Papers by Paride Bollettin
Ethnobiology Letters, 2023
Research Communications Special Issue on Diverse Conservations knowledge-practices shape activiti... more Research Communications Special Issue on Diverse Conservations knowledge-practices shape activities of the actionresearch project, "Intercultural Education as a Dialogue between Ways of Knowing and Forms of Knowledge: Multistrategic and Collaborative Research in Traditional Communities" (hereinafter, "the Project"). The plurality of social, epistemological, ontological, and axiological dimensions in inter-and transdisciplinary dialogues raises complex questions (Ludwig 2016; Weiskopf 2020; Ludwig and El-Hani 2020). In anthropology, conservation biology, and education, for instance, the question of how to dialogically engage diverse epistemologies and ontologies has been the subject of recent debates (Bartlett et al. 2012; Holbraad et al. 2014; Kimmerer 2013). Despite being recognized as crucially important for engaging complex social-environmental dynamics,
Ecology and Society, 2023
Sustainable fishing is one of the most pressing challenges for mankind and requires insightful kn... more Sustainable fishing is one of the most pressing challenges for mankind and requires insightful knowledge of the drivers that may foster or hinder predatory exploitation. It has been widely recognized that Indigenous and local knowledge can contribute to biodiversity conservation and sustainable use of resources, such as fisheries, worldwide. Nevertheless such knowledge continues to be marginalized and unacknowledged by a range of academic scientists and policy makers. In the present paper, we tackle this issue by discussing laws regarding closed fishing seasons, which are part of the Brazilian environmental policies for protecting marine fauna, from the perspective of artisanal fishers' knowledge. In Brazil, these laws are typically based on governmental decisions (i.e., by administrative organizations and researchers acting as consultants) without taking fishers' knowledge into account. Through semistructured interviews with traditional experts of fishing villages situated along the northeast coast of Brazil, we aimed to investigate their knowledge of fish reproductive periods and analyze how it is related to the closed seasons at work in their region. We found an exact agreement between fishers' knowledge and closed season regulations on the reproductive period of the mangrove crab (Ucides cordatus), but a conflict regarding the reproductive period of two snook species and four species of shrimps. We highlight the potential of fishers' knowledge contributions to environmental regulations and we also explore three challenges of incorporating epistemic diversity in environmental policy. We conclude by advocating for a reflexive transdisciplinarity that highlights the potential of Indigenous and local knowledge while critically reflecting on the methodological and political challenges of transdisciplinary practices.
GIS - Gesto, Imagem E Som - Revista De Antropologia, 2023
This photo essay is dedicated to presenting some possible encounters with a multispecies network ... more This photo essay is dedicated to presenting some possible encounters with a multispecies network in the city of Brno, in the Czech Republic. Circulating around the city, several animals appear in buildings, streets and squares, enabling a hybrid experience with these other-than-humans sharing urban space. Reflections on the multispecies character of urban spaces make it possible to highlight the collective and hybrid dimension of sensory curiosity promoted by encounters with others-than-humans. Mythical, exotic and domestic animals are present in various places in Brno, some connecting with the city's history, others with its social and public dimensions. The proposal is that the representation of such multispecies encounters allows an eclectic city to emerge and be experienced.
Ethnobiology and Conservation, 2023
No Brasil, o estabelecimento da política de defeso não tem levado em conta os conhecimentos de pe... more No Brasil, o estabelecimento da política de defeso não tem levado em conta os conhecimentos de pescadores artesanais, que são, comumente, marginalizados e não reconhecidos perante às políticas públicas que os atingem. Em nossos estudos, encontramos uma marcada incompatibilidade entre o conhecimento de pescadores artesanais do estuário do rio Itapicuru, litoral norte da Bahia, sobre o período reprodutivo de algumas espécies marinhas
Visual Ethnography, 2022
This photo essay aims to describe the process of reappropriation of a part of the Trincheira-Baca... more This photo essay aims to describe the process of reappropriation of a part of the Trincheira-Bacajá Indigenous Land by the Mebengokré in September 2021, after almost three years of its invasion by not-indigenous people. The images were taken by Bepkyi Xikrin when the Mebengokré have been able to return to the area after the partial removal of the invaders. The perceptions and sensations of the invasion's impacts on the environment, as well as the participation of the people in this collective recuperation highlight the social dimension of the environment as well as the resistance of the Mebengokré resistance and their struggle for their lives, lands and rights.
