Country of residence

Brazil

Brief introduction

Post-doctorate researcher, Universidade de São Paulo

Education

Doctorate in Social Anthropology, Department of Social Anthropology, Faculdade de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas, Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)

Academic profile

The main concern in my research among Calon Gypsies in Southeast Brazil is to elicit native conceptualisations about the person, the body, gender, identity and the surrounding world. These basic cosmological understandings inform Calon Gypsie’s relations with the gadje (Brazilian society), providing original and reflexive contributions to different debates in Anthropology, such as the concept and the relations with a National State, notions of time, space, informal economy and sociality.

Publications

• “Engano, sincretismo e eficácia: a leitura da sorte entre ciganas Calon em São Paulo”, Cahiers du Brésil Contemporain, EHESS, no prelo (2012) – em francês.
• “Figura e fundo no pensamento cigano contra o Estado”, dossiê Pierre Clastres, Revista de Antropologia, 2011 (no prelo).
• “Como estudar nômades com um pensamento nômade? -- Sugestões para definir um campo em antropologia” (publicado no wiki do grupo Abaeté, coordenado por Eduardo Viveiros de Castro e Marcio Goldman, Museu Nacional; http://abaete.wikia.com/wiki)

Keywords

Ethnography, cosmology (gypsy conceptualisations), shame, performance, culture dialectic, differentiation process

Contact

florferrari@gmail.com browse members list