Editorial

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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2020.173769

Abstract

Editorial of the 5th Volume of GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal.

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  • John Cowart Dawsey, Universidade de São Paulo

    John C. Dawsey, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sao Paulo (USP), since 1991. Full Professor, 2007. Associate Professor, 1999. Ph.D. in Anthropology, 1989, and Master's in Theology, 1977, from Emory University. Bachelor of Arts in History, 1973, from Florida Southern. Visiting Scholar at New York University (NYU), 2019. Founding director of Napedra (Anthropology, Performance and Drama Research Center) since 2001. Faculty liaison of the Afro-Brazilian Arts Center at USP (directed by Luiz Antonio Nascimento Cardoso, Mestre Penguin) since 2007. Coordinated the 1st International Meeting of Anthropology and Performance (EIAP), 2011, and the 1st National Meeting of Anthropology and Performance (ENAP), 2010, at USP. Coordinated a Thematic Project of Fapesp, with 35 researchers. Organized and coordinated national meetings of Napedra in Performance: Creations 1-10, from 2014 to 2019. Published 13 books and collections, and 53 articles in scientific journals. Between theater and anthropology, explores refigurations of anthropology made possible by the works of Walter Benjamin and leading thinkers of theater and performance (Artaud, Brecht, Schechner and others). A set of concepts results from these studies: tension-thick description (descrição tensa), f(r)iction (with r between parentheses), seismology of performance, everyday astoundment (espantoso cotidiano), margins of margins, Benjaminian mimetic circuit, subterranean regions of symbols, entrails of dreams, stories of oblivion, sound unconscious, bodily index, corpoiesis, tension-thick montage, and dislocations of the sensed or lived place of things. Research interests include anthropology of performance, anthropology of experience, and Benjaminian anthropology.

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2020-08-24

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Editorial

How to Cite

Barbosa, Andrea, Edgar Teodoro da Cunha, Érica Giesbrecht, Francirosy Campos Barbosa, John Cowart Dawsey, Paula Morgado Dias Lopes, Rose Satiko Gitirana Hijiki, Sylvia Caiuby Novaes, and Vitor Grunvald. 2020. “Editorial”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 5 (1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2020.173769.