Objects: Social Trajectory, Politics and Meanings

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https://doi.org/10.5380/cam.v8i2.10386

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Antropologia Social, coisas e pessoas, politica e moralidade, maçonaria contemporânea

Abstract

While researching about contemporary freemasonry I discovered the importance of certain pieces of clothes, furniture, building patterns, blazons, embroideries, paintings, sculptures, drawings and letters; all these composing the field of acknowledgment of the freemasonry. These objects, reproduced and translated in distinct places – in the building of the temples, in ceremonies and rituals, in images of books, in sites of Internet and in masonic museums – make moral values and historicity circulate. Also through these objects feelings of belonging and sociality networks are woven. In this paper I would like to discuss the reproducibility and the meanings of such objects in actions and polítical recruitments.

Author Biography

Suely Kofes, DA, IFCH, Unicamp

Antropologa, Professora titular de Antropologia, DA, IFCH, Unicamp

Teoria Antropologica, Diferença e Identidade, Narrativas biográficas e etnográficas,

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Kofes, S. (2007). Objects: Social Trajectory, Politics and Meanings. Campos - Revista De Antropologia, 8(2), 27–40. https://doi.org/10.5380/cam.v8i2.10386

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Vol. 8 (2007)

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