ANACONDA
Laboratory of anthropology
Movements Bodies meanings-senses-directions

Click here to learn more about the activities of the laboratory in 2015
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The ANACONDA laboratory explores contemporaneity in urban and non urbans contexts from on an anthropological perspective drawn on movement.
Inspired by indigenous Amazonian notions of the Primordial Snake, whose undulating movement created the rivers and whose dance populated the land, the laboratory has two main axes of analysis:  the anthropology of landscape and the anthropology of dance. Both are interconnected in the study of movement, including the forces and relationships driving contemporary, tangible and intangible, transformations of spaces and bodies within them.
Both axes of study focus upon temporality, its forms of consciousness and effects, as well as the ruptures and rhythms of growth, production and predations, through which grounds, forms, senses, meanings and directions are made and undone.  

ANACONDA covers a variety of sociocultural issues engaging ethnographic and theoretically with the ephemerality of beings and their surroundings. It also aims at debating theories bringing together anthropology and other areas, such as geography, architecture, politics, economics, sociology, plastic and performance arts, music, linguistics and philosophy. Special attention is paid to gender as a key vector of movement and transformation.
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​​Coordinator: Luisa Elvira Belaunde.

Researchers:
Els Lagrou (UFRJ)
Maria Acselrad (UFPE)
Beatriz Matos (UFPA)
Luzimar Pereira (UFJF)
Laura Fléty (UFRJ)
Virna Plastino 

Students: 
Anderson Lucas Pereira (UFRJ)
Anita Lino (UFRJ)
Mariana Leon (UFF)
Marcia Nobrega (UNICAMP)
Julián Moraga (UFRJ)
Luis Felipe Torres (UFRJ)
Renata Povoado (UNI-RIO)
Vitor Pimenta (UFF)
João Alipio de Oliveira Cunha (UFRJ)