Transposing Brazilian Carnival: Religion, Cultural Heritage, and Secularism in Rio de Janeiro

Oosterbaan, Martijn

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“…In contrast to these accounts of a present inhabited by the past as disordered temporality, heritage work seeks to self‐consciously manage (and by extension, to order) precisely what of the past should infuse the present and to what end. The challenges of managing these projects are the subject of an American Anthropologist World Anthropologies forum on the politics and practical work of heritage making (Dominguez ; Grima ; Higueras ; Lertcharnrit ; Lilley ; Moyer, Gadsby, and Morris ; Ndoro ; Seif ; Silverman ; see also Oosterbaan ) . We also see the politics and challenges of managing heritage in Andrea Muehlebach's () account of a postindustrial Italian town's inhabitants’ efforts to make their entire town a UNESCO World Heritage Site.…”

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Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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This essay reviews work produced in predominantly US cultural anthropology publications throughout 2017. It asks: What makes an anthropological inquiry timely, what sorts of relationalities command anthropological attention, and to what end? Noting our ongoing methodological commitment to long-term ethnography alongside increasingly important online forums for reaching broader publics and responding quickly to emerging issues, it expands the range of work surveyed to include some online-only short essays alongside the larger collection of traditionally published research articles. Characterized by empathic inquiry, frequently drawing on years of ethnographic and personal experience with the places, people, and other entities that we write about, and often attentive to histories at multiple scales, cultural anthropology of this moment, however published, grapples with dark times while it also offers ways of imagining other, better futures and ways of being in relation to others. Two thematic clusters organize this essay: the first considers temporality alongside mobility and sovereignty, and the second considers relationality alongside subjectivity and mediation. Together, all of these concerns-that are both of the moment and long standing-build a varied body of work that grapples with the interrelationalities that constitute power, place, and possibility. I argue that what makes an anthropological inquiry timely is the extent to which it is relationally informed and attuned to care for worlds that we inhabit and imagine, together. [year in review, sociocultural anthropology, temporality, mobility, sovereignty, relationality, subjectivity, mediation] RESUMEN Este ensayo revisa el trabajo producido en publicaciones de antropología cultural predominantemente estadounidenses durante 2017. Pregunta: ¿Qué hace la investigación antropológica oportuna, y qué tipos de relacionalidades comandan la atención antropológica, y con qué fin? Notando nuestro compromiso metodológico continuo con una etnografía de largo plazo junto a foros en línea cada vez más importantes para llegar a públicos más amplios y respondiendo rápidamente a cuestiones emergentes, expande el rango del trabajo evaluado para incluir algunos ensayos cortos sólo en línea junto a la mayor colección de artículos de investigación publicados tradicionalmente. Caracterizada por una investigación empática, frecuentemente extrayendo de años de experiencia etnográfica y personal con los lugares, la gente, y otras entidades sobre las que escribimos, y a menudo atentos a historias a escalas múltiples, la antropología cultural de este momento, independientemente de cómo sea publicada, lucha contra tiempos oscuros mientras ofrece maneras de imaginar otros, mejores futuros y formas de estar en relación con otros. Dos grupos temáticos organizan este ensayo: el primero considera temporalidad junto a movilidad y soberanía, y el segundo considera relacionalidad junto a subjetividad y mediación. Juntas, todas estas preocupaciones-que son tanto del momento como de larga d...

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“…Though not part of this series, an essay by Martijn Oosterbaan () also thinks through contested heritage politics, in this case in relation to the meaning of culture and religion as evangelical parades become part of Brazilian carnival.…”

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Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Tamarkin

2018

American Anthropologist

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“…Consequently, Engelke's conclusions implicitly echo previous arguments: for Engelke, too, religious publicity is a by‐product of, a resistance to, the state privatization of religion under secularism. This tendency is also visible in Brazilianist studies of the public sphere, where secularization has been sidelined even as ‘secularism’ is overtly embraced (Giumbelli ; see especially Oosterbaan ).…”

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On secularity: Marxism, reality, and the Messiah in Brazil