MUSEOLOGICA BRUNENSIA, 2022
This paper presents some challenges for the reorganization of the ethnographic collection hosted ... more This paper presents some challenges for the reorganization of the ethnographic collection hosted at the Centro Studi Americanistici “Circolo Amerindiano” in Perugia, Italy. Since the collection will move to a new site, the possibility to reformulate curatorship and exhibitory narratives arises. Current claims for more inclusive, decolonized, dialogical and participative experiences of museums and exhibitions highlight the importance for contributions from the people that produced and live with the artefacts, images, and other elements constituting the collections. The aim of this paper is to describe some of the difficulties and possible solutions for making such participation effective in a European collection dedicated to Amerindian peoples.
Anthropologia integra, 2022
There are a growing number of counter-hegemonic Brazilian scientific productions. The gradual pro... more There are a growing number of counter-hegemonic Brazilian scientific productions. The gradual process of decolonization of Brazilian universities, a result of the struggle of social movements, has opened space for researchers to present alternatives for scientific production. In this paper we will work with the hypothesis that there is a significant number of Brazilian academic works that seek to detach themselves from hegemonic theories based on new alternatives of epistemologies, ontologies, and value systems. To support it, we point to ten works that use emerging epistemologies, ontologies, and value systems to formulate conceptions and theories about socially marginalized groups.
Animal Life and Human Culture Anthrozoology Studies, 2022
This work describes how the recognition of a relational engagement affects the description of mul... more This work describes how the recognition of a relational engagement affects the description of multispecies human and other-than-human primate collective in two ethnographic cases. The first focuses on the Mebengokré of Brazilian Amazon and their relation with the kukoi, capuchins monkeys, as the actualization of alternative possibilities ranging from a prey-predator to a ritual relation. The second turns on primatologists studying capuchins monkeys in northeast Brazil as objectivated units in scientific reports, but also as engaged in direct and subjective relations during their fieldwork. The thesis is that, in both cases, despite the divergent taxonomic recognition, the core basis of the effective and affective relation is the reciprocal influence in the common becoming of human and other- than-human primates. The consequence is that such common becoming implies an ethnographic effort able to cross specie-specific frontiers in order to move beyond the anthropocentric description and include other-than-humans as proper subjects.
Prelúdios, v. 10, n. 11, p. 137-160, 2021
The paper aims at discussing the ethnographic practice, understood as both as being in and narrat... more The paper aims at discussing the ethnographic practice, understood as both as being in and narrating the field, having as a core focus the emergence and suggestions offered by the multispecies ethnography. Starting with a view of the historical development of ethnography as a specific modality of having experience of the World(s), the rise of multispecies ethnography in the context of post-human debates is described. In sequence a case of ethnographic production focused on not-human subjects will be described in order to highlight some elements at the core of these proposals. Finally, the paper discusses the possibilities of expanding the ethnography toward the inclusion of not-human beings, stressing epistemic, ontological and moral aspects. The proposal of the paper is that multispecies ethnography offers specific possibilities of expanding the ethnography from the notions of knowledge hybridization and ethnographic curiosity.
Mediações científicas potenciais: museus e coleções da Universidade Federal da Bahia/Brasil e da Universidade de Toulouse/Paul Sabatier/França = Médiations scientifiques potentielles: musées et collections L'Université Féderalé de Bahia/Brésil et L'Université de Toulouse/Paul Sabatier/France, 2022
Os autores Marco Tromboni, Paride Bollettin e Sidélia Teixeira, discutem sobre o processo de comu... more Os autores Marco Tromboni, Paride Bollettin e Sidélia Teixeira, discutem sobre o processo de comunicação nos museus, tendo por base uma experiência desenvolvida nessa instituição com os índios Kamayurá sobre os objetos da sua cultura, presentes na expo- sição de longa duração e na reserva técnica do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia da UFBA.
