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For the almost 40 years of its existence, ANPOCS has contributed to introducing or consolidating new thematic areas in the academic agenda of debates in the Brazilian social sciences. Commensurate with this history, at the 37th Annual meeting, hosted in guas de Lindoia, Sao Paulo, in 2013, we organized a large International Symposium, The BRICS and their social, political and cultural challenges on the national and international levels. There were six sessions of debates, gathered under the umbrella of Development and public policies, Social inclusion and social justice, and Emerging powers.

I will answer the question "What's in a copy?" by considering three sets of related issues: the importance of copies in academia; in cultural life; and in the economic world. In academia the current capability of making copies is challenging pedagogical practices and the trust of its members, plagiarism being the most immediate problem. The notion of authorship is also undergoing changes provoked by a proliferation of authors and new possibilities opened up by cyberspace. In cultural life, imitation and mimesis have long been fundamental engines of socialization. Our enhanced capacity of copying problematizes, with new intensity, the relationships between homogeneity and heterogeneity, between the genuine and the spurious. In the economic world, the digital era is threatening some of the fundamental tenets of capitalism, especially of its variant called the "knowledge society", regarding the control of intellectual property rights. The gap between normativity and social practices is widening. The many dilemmas and tensions identified in the text are understood as symptoms of two major characteristics of the current times: hyperfetishism and hyperanimism.

Raramente consideramos modos de globalização distintos dos que são implementados por agentes e agências poderosos. A maioria das discussões sobre globalização alternativa ou sobre globalização de baixo para cima enfoca a sociedade civil global, os ativistas e movimentos sociais transnacionais ou os transmigrantes. Estes são tópicos relevantes que necessitam ser mais pesquisados. Analiso outras globalizações políticas por meio da discussão do movimento anti-globalização e das iniciativas alter-globalização que são os Foros Sociais Mundiais. Mas meu interesse também é compreender o lado oculto da economia política da globalização no qual os papéis normativos e repressivos dos estados nacionais são fortemente relativizados. Aqui as articulações de redes põem juntos agentes que conectam, a despeito de intervenções estatais, níveis locais, regionais, nacionais, internacionais e transnacionais de agência. O texto está baseado em trabalhos etnográficos feitos na fronteira do Paraguai (Ciudad del Este) e Brasil (Foz do Iguaçu), um nó do sistema mundial não hegemônico através do qual fluem bilhões de dólares em mercadorias globais. Meus argumentos sobre estes circuitos comerciais globais estão baseados também em pesquisas feitas sobre a Feira do Paraguai, um mercado de bens "importados" localizado em Brasília. A globalização econômica não-hegemônica está constituída por agentes transnacionais cujo objetivo é participar de fluxos globais de riqueza e poder. _______________________________________________________________________________ ABSTRACT ; We seldom consider modes of globalization that are different from those implemented by powerful agents and agencies. The existing discussions on alternative globalization or on globalization from below focus on global civil society, transnational social movements and activists, or on transmigrants. These are relevant topics that need to be more researched. I analyze other political globalizations by considering the antiglobalization movement and the alter-globalization initiatives represented by the World Social Fora. My interest also lies on the understanding of the hidden side of the political economy of globalization, one where the normative and repressive roles of national states are heavily bypassed. Here the articulations of networks put together social agents that through specific circuits of action and exchange link, in spite of state intervention, local, regional, national, international and transnational levels of agency. My arguments are based on ethnographic work done on the border of Paraguay (Ciudad del Este) and Brazil (Foz do Iguaçu), a node of the non-hegemonic world system through which billions of dollars in global goods flow. My arguments on these global trade circuits and on economic globalization from below are also based on research done on the Paraguayan Fair, a market place of "imported" merchandises located in Brasilia.

Neste artigo, desenvolvimento é visto como um campo de poder formado por muitas redes e instituições. A noção de "consorciação" é apresentada para explicar as articulações entre os diferentes atores do campo do desenvolvimento. Além disso, desenvolvimento é tratado como uma ideologia e utopia, como um discurso atravessado por categorias culturais ocidentais e vinculado à expansão econômica capitalista. A discussão sobre os "dramas desenvolvimentistas" permite identificar dois tipos de sujeitos gerados por encontros desiguais entre atores locais e outsiders.

Public higher education has been strangled in Brazil by personnel policies, fragmentation through privatisation and competition with a growing private sector. Central to the productivist turn in Brazil is the annual 'CAPES report' which ranks departments and determines their funding. The Forum of Executive Officers of Graduate Programs in Anthropology was created, years ago, to discuss problems regarding anthropology's teaching and research. Its efficacy depends on the political skills of its members to influence interlocutors. We need to understand the sociology of change around us and the power structures of the agencies structuring our field of action to be able to propose solutions.