Policing the unstable materialities of digital‐media piracy in Brazil

Dent, Alexander S.

doi:10.1111/amet.12336

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“…Omolade Adunbi () reveals this process of verticality in relation to international NGOs’ topography of modernity and power in Nigeria, a power ushered in by civil society, which as its counterpoint tends to demonize the state. In the case of Brazil, Alexander Dent () suggests that antipiracy NGOs train the police to ferret out and “clean up” civil society's unauthorized use of music and films. In response, we see vernacular forms of pushing back from these purveyors of pirated material, as vendors invent new underground locations that mark the creativity and mobility of informal markets.…”

Section: Matters Of Meaning and Ontological Discoursementioning

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Sociocultural Anthropology in 2016: In Dark Times: Hauntologies and Other Ghosts of Production

Cantero

2017

American Anthropologist

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This essay reflects on sociocultural anthropological scholarship in 2016. The review does not create categories or rubrics-as some reviewers have done in the past. Rather, it narrativizes emergent issues and offers a number of ways of considering how a range of analytics have predetermined our anthropological practice. I survey "dark" anthropology through the ontological turn this year and conclude by amplifying the research and call to decolonize and engage our methodologies. Through this review, I revisit particular conceptions of structure and agency, especially in the context of neoliberal capitalism, and consider how that has forced us to rethink the classic tension between culture and materiality. The year 2016 was marked by a certain specter of death at the interstices of life, crisis, and a burgeoning urgency and sense of reflection on the various kinds of reifications the production of anthropological knowledge manifests. As such, the year saw important pleas, correctives, and reengagements of anthropological discourse and thematic production. The operative framework for this review deploys an anthropological hauntology, a modality through which to make sense of the specters of our discursive being. This raises questions about ethnographic research in relation to its modes of production. [sociocultural anthropology, ontology, death, decolonizing methodology, disenchantment, crisis] RESUMEN Este ensayo reflexiona sobre la investigación antropológica sociocultural en 2016. La revisión no crea categorías ni rúbricas-como algunos críticos lo han hecho en el pasado. Más bien narrativiza cuestiones emergentes y ofrece un número de maneras de considerar cómo un rango de análisis de la información ha predeterminado nuestra práctica antropológica. Examino la antropología "oscura" a través del giro ontológico este año, y concluyo amplificando la investigación y llamo a descolonizar y enfrentar nuestras metodologías. A través de esta revisión, repaso concepciones particulares de estructura y agencia, especialmente en el contexto del capitalismo neoliberal, y considero cómo este nos ha forzado a repensar la tensión clásica entre cultura y materialidad. El año 2016 estuvo marcado por un cierto espectro de muerte en los intersticios de vida, crisis y una creciente urgencia y sentido de reflexión sobre los diferentes tipos de reificaciones que la producción de conocimiento antropológico manifiesta. Como tal, el año vio importantes peticiones, correctivos, reabordajes del discurso y la producción temática antropológicos. El marco operativo de esta revisión utiliza la hauntología antropológica, una modalidad a través de la cual se da sentido a los espectros del ser discursivo. Esto genera preguntas acerca de la investigación etnográfica en relación con sus modos de producción. [antropología sociocultural, ontología, muerte, metodología descolonizadora, desencanto, crisis]

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Section: Matters Of Meaning and Ontological Discoursementioning

confidence: 99%

Sociocultural Anthropology in 2016: In Dark Times: Hauntologies and Other Ghosts of Production

Cantero

2017

American Anthropologist

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“…Like other social scientists (for example, see Lippman 2014), Mose equates this type of cultural consumption to cannibalism because older forms of culture are metaphorically ingested in the creation of newer works. Yet, the question is whether or not this type of consumption occurs via a path that respects intellectual property rights (Dent 2016). Mose notes that because of the growth of the Internet and social media in Africa, along with the spread of U.S. popular music to African countries, conforming to the copyright standards that govern global music distribution is becoming increasingly necessary for African hip‐hop artists.…”

Section: Copyright Africa: How Intellectual Property Media and Markets Transform Immaterials Cultural Goodsmentioning

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Copyright: From Historical Roots to Regulating the Contemporary Complexities of Human Creativity

Omari

2021

PoLAR

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“…Maori gifts, kula shells, and the action of the potlatch were interesting because they were about more than mere acquisition. Contemporary anthropologists still study moral‐economic types for similar reasons—in recent issues of American Ethnologist , for example, authors have explored types such as “hot money” (Zhu 2018), “piracy” (Dent 2012, 666–68; Dent 2016), and “fair trade” (Fisher 2018, 85). But over the last few decades, more patently structural approaches that catalog types and their contrastive ends have gone out of style.…”

Section: Taking Types Apartmentioning

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“Don't gamble for money with friends”

Zuckerman

2020

American Ethnologist

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Some anthropologists have developed “processual” approaches to classification, arguing that we should turn our attention from reified categories to processes of categorization. A focus on how gamblers in Luang Prabang, Laos, use the categories “gambling for beer” and “gambling for money” makes clear that an adequate processual approach must disentangle two kinds of typification: one generic, one specific. People in Luang Prabang are drawn to categories of gambling as tools for both painting the world abstractly (generics) and putting action under a description (specifics). Distinguishing these two kinds of typification resolves the apparent tension between “ideal types” and messy “practice,” and it redirects the study of human classification toward understanding how people mobilize categories for diverse moral ends. [moral economy, gifts, commodities, ideal types, typification, reflexivity, processualization, Luang Prabang, Laos]

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Policing the unstable materialities of digital‐media piracy in Brazil

Cited by 8 publications

References 55 publications

Sociocultural Anthropology in 2016: In Dark Times: Hauntologies and Other Ghosts of Production

Sociocultural Anthropology in 2016: In Dark Times: Hauntologies and Other Ghosts of Production

Copyright: From Historical Roots to Regulating the Contemporary Complexities of Human Creativity

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