Lebner

2018

Royal Anthropological Inst

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On 17 April 1996, police opened fire on more than 1,500 unarmed protesters of the Landless Workers’ Movement (MST) in Southeast Pará, Brazil, killing nineteen and wounding seventy‐nine. Two years later, Osias, one of the wounded survivors, awoke to find that he had written a messianic prophecy, which he decided to share because it contained ‘a lot of reality’. This article explores what conditioned Osias's expectation that his text could provoke public reflections on reality. As such, it engages with a question unexplored by current scholarship: why the will to publicity might be inextricable from secularity, which I define as the condition of living with secularization, understood in turn not as the rise of unbelief, but as the expansion of a domain of thought and practice distinguished from religion. The ethnography ultimately inspires a rereading of Asad's Formations of the secular, interrogates assumptions about the determining reality of ‘secularism’ and ‘politics’, and makes more visible how anthropological writing is shaped by secularity. With a postscript on the October 2018 presidential elections.

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“…Rituals and celebrations, a favorite subject for anthropologists and Caribbeanists alike, have been well studied in Latin America (Burton ; Manning ; Miller , ; Oosterbaan ; Pérez Rodríguez , ). Santiago's Carnaval, Cuba's most famous, is the subject of several scholarly works demonstrating its cultural significance (Bettelheim ).…”

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Consumption, Temporality, and Celebration in Contemporary Santiago de Cuba

Garth

2019

American Anthropologist

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In this article, I argue that the temporal experience of contemporary Cuba must be understood as co-constituted in both the struggles of daily life and cycles of celebration. As the socialist welfare state has tried to maintain quality of life in post-Soviet Cuba, the daily work of acquiring basic goods and services has increasingly become a struggle (una lucha). Yet, while everyday life is experienced as a struggle, Cubans are often seen reveling in the joyous experience of celebration at parties or annual festivals. Rather than view these events as spectacular, I argue that they are central to socialist temporality and the lived experiences of the doble moral, a set of shifting values and actions under post-Soviet Cuban socialism. Analyzing the ways in which Cubans living in Santiago de Cuba experience the celebratory aspect of Carnaval, birthday parties, and La Noche Santiaguera, a weekly street party, I argue that the temporal experiences of anticipation, inversion, and rejuvenation juxtaposed with the quotidian experiences of the struggle (la lucha) are central to the lived experiences of Cubanidad and socialism in Cuba today.[festivals, temporality, consumption, Caribbean, Cuba] RESUMEN En este artículo, argumento que la experiencia temporal de la Cuba contemporánea debe ser entendida como co-constituida tanto en las luchas de la vida diaria como en los ciclos de celebración. En la medida que el estado de bienestar socialista ha tratado de mantener una calidad de vida en la Cuba postsoviética, el trabajo diario de adquirir bienes y servicios básicos se ha convertido crecientemente en una lucha. Sin embargo, mientras la vida diaria se vive como una lucha, los cubanos a menudo se ven deleitándose en la experiencia gozosa de celebración en fiestas o festivales anuales. En vez de ver estos eventos como espectaculares, argumento que ellos son centrales a la temporalidad socialista y las experiencias vividas de la doble moral, un conjunto de valores y acciones cambiantes bajo el socialismo cubano postsoviético. Analizando las formas en las cuales los cubanos que viven en Santiago de Cuba tienen la experiencia del aspecto celebratorio del Carnaval, las fiestas de cumpleaños, y La Noche Santiaguera, una fiesta semanal en la calle, argumento que las experiencias temporales de anticipación, inversión y rejuvenecimiento yuxtapuestas con las experiencias cotidianas de lucha son centrales para las experiencias vividas de cubanidad y socialismo en Cuba hoy. [festivales, temporalidad, consumo, el Caribe, Cuba]

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Transposing Brazilian Carnival: Religion, Cultural Heritage, and Secularism in Rio de Janeiro

Cited by 12 publications

References 39 publications

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

Time and Relational Possibility: Cultural Anthropology in 2017

On secularity: Marxism, reality, and the Messiah in Brazil

Consumption, Temporality, and Celebration in Contemporary Santiago de Cuba

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