Antonella Tassinari

Antonella Tassinari has been a professor of anthropology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) since 1999. She holds a doctorate from the University of São Paulo and works on anthropological theory, the anthropology of education, and Indigenous peoples. She was a visiting researcher at EREA/CNRS (2005) and at the University of Montreal (2014–2015), and she is currently conducting a research stay at the University of São Paulo.

The project

Title: Raconter l’histoire amérindienne à la frontière Brésil/Guyane : entre archives missionnaires, récits des anciens et écoles autochtones

"This research project aims to contribute to the understanding of Indigenous history at the border between Brazil and French Guiana, based on the narratives of the Karipuna and Galibi-Marworno peoples from the Uaçá River basin, as well as recordings made by Jesuit and Spiritan missionaries in the 18th and 19th centuries about this region. The project intends to analyze the unforeseen elements and possibilities for dialogue between these different sources, taking into account the growing interest of Indigenous teachers in working on their history within local schools, as well as the efforts they undertake as students at the Federal University of Amapá and researchers at the Kuahí Museum. On a collaborative level, the project seeks to gather and make available historical sources to support local projects and initiatives led by Indigenous communities. From an analytical perspective, it aims to deepen the reflection on the role of anthropology in the Indigenous dynamics of knowledge transmission and memory."

Hosting institution: Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative, Nanterre

Selective Bibliography

• TASSINARI, Antonella. Making People. Manipulating Alteriry in the Production of the Person among the Karipuna People of Northern Brazil. In In DUSSART, F. & POIRIER, S. (orgs.) Coontemporary Indigenous Cosmologies and Pragmatics. University of Alberta Press, 2021, p.87-111.
• TASSINARI, Antonella. La liberté comme principe. L’éducation des enfants chez les Galibi-Marworno du Brésil et la scolarisation. Cahiers de la Recherche sur l’Éducation et les Savoirs, v. 15, p. 101-122, 2016. https://cres.revues.org/2900
• TASSINARI, Antonella. Des saints, des animaux et des étrangers. Fêtes et rituels chez les karipuna du Curipi (Amapá, Brésil). Etudes Rurales, v. 196, p. 73-88, 2015.
• TASSINARI, Antonella ; COHN, Clarice . Opening to the Other : Schooling among the Karipuna and Mebengokré-Xikrin of Brazil. Anthropology & Education Quarterly, v. 40, p. 150-169, 2009.
• TASSINARI, Antonella. No Bom da Festa. O processo de construção cultural das famílias Karipuna do Amapá. 1. ed. São Paulo: Edusp, 2003. v. 1. 416p.