Anthropology and law: dialogue for otherness

To become self-reflexive, Jurisprudence must to establish a dialogue: the human sciences should lose their exotic character in the eyes of Legal Science. It is in the middle between the "order" and the thinking about it, where the "naked experience" happens, that culture and therefore Law builds itself e it is constructed. This paper demonstrates the need to use other human sciences, with emphasis on anthropology, as "methodological strategies" for Jurisprudence self-reflection to become more faithful to the reality of the researched object. Anthropology has the power to show what is "anti-modern". It questions the intellectual space of modernity where the hard definition of antagonisms detached from reality occurs - West/East, “I”/other, civilized/barbarian. Jurisprudence consolidates antagonisms: the diversity and plurality of human societies are rarely seen as a fact but as an aberration, always demanding a justification. It is necessary to create a methodology using what is most extraordinary and human in the analysis of fact: "Anthopological Blues". Anthropology is capable of breaking with the classical conception of scientific methodology that is based on stiffness to produce absolute truths and also support the fulfillment of legal concepts with content and meaning, providing a reinterpretation of science as a human instrument of intervention on reality

Assessing the Impact of Strategic Global Entry from Cultural Research Perspective in Marketing: A Case of Oil and Gas Industry in Romania

Breaking into a new market is a classic path to business growth. Ability to understand consumption experience of consumers is a major concern of today’s marketers, most especially in view of the rise of experiential marketing approaches that seek to re-enchant people through consumption (Schmitt, 1999, 2003). Service businesses, in particular, are being urged to have a global view on what types of experiences to organize for consumers and how they should be provided. One of the entry strategy of a successful global organization is to research the market they are about to enter and most marketers are now turning to ethnographers. Ethnography has therefore, devised a compilation of retrospective and introspective consumer narratives called “big stories” in contrast to “small stories” Therefore, ethnography of consumption has evolved towards a double method featuring, on one hand, observations that generate “small stories” and, on the other, introspection that generates “big stories”. Ethnography of consumption has been strengthened by the shift from a researcher-devised retrospective narrative in an interview form to an introspective narrative that is produced, fine-tuned and diffused by the consumer in the shape of a text diary, audio diary or video diary (Caru and Cova, 2008). This non-empirical article is to detail the major roles of ethnographers when a company wants to enter an international market. Romania is the largest oil producer in Central and Eastern Europe with reserves of 956 million barrels. According to the 2008 BP Statistical Energy Survey, Romania produced an average of 105.4 thousand barrels of crude oil per day in 2007, 0.12% of the world total and a change of 0.9 % compared to 2006. The country is a net oil importer, and according to the 2008 BP Statistical Energy Survey, Romania consumed an average of 229.29 thousand barrels a day of oil in 2007, 0.27% of the world total and a change from 2006 of 10.44 tbpd. This non-empirical article is to look into the entry strategies of oil multinationals wishing to do business in Romani

O currículo à luz da etnografia

O artigo começa por ressaltar o contributo da etnografia na área do currículo, numa altura de passagem de uma perspectiva técnica e prática, centrada nas metodologias de ensino(o como ensinar?), para uma perspectiva mais crítica que questiona o conhecimento monolítico veiculado pela escola (o quê ensinar?). Aponta também para a relação estreita entre a profissionalidade docente e a autonomia do professor nos desenhos curriculares que terá de ter como suporte uma investigação etnográfica que lhe dê acesso às diversas mundividências culturais dos seus alunos. É neste sentido que a etnografia da educação é importante para a formação dos professores

The Natural Fuels of Nebraska

Considerações Finais No desafio que constituiu procurar perceber o que existe no meio do que se constrói na relação que etnógrafo e etnografado estabelecem mutuamente, procurei identificar a matéria volátil que de que é feita a relação entre ambas as entidades e de que forma estas se assumem enquanto sujeito e objecto de um mesmo processo conducente à produção de uma etnografia, uma obra escrita, também denominada tese ou dissertação. A tese é o resultado físico da Etnografia produzida no ter..

As imagens e a potência dos encontros

O livro A experiência da imagem na etnografia, resultado de pesquisas realizadas pelo GRAVI – Grupo de Antropologia Visual /USP, aborda, a partir de artigos e filmes, os mais diversos usos da imagem dentro de uma perspectiva antropológica, procurando novas linguagens e possibilidades visuais para a etnografia.The book A experiência da imagem na etnografia (The experience of image in ethnography), result of research conducted by GRAVI - Group of Visual Anthropology / USP, approaches, from articles and films, the most diverse uses of the image within an anthropological perspective, looking for new languages and visual possibilities for ethnography

Etnografia e epigrafia em diálogo

A propósito de um artigo publicado no anterior número da revista, sobre «pedras de escorregar», aproveita-se o ensejo para esclarecer a tipologia dos altares votivos romanos epigrafados assim como o culto à divindade indígena Laepus.À propos d’un article publié sur le précédent volume de cette revue, l’auteur explique la fonction et la typologie des autels votifs romains et il fait le point de la recherche sur la divinité indigène Laepus

The Bay Scallop, Argopecten irradians amplicostatus, in Northeastern Mexico

The bay scallop, Argopecten irradians amplicostatus, has been present in the coastal lagoons of northeastern Mexico from Laguna Madre, Tamaulipas, to Tuxpan, Veracruz. But now, usually scarce in all lagoons, the scallop is harvested sporadically by fishermen who wade and collect them by hand and with tongs. Some are eaten by the fishermen and some are sold. They bring the fishermen about 60 pesos (5.88US$)/kg. Only the adductor muscles are eaten; they are prepared in cocktails and in ceviche. Little evidence exists that this scallop species was used in the early Mexican cultures