Anthropologia Integra, 2022
Th is study analyzed theses and master's dissertations of indigenous women in public universities... more Th is study analyzed theses and master's dissertations of indigenous women in public universities of Brazil. Th e history of the colonization in Brazil left traces of a power dynamic that devalued indigenous culture. With this, the monopolization of knowledge and communication was established by people who reinforce the Eurocentric production of knowledge. We outlined a study that crossed the lines of indigenous women's productions with the discussions already produced by researchers of the decoloniality in human sciences. We faced the silencing processes that these women went through during their studies. We identifi ed the diffi culties of dissemination of these important works and the impacts generated by the new dynamics of those who were once objects of study and slowly occupy their spaces in a claim for their standpoint. Th erefore, we highlighted the need for direct action by universities to encourage and better disseminate the counter-hegemonic productions of indigenous women. KLÍČOVÁ SLOVA domorodé ženy; dekolonialita; humanitní vědy; kolonizace; disertační práce ABSTRAKT Tato studie analyzuje diplomové a magisterské práce domorodých žen na veřejných univerzitách v Brazílii. Historie kolonizace v Brazílii zanechala stopy mocenské dynamiky, která znehodnotila domorodou kulturu. Díky tomu byla zavedena monopolizace znalostí a komunikace lidmi, kteří posilují eurocentrickou produkci znalostí. Tato studie kombinuje výsledky produkce domorodých žen s diskusemi, které již vytvořili výzkumníci dekoloniality v humanitních vědách. Zaznamenali jsme procesy umlčování, jimiž tyto ženy prošly během svého studia. Identifikovali jsme obtíže při šíření těchto důležitých prací a dopady vyvolané novou dynamikou těch, kteří byli kdysi objekty studia a pomalu zabírají jejich prostor v nároku na své stanovisko. Proto jsme zdůraznili potřebu přímých akcí ze strany univerzit, které by podporovaly a lépe šířily kontrahegemonickou produkci domorodých žen. KEY WORDS Indigenous women; decoloniality; human sciences; colonisation; dissertations Since the Portuguese colonization, the Brazilian indigenous communities have experienced intense processes of violence. Th ey were removed from their lands and enslaved, while their exploitation culminated in resistance and struggle for rights (Faustino-Novak-Rodrigues 2020). Th is resistance, based on a claim for the preservation of their cultures and communities, is growing and gaining new spaces in the contemporary panorama. With the promulgation of the actual Brazilian
Human Ecology, 2022
Based on a mixed-methods study involving triad tasks and ethnobiological models, we analyze local... more Based on a mixed-methods study involving triad tasks and ethnobiological models, we analyze local categories and knowledge of key ethnospecies of fish exploring partial overlaps between artisanal fishers' and academic knowledge in a fishing community in northeast Brazil. We argue that fishers' and academic knowledge overlaps may provide common ground for transdisciplinary collaboration, while their partiality requires reflection on epistemological and ontological differences. Here, we show how knowledge of artisanal fishers can complement academic knowledge and bring about tensions that need to be addressed through intercultural dialogue. By integrating a general philosophical framework of partial overlaps with a mixed-methods study on fishers' knowledge, we show how ethnobiology can contribute to reflective and empiricallygrounded transdisciplinary practices.
Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine, 2022
Background: Traditional fishing communities are strongholds of ethnobiological knowledge but esta... more Background: Traditional fishing communities are strongholds of ethnobiological knowledge but establishing to what degree they harbor cultural consensus about different aspects of this knowledge has been a challenge in many ethnobiological studies. Methods: We conducted an ethnobiological study in an artisanal fishing community in northeast Brazil, where we interviewed 91 community members (49 men and 42 women) with different type of activities (fishers and nonfishers), in order to obtain free lists and salience indices of the fish they know. To establish whether there is cultural consensus in their traditional knowledge on fish, we engaged a smaller subset of 45 participants in triad tasks where they chose the most different fish out of 30 triads. We used the similarity matrices generated from the task results to detect if there is cultural consensus in the way fish were classified by them. Results: The findings show how large is the community's knowledge of fish, with 197 ethnospecies registered, of which 33 species were detected as salient or important to the community. In general, men cited more fish than women. We also found that there was no cultural consensus in the ways fish were classified. Conclusions: Both free-listing and triad task methods revealed little cultural consensus in the way knowledge is structured and how fish were classified by community members. Our results suggest that it is prudent not to make assumptions that a given local community has a single cultural consensus model in classifying the organisms in their environment.
