Dictatorships and Revolutions in Portugal and Chile: Ethnography, Memory and Invisibilities

Almeida, Sónia Vespeira de; Ferreira, Sónia

doi:10.1080/02757206.2015.1066371

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“…This positioning reveals the presence of underexposed memories and how this initiative emerges in the ethnographic present as a ‘non‐event’, as a muted experience (Almeida ) that had been carried out by the ‘revolution's defeated’ (see Almeida ; Almeida and Ferreira ). Past and present worked together in the ethnographic encounter.…”

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“…Their memories are inscribed in relevant moments of Portuguese contemporary history. However, in the ethnographic present of our research projects, the lived past took the shape of silenced and underexposure moments (Almeida and Ferreira ). This was crucial for the configuration of the ethnographic encounter.…”

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“…The specificity of this strategy arises from objects of study that travel in and through time. 5 Conscious of the heterodoxies of the remembrance process (Richards 2004), we intend to develop an analysis of how past time is experienced by the ethnographic subjects, in a process that is fundamentally marked by the coexistence of different, and necessarily mutating, temporalities (Almeida and Ferreira 2015). The occurrence of the ethnographic encounter sets off the retrospective recollection process through the temporal markers that punctuate this backward path.…”

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“…The data presented in this paper aim to meet this challenge because it enables the debate around the anthropological object, but also around the subject who constructs it, the researcher who summons memory: who delimitates and poses a problem, who evokes an event, who instigates a discussion. Recording memories, while polyphonic and multi-imagistic, can just as easily be confluent as they can be dissonant (Almeida and Ferreira 2015). 18 As instigators of memory, anthropologists thus reveal, on the one hand, their interest in exploring a given theme, albeit not avoiding the confrontation with the existence (or absence) of an agenda on the part of the interviewees, who must not be seen as passive agents of the process, but rather as active players with their own history, and on the other hand their desire to share their version of the facts or even to legitimise their version of events in this shared construction (Langness and Frank 1995).…”

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Retrospective ethnography on 20th-century Portugal: fieldwork encounters and its complicities

Ferreira

Almeida

2017

Social Anthropology

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The present article seeks to promote an epistemological, but also a methodological, discussion around the importance of the dialogical moments stimulated by a ‘retrospective ethnography’ (Almeida , ) in two different studies on 20th‐century pre‐ and post‐revolutionary Portugal. The first of these explores the memories of resistance amongst Portuguese working women in the Lisbon south banks during the 1930s and 1940s (Ferreira ); the second (Almeida ) deals with discourses on national identity in the post‐revolutionary period, following the so‐called ‘Carnation Revolution’ that occurred on 25 April 1974, taking the Cultural Dynamisation Campaigns (Campanhas de Dinamização Cultural do MFA) as its field research. We aim on the one hand to identify proximities and distances between remembrance processes that are anchored in different historical and political moments but are both penetrated by a moment of historical acceleration, and on the other hand to explore the methodological demands and difficulties of working in a ubiquitous ethnographic arena, between past and present, memory and history, underexposure and overexposure in the last 50 years of Portuguese history.

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Burying “Zik of Africa”: The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis

Adebanwi

2021

Comp Stud Soc Hist

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This article uses the death and burial of one of the most important political leaders in twentieth-century Africa, and Nigeria's first and only ceremonial president, Rt. Hon. (Dr.) Nnamdi Azikiwe, to reflect on how and why the deaths and burials of significant persons in Africa represent occasions for the (re)production and management of cultural crises. It argues that the extant literature on the death of consequential persons in Africa either understates or overlooks the generalizability of the “essential contestability” of the material and immaterial relations of the past, present, and future provoked by such deaths. This is particularly visible when these relations are disturbed or challenged by the absence of the person and the process of their burial or reburial.

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“I Don’t Have the Nerve to Tell These People That I Cannot Help Them!”: Vulnerability, Ethnography, and Good Intentions

Catela

2019

Societies

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The nonprofit organization where this ethnography took place, driven by the maxim ”lending a hand”, was forced to reduce its efforts to what it considered essential, at a time when austerity was beginning to take shape in Portugal. The analysis of the logics employed to distribute food to the neediest proved to be critical to the understanding of the consequences of apparent beneficial actions in this context. The concept of ”vulnerable” is, therefore, discussed considering how it was produced by a legal instrument and how it was reproduced by a local institution, what were the consequences for the subjects involved in this research and also for the vulnerable ethnographer. This investigation was based on several months of intense fieldwork where different ethnographic methodologies were employed in order to grasp the complexities of vulnerability and good intentions, such as participants’ observations and semi-directive interviews. Although this paper focuses on the analysis of the distribution of food support during a later visit to the fieldwork site, it is not the purpose of this paper to discuss issues of food shortage, but to contribute to the debate of care in the context of deprivation and precariousness, anchored in an ethnography where these concepts intertwine with real situations.

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Dictatorships and Revolutions in Portugal and Chile: Ethnography, Memory and Invisibilities

Cited by 3 publications

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Retrospective ethnography on 20th-century Portugal: fieldwork encounters and its complicities

Retrospective ethnography on 20th-century Portugal: fieldwork encounters and its complicities

Burying “Zik of Africa”: The Politics of Death and Cultural Crisis

“I Don’t Have the Nerve to Tell These People That I Cannot Help Them!”: Vulnerability, Ethnography, and Good Intentions

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