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Resumo Trata-se de uma revisão dos principais focos de influência do pensamento de Louis Dumont nas ciências sociais contemporâneas, mostrando as diversas correntes analíticas em que sua contribuição tem sido frutífera, com ênfase em diferentes aspectos de suas teorias e interesses etnográficos. Os estudos do parentesco e da religião, a interpretação da configuração cultural indiana, a teoria da "hierarquia" e o "holismo metodológico", a história e a sociologia da "ideologia do individualismo", o estatuto da noção de "totalidade", a dinâmica da mudança cultural, a dimensão ética da noção de "valor" e a antropologia da cultura ocidental são os principais domínios da influência atual evocados.

Abstract The interview, conducted via an exchange of e-mails, explores Joel Robbins' contributions to the reappraisal and resurgence of Louis Dumont's work in contemporary anthropology. Starting from the central concept of "value", the concept of relationism proposed by Robbins is explored as the counterpart of Dumont's holism versus individualism dualism, as well as the unfolding of these notions in an anthropology of Christianity exemplified by Robbins' research in Melanesia.

One of the main features of Burle Marx's biography is the idea that he discovered the aesthetic qualities of tropical flora that came to characterize his famous new approach to landscape design during a juvenile visit to Berlin-Dahlem Botanical Gardens, in the 1920s. Having been born [1909] in São Paulo, he is supposed not to have had previous contact with tropical spontaneous richness, thanks to the Europeanized taste that prevailed there. As any young member of the local elites with a disposition towards an artistic career, his family trip to Europe was an essential condition for close contact with the avant-garde tendencies of early 20th century. Ever since the 19th century, that pattern of contact of Brazilian prospective artists with 'civilization' had entailed the emergence of different trends of 'nativist' renderings of metropolitan taste. In such a context, the peculiar aspect of RBM's European début was the 'discovery' of tropical nature and not only that of the formal, 'universal' language of high culture. The discussion of what is involved in this game of mirrors is the aim of this paper.

Le Musée National [Museu Nacional] brésilien a
fêté son second centenaire en 2018, l'année où la plus grande partie
de son siège et de ses collections a été détruite par un incendie. La
date précédait de quatre années la commémoration du second centenaire
de l'indépendance du pays. Le musée aurait dû accompagner – en
première ligne – la réflexion et les fêtes suscitées pour l'occasion.
Dans le contexte de la restauration du palais de São Cristóvão et de
la reconstitution générale de l'institution, un intense travail de
révision de la signification de son traditionnel caractère
« national » et de sa responsabilité en tant que plus ancien musée du
pays s'est imposé. Il a permis une prise de conscience des changements
du contexte social et culturel national, notamment pour un musée
d'histoire naturelle et d'anthropologie. Les débats en cours sur les
nouvelles installations, les collections et les futures expositions
constituent un moment stratégique de cette révision apportant des
contributions durables pour le service de l'institution à la
nation.

Abstract This article consists of a theoretical review of the conjunction between lived experience of family belonging and religious encompassment in modern societies, resorting to data resulting from a comparative study of personhood, family and religion in urban Brazil, concentrated in a network of upper social strata and in a medical context of palliative care. In both contexts people move in what may be called a "transpersonal ether", a complex enmeshing of personhood in kinship and religious experiences that far exceeds the limits of the rational, autonomous, units privileged by hegemonic scientific knowledge and individualistic ideology. Our interest is to contribute to the understanding of the processes and characteristics of the "extended self" in general modern conditions and to explore the circumstances in which these dimensions tend to become more explicit, as phenomenological limits and counterparts to the individualization and disenchantment that has characterized Western modernity.