Anthropologicas Visual, 2021
Since the beginning of 2020, with the eclosion of the Covid-19 pandemic, airports have been inclu... more Since the beginning of 2020, with the eclosion of the Covid-19 pandemic, airports have been included among the main hotspots for the diffusion of the disease. Several limitations affected the possibility for people to travel, with diverse approaches between the countries, and with differences among who was authorized to travel and who was not. This caused a contraction on the number of passengers transiting in the airports in all the countries. However the commercial international aviation has never stopped, and despite the reduction of passengers the airports managed to implement health security protocols for the Covid-19 diffusion control. Before the pandemic, other challenges already affected airports’ security protocols, such as the “terrorist threat”, making of these places “nervous systems” (as defined by Maguire and Pétercsak). After one year and half from the beginning of the pandemic, with the vaccination campaigns accelerating in various countries (with the clear differences due to governments’ political choices and countries’ access to vaccines) the air travels have returned to a condition similar to previous one. An increasing number of planes flying and an increasing number of passengers can be registered everywhere. Meanwhile, the sanitary attention to the Covid-19 diffusion contention continues to be a concern in the space organization of airports.
This ethnographic photoessay aims at describing the visual presence of the Covid in the airports. The work focuses on four airports in three countries the author passed through in June 2021. They are the airports of Salvador, Bahia (Brazil), Lisbon (Portugal), Rome and Venice (Italy). Despite the differences between the countries in the approached adopted to contain the diffusion of the pandemic, airports are subjected to standardized international protocols. These are intended to (re)produce similar safety measures in the diverse airports. Meanwhile, airports are designed not to be identitarian, historical and relational, but yes to be experienced as “non places” (as Augé defined these places). However, each airport introduces several dimensions of its specific location, of its specific local health politics, of its specific passengers’ flow, and so on, making of them a peculiar place to observe the space design for Covid diffusion control. Despite the definition of the Covid as an “invisible enemy”, used in general media in diverse countries, the thesis is that the presence of the virus is highly visible to everyone passing in some airport, independently from the specific country. Meanwhile, the diverse airports introduce their own local and specific visual modalities to achieve passengers. Pictures included in this ethnographic photoessay focus on some of these modalities, such as the hand gel dispensers, instructions and prohibitions for preventing Covid dissemination, among other. Covid’s aesthetics in airports highlights how the pandemic affected people visual and sensorial experiences of these places and of their designs.
Veredas, 2021
Comics are a great form of presenting the imaginary about diverse places and people. Various stud... more Comics are a great form of presenting the imaginary about diverse places and people. Various studies already discussed them as legitimate dialogues between subjects narrating and narrated in the development of the stories. This paper focuses on an Italian comics, Mister No. Especially it describes the happenings of this subject while in the Brazilian sertão. The objective of the paper is to discuss both how this comics reflects the authors imaginary about the place and the emergence of a specific subjectivity of the main character.
Anthropologia Integra, 2021
The paper describes the emergence of multispecies ethnography as a form of multiplying experience... more The paper describes the emergence of multispecies ethnography as a form of multiplying experiences and descriptions beyond the human. Despite the definition of multispecies being quite recent, the paper argues that the interest toward the inclusion of other-than-humans in the ethnographic effort dates back at the beginning of the discipline. An example of this interest is the text The American Beaver and His Works written in 1868 by Henry Morgan, in which the author effectively includes these animals in his ethnography. The thesis of the paper is that a multispecies approach can promote a redefinition of hybridity and curiosity as two core features of the ethnographic effort.
Antropologias Ciências e Covid, 2021
Teaching and Learning Anthropology Journal, 2021
This paper describes a course on Anthropology and Museums offered at the Federal University of Ba... more This paper describes a course on Anthropology and Museums offered at the Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. The interface between anthropology and museums is of great relevance for the elaboration of an effective pedagogical strategy in teaching anthropology. The course described here included both theoretical and practical activities aimed at covering contemporary debates about anthropology, museums, and material culture as well as at offering direct first-hand experiences for students. The development and results of the course highlight the usefulness of adopting this theoretical-practical mixture for the effective engagement of students in the educational process.
