Elements that incorporate lives, reaffirm social places, connect, and belong: the agency of non-human elements in a student context

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22409/antropolitica.i.a55506

Keywords:

Agency, Elements, Objects, Fraternities.

Abstract

This article deals with the agency of non-humans (material and/or organic elements) in a student context, popularly known as the fraternities of Ouro Preto, Minas Gerais. For this discussion, I mobilize a harvest of sources: my access to these spaces for seven years, interviews with residents of these houses, description of experiences in which I participated, images, observations on social networks and student interactions in cyberspaces. These data allowed us to sew the analysis according to which objects have embodied lives, produce a social place, guarantee the maintenance of hierarchies, constitute micropolitical relationships, as well as belong and connect people in terms of family/affinity – within the fraternities life in the Minas Gerais city of Ouro Preto.

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Author Biography

Yuri Alexandre Estevão-Rezende, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais

Doutorando e Mestre em Antropologia Social do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais.

Published

2023-09-06

How to Cite

Estevão-Rezende, Y. A. (2023). Elements that incorporate lives, reaffirm social places, connect, and belong: the agency of non-human elements in a student context. Antropolítica - Revista Contemporânea De Antropologia. https://doi.org/10.22409/antropolitica.i.a55506