André Botelho, Editor-in-Chief

INTRODUCTION

We open Issue 3 Volume 8 of Sociologia & Antropologia with a declaration of our solidarity with the National Museum of the UFRJ and our colleagues who work there. The fire that destroyed the historical building in the Quinta da Boa Vista Park on the night of September 2nd was a tragedy for our university and, moreover, for the broader academic community and Brazilian society as a whole. We particularly express our support for colleagues from PPGAS and the journal Mana, friends and partners of Sociologia & Antropologia. The National Museum is also found at the centre of the current issue, specifi- cally its role in training anthropologists and sociologists studying urban phenomena in , especially the favelas of . The issue presents a set of original texts on the US anthropologist Anthony Leeds who, having made a big impact during his time at the National Museum, was one of the pioneers in this field of research in the country. A field of research that would later be complemented, at the same institu- tion, by the works in urban anthropology of the late and much-missed Gilberto Velho. The issue begins with an interview about Anthony Leeds conducted by Nísia Trindade and Rachel de Almeida Viana with Elizabeth Leeds and Luiz Antonio Machado da Silva. The interviewers also present an article in which they analyse the works produced in Brazil by Anthony Leeds, comparing his doctoral thesis on the cacao zone, his research on Brazilian careers and the analysis of favelas. They argued that the study of Rio de Janeiro’s favela, in particular, allowed a greater re- finement of Leeds’s reflections on social organization in Brazil. Katherine Donahue’s article focuses on Leeds’s work outside Brazil, a dimen- sion still largely unknown, especially to the Brazilian public. Covering his research in , Lima, the hill villages of Texas, Chukchi reindeer herders, Melanesian pig breeders, and Portuguese migrant labourers, the author emphasizes Leeds’s contri- bution to the theoretical understanding of the links between rural and urban worlds. “How much is a favela worth” publishes for the first time the text of the lecture given by Anthony Leeds in 1968 at the Rio de Janeiro Museum of Modern Art, accom- panied by comments from Mariana Cavalcanti. In this talk, Leeds takes an innova- tive approach to the theme of the infrastructural investments and capital circulating dec., 2018 dec., in Rio’s favelas by criticizing the view prevalent at the time of the favela as a problem. Instead he discusses this alternative residential location through the agency of ur-

726, sep.– 726, ban workers, as an urban life project that responds to a situation of deep inequality. – The research record “Anthony Leeds: forgetting and memory” contains two texts. The first is by Licia do Prado Valladares, one of the main scholars of urban issues and favelas in Brazil, and testifies to the importance of Anthony Leeds’s work, despite the fact it has been forgotten by new generations of researchers. The text represents a talk given at the inauguration of the Anthony Leeds Archive at FIOCRUZ’s Casa de Oswaldo Cruz. The second is the technical note by the collection’s organizers Aline Lopes de Lacerda and Ana Luce Girão. Photographs accompany both texts, translating the richness of Leeds’s approach in taking the residents with whom he interacted in his research as active subjects in the coproduction of the favela and the city. The role and meanings of the intellectual construction of Alfredo Volpi by the critic Mário Pedrosa in relation to the modernist aesthetic canons of the 1950s are discussed by Marcos Pedro Rosa in “A tale of masters and islands: Volpi claimed by Mário Pedrosa.” sociol. antropol. | rio de janeiro, v.08.03: 725 | rio de janeiro, antropol. sociol. sociol. antropol. | rio de janeiro, v.08.03: 725 – 726, set.– ago., 2018 introduction |andrébotelho editor-in-chief Trump’s politicalperformances, theideology codified by Bannonhasproved capable of producing perverse effectsinthecontemporary democratic order. Aside from the ed powerful narratives through binary simplificationsofpoliticalconflict, purifying of USsociology today. texts onculturaloriginal sociology, undoubtedly oneofthemost influentialstrands exander’s articlealsofunctionsasanintroduction ofsortstohis thought, given that considered oftheDonald theprincipalideologist Trump government, hasconstruct categories ofcultural sociology formulated inhisearlierwork, analyses how Bannon, asking, inprovocative fashion, towhatpointitwas able totranscend itsenviron aspect ofthe Brazilian cultural tradition, the relation between and copy, original analyse therole played by thevarious formaldimensionsofacritiqueinitsrealiza the groups thatsupposedly embody the ‘real America’ – nationalists, whites and tory, observed especially inpostersfrom the2013and2014demonstrations that that is, constantly adaptedtoavoid theformationofcriticalmoments, andaccusa the region aftertheimplantationofaPolice Pacification Unit (UPP). Ontheother tion. Ononehand, they explore themutual critiquesbetween residents ofaRio the farms, indomesticandcommercial activities, andinthelocalpublic authorities. the municipality peoplesintheregion, silencestheexistence ofindigenous and the meaningsofOswald de Andrade’s Anthropophagy, butalsoonitswidersense, context,the latterinitsoriginal Bernardo Ricupero aimstoshedlightnotonly on through oneofitsmostsuccessfulcultural movements, Anthropophagy. Situating tourists whoincreasingly travel tothearchipelago insearch of African experiences Sociologia & Antropologia willfindinournext issue(1/9 of2019)aset readers ofSociologia rina Frid and William Corbo. similarly ignores thefundamentalcontributionmadeby the Terena asworkers on sents anotherhistory ofthepresence ofthe Terena inthestateofMatoGrosso do Christians –andlegitimizing theexclusion of allothers. Powerfully amplified in used humourtocommentironically onthecountry’s politicalsituation. Cape Verde, especially through therelations between Cape Verdeans andEuropean Sul who, in1933, foundedacommunity known as Aldeinha. The officialhistory of favela andthepower supply company thatbegan tooperate more intensively in Rodrigues of Bachur onthebook Teoria dos sistemas naprática, v. by I(Estrutura socialesemântica), hand, they analyse how critiqueismobilizedinahumorous form, bothmodulated, ment: the ideology of Steven Bannon,” in which Jeffrey Alexander, making use of ment andhow faritcanbecompared torecent postcolonialformulations. paraíso doconsumo:ÉmileZola, amagiaeosgrandes magazines, by Everardo Rocha, Ma Miceli. And finally the review by LíviaBoeschenstein and José CarlosRodrigues ofO interest in terms of thinking about the current political context in Brazil, Jeffrey Al Niklas Luhmann, recently published by Editora Vozes. The review by LidianeSoares in acalm, paradisiacal, exotic andtropical environment. “Africa... butnotmuch!” by Andréa Lobo, discussestourismand Africanity in We hopeeveryone enjoys theread. Closing this issue are three reviews. “The practice of theory” by João Paulo Completing the articles in this issue, we have “Raging against theEnlighten In “Aldeinha: theleftbankof Aquidauana River,” MessiasBasquespre In “Critique-form, formsofcritique,” Alexandre Werneck andPricilaLoretti Modernism returns key inanothersociological inthediscussionofacentral Sonhos daperiferia. Inteligênciaargentina e mecenato privado, by Sergio ------Elina Pessanha