América Crítica, 2019
Mythical narratives, in their Amerindian styles, fascinated anthropological reflections in differ... more Mythical narratives, in their Amerindian styles, fascinated anthropological reflections in different directions. A classical starting point, proposed by Lévi-Strauss, appoints in these narratives the recognition of the indissolubility of interspecific experiences as feature of human lives. This paper describes how the Mebengokré people of eastern Amazon produce multiple relations with the turtles. Having as a starting point a mythical narrative, in sequence it will introduce hunting techniques used to hunt turtles, a specific music learned from the turtles, and the ritualistic practices associated with these. The description of these relations' role in the reciprocal production of humans and animals, both at practical and semiotic levels, will highlight how a complex web of interspecific influences emerges. Such description will be, in sequence, contextualized in the contemporary debates about human and non-human relations in the production of shared Worlds. Finally, the paper will discuss specific forms in which diverse subjectivities build up a common becoming. This becoming appears as a resonance between shared Worlds, as dissolution of interspecific borders and epistemological dichotomies. In this way, the described Amerindian myth will emerge as a reflection on interspecific relations.
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This ethnographic photoessay aims at describing the visual presence of the Covid in the airports. The work focuses on four airports in three countries the author passed through in June 2021. They are the airports of Salvador, Bahia (Brazil), Lisbon (Portugal), Rome and Venice (Italy). Despite the differences between the countries in the approached adopted to contain the diffusion of the pandemic, airports are subjected to standardized international protocols. These are intended to (re)produce similar safety measures in the diverse airports. Meanwhile, airports are designed not to be identitarian, historical and relational, but yes to be experienced as “non places” (as Augé defined these places). However, each airport introduces several dimensions of its specific location, of its specific local health politics, of its specific passengers’ flow, and so on, making of them a peculiar place to observe the space design for Covid diffusion control. Despite the definition of the Covid as an “invisible enemy”, used in general media in diverse countries, the thesis is that the presence of the virus is highly visible to everyone passing in some airport, independently from the specific country. Meanwhile, the diverse airports introduce their own local and specific visual modalities to achieve passengers. Pictures included in this ethnographic photoessay focus on some of these modalities, such as the hand gel dispensers, instructions and prohibitions for preventing Covid dissemination, among other. Covid’s aesthetics in airports highlights how the pandemic affected people visual and sensorial experiences of these places and of their designs.
This ethnographic photoessay aims at describing the visual presence of the Covid in the airports. The work focuses on four airports in three countries the author passed through in June 2021. They are the airports of Salvador, Bahia (Brazil), Lisbon (Portugal), Rome and Venice (Italy). Despite the differences between the countries in the approached adopted to contain the diffusion of the pandemic, airports are subjected to standardized international protocols. These are intended to (re)produce similar safety measures in the diverse airports. Meanwhile, airports are designed not to be identitarian, historical and relational, but yes to be experienced as “non places” (as Augé defined these places). However, each airport introduces several dimensions of its specific location, of its specific local health politics, of its specific passengers’ flow, and so on, making of them a peculiar place to observe the space design for Covid diffusion control. Despite the definition of the Covid as an “invisible enemy”, used in general media in diverse countries, the thesis is that the presence of the virus is highly visible to everyone passing in some airport, independently from the specific country. Meanwhile, the diverse airports introduce their own local and specific visual modalities to achieve passengers. Pictures included in this ethnographic photoessay focus on some of these modalities, such as the hand gel dispensers, instructions and prohibitions for preventing Covid dissemination, among other. Covid’s aesthetics in airports highlights how the pandemic affected people visual and sensorial experiences of these places and of their designs.
Joana Cabral (Universidade de São Paulo)
Antonella Faggetti (Benemerita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla)
Vânia Fialho (Universidade de Pernambuco)
Donatella Schmidt (Università degli Studi di Padova)
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Sergio Botta (Sapienza Università di Roma)
Edmundo Peggion (Universidade Estadual Paulista)
Paride Bollettin (Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará)
Venerdì 15 maggio 2015, ore 15
Aula A della sezione storico-religiosa del
Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Religioni
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