de fenômenos ditos da “doença” e “saúde”, que busca desconstruir a arraigada percepção de uma “naturalidade” das experiências do sofrimento, do adoecimento e de suas terapêuticas. No entanto, há toda uma produção no campo da assim chamada antropologia médica, em...
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refina e ilumina aspectos relevantes da historiado sujeito na ordem politica da cultura ocidental moderna, de modo maisfluente e ameno que as obras anteriores, verdadeiros manifestos episte-mologicos sustentados por uma arquitetura analitica de impecavel rigor. Esta nova obra reforca, sem duvida, a impressao de novidade e ri-queza que o esquema das...
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This is a review of the vast and recent North-American bibliography concerning nerves and attacks of nerves from the point of view of Medicai Anthropology. The author describes the analytical instruments underlying both the specific ethnographic contribution and the general conceptual frame of Medicai Anthropology. He argues against the reductionis...
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An analysis of the cultural pattern of "nerves" and "nervousness" in Brazilian working-classes, based on fieldwork near Rio de Janeiro between 1976 and 1984. It was originally a Ph.D. thesis in Social Anthropology at the Museu Nacional / Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro.
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Museu Nacional -UFRJ Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social RIO DE JANEIRO, 1998 2 RESUMO Trata-se de uma pesquisa sobre o conjunto de valores associados na cultura ocidental moderna aos deslocamentos físico-morais cobertos por categorias tais como "viagem", "passeio" e "turismo". Analisa-se as implicações desse conjunto no que toca ao es...

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