Events DA

With
Amanda Villa (PPGAS/USP and OPI)
Fabio Nogueira Ribeiro (MAE/USP and OPI)

Moderator
Leonardo Viana Braga (PPGAS/USP)

Tanaru, or the ‘Indian from the Hole’ as he was popularly known, was the sole survivor of one of the massacres that took place in the 1980s and 1990s in Gleba Corumbiara, in the south of the state of Rondônia. Following the final massacre of his people in 1995, Tanaru lived for 26 years on an 8,000-hectare island of forest surrounded by destruction until 2022, when FUNAI officials found his body, adorned in a hammock, inside his thatched hut. During this period, Tanaru occupied 53 different sites within the Indigenous Territory. His story during the final years of his life was, therefore, one of flight, evasion and the struggle to…

INVITATION | ‘The Friday of the Month’, an event organised by students on the Postgraduate Programme in Social Anthropology at USP, invites everyone to the first themed roundtable discussion in November! ✨

Theme: “2nd Knowledge Gathering: paths in the quest for pluriversity”

For the second edition of the “Friday of the Month” Knowledge Gathering, we will be joined by experts from different backgrounds, who will share their respective experiences and knowledge. Onontochê Sandra de Xadantã will share her knowledge with the Tambor de Criola Dona Teca collective; Eliany Cristina Ortiz Funari will discuss her experience with USP’s Centre for Outreach and Culture in Afro-Brazilian Arts; and Orlindo Ramos Marques will present some of the Tukano perspective on the…