BEATRIZ

Este número da revista estava sendo fechado quando ocorreu o falecimento de nossa amiga e colega Beatriz Alasia de Heredia. Historiadora de formação, refugiada da ditadura argentina dos anos 1970, Beatriz realizou mestrado e doutorado em antropologia social no Museu Nacional, e pós-doutorado na École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, na França, onde foi também professora visitante. Tornou-se, em 1979, professora do Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Sociais e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Sociologia e Antropologia (PPG- SA) da UFRJ, além de pesquisadora 1 do CNPq e Cientista do Nosso Estado da Faperj. Foi autora ou organizadora de 12 livros e publicou cerca de 70 artigos e capítulos, tendo orientado mais de 30 dissertações e teses. Depois de ter sido chefe de departamento e coordenadora do PPGSA, era no momento vice-diretora do Colégio Brasileiro de Altos Estudos − CBAE, também de nossa universidade. Sua contribuição à antropologia foi marcada pela originalidade na intro- dução − junto a seus parceiros acadêmicos mais próximos, como Moacir Pal- meira, Afrânio e Marie-France Garcia, José Sérgio Leite Lopes, Rosilene Alvim e a saudosa Lygia Sigaud, entre outros − de temas e abordagens que atravessaram, no seu caso, a experiência camponesa no Nordeste, os assentamentos rurais e a reforma agrária, a antropologia (da) política, a expansão do agronegócio, os movimentos sociais e a esfera pública... Professora querida e admirada por seus alunos, a marca de suas aulas, pesquisas e escritos vinha da observação aguda dos grandes processos – “compostos por inumeráveis e às vezes imperceptíveis ações cotidianas”, como lembrava −, mas também da capacidade e sensibili- dade para ouvir os vários sujeitos das relações sociais, expondo as diferentes perspectivas em contato e revelando as principais contradições. Dialogando com aportes teóricos que passavam por Eric Wolf, pelo mar- xismo, pela antropologia estrutural e pela sociologia reflexiva de Bourdieu, no- ções como modelos de dominação − entre as classes, mas também no interior delas, reproduzindo a desigualdade − ou lógicas da política, diferenciadas e convivendo hierarquicamente entre si, revelavam complexidades e ganhavam vida, influen- ciando outros trabalhos científicos nacionais e latino-americanos especialmente, bem como possibilitando sua apropriação social e política pelos movimentos coletivos e organizações populares que Beatriz assessorava. Nestes tempos de recrudescimento de propostas políticas autoritárias, de ataques à universidade, à diversidade sociocultural e aos direitos humanos fundamentais tão duramente conquistados, as homenagens a Beatriz devem também se traduzir no compromisso de, como fez ela, escutar e tentar com- preender os sons que vêm da sociedade, sem perder de vista os objetivos de justiça social e democracia.