Atravessando autores e autoras como Malinowski, Radcliffe-Brown, Margaret Mead, Zora Neale Hurston, Max Gluckman, Hilda Kuper, Michel Leiris, Wright Mills, Jomo Kenyatta, Gilberto Velho, Laura Nader, Geertz, Rabinow, George Marcus e abordando tanto etnografias clássicas como contemporâneas e cinema documentário, este livro, do antropólogo Alex Vailati (professor da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco) é fundamental para todos aqueles que se perguntam pelo lugar do estudo das elites (e a sua...

Over the last two decades, the advent of cheap, user-friendly video technologies has contributed to a revolution in representational agency. Videos are now made by production units that are at times composed of families, churches, musical groups, community associations or other institutions. Thus, on-demand videos produced and distributed within local and atypical networks profoundly shape contemporary urban imaginaries. This book explores the intertwined relations among infrastructure, te...