School of Social and Political Science

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How did the breakdown of hierarchical, violent, and depersonalized relations under slavery entail new interactions made of shared experiences—in which humans, plants, animals, stones, spirits, and gods acted as those who domesticated and were domesticated—creating socialites that encompassed the living, the dead, and other than humans and non-humans? 

Speaker: Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha, National Museum, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro