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 Brazil, especially the favelas of Rio de Janeiro. 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 Lima 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 Venezuela, 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. editor-in-chief introduction | andré botelho Modernism returns in another sociological key in the discussion of a central aspect of the Brazilian cultural tradition, the relation between original and copy, through one of its most successful cultural movements, Anthropophagy. Situating the latter in its original context, Bernardo Ricupero aims to shed light not only on the meanings of Oswald de Andrade’s Anthropophagy, but also on its wider sense, asking, in provocative fashion, to what point it was able to transcend its environ- ment and how far it can be compared to recent postcolonial formulations. In “Aldeinha: the left bank of the Aquidauana River,” Messias Basques pre- sents another history of the presence of the Terena in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul who, in 1933, founded a community known as Aldeinha. The official history of the municipality silences the existence of indigenous peoples in the region, and similarly ignores the fundamental contribution made by the Terena as workers on the farms, in domestic and commercial activities, and in the local public authorities. “Africa... but not much!” by Andréa Lobo, discusses tourism and Africanity in Cape Verde, especially through the relations between Cape Verdeans and European tourists who increasingly travel to the archipelago in search of African experiences in a calm, paradisiacal, exotic and tropical environment. In “Critique-form, forms of critique,” Alexandre Werneck and Pricila Loretti analyse the role played by the various formal dimensions of a critique in its realiza- tion. On one hand, they explore the mutual critiques between residents of a Rio favela and the power supply company that began to operate more intensively in the region after the implantation of a Police Pacification Unit (UPP). On the other hand, they analyse how critique is mobilized in a humorous form, both modulated, that is, constantly adapted to avoid the formation of critical moments, and accusa- tory, observed especially in posters from the 2013 and 2014 demonstrations that used humour to comment ironically on the country’s political situation. Completing the articles in this issue, we have “Raging against the Enlighten- ment: the ideology of Steven Bannon,” in which Jeffrey Alexander, making use of categories of cultural sociology formulated in his earlier work, analyses how Bannon, considered the principal ideologist of the Donald Trump government, has construct- ed powerful narratives through binary simplifications of political conflict, purifying the groups that supposedly embody the ‘real America’ – nationalists, whites and ago., 2018 ago., Christians – and legitimizing the exclusion of all others. Powerfully amplified in Trump’s political performances, the ideology codified by Bannon has proved capable of producing perverse effects in the contemporary democratic order. Aside from the 726, set.– 726, – interest in terms of thinking about the current political context in Brazil, Jeffrey Al- exander’s article also functions as an introduction of sorts to his thought, given that readers of Sociologia & Antropologia will find in our next issue (1/9 of 2019) a set of original texts on cultural sociology, undoubtedly one of the most influential strands of US sociology today. Closing this issue are three reviews. “The practice of theory” by João Paulo Bachur on the book Teoria dos sistemas na prática, v. I (Estrutura social e semântica), by Niklas Luhmann, recently published by Editora Vozes. The review by Lidiane Soares Rodrigues of Sonhos da periferia. Inteligência argentina e mecenato privado, by Sergio Miceli. And finally the review by Lívia Boeschenstein and José Carlos Rodrigues of O paraíso do consumo: Émile Zola, a magia e os grandes magazines, by Everardo Rocha, Ma- rina Frid and William Corbo. We hope everyone enjoys the read. sociol. antropol. | rio de janeiro, v.08.03: 725 | rio de janeiro, antropol. sociol. 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.