This paper explores the use of the image as a methodological instrument in qualitative research in health. It is divided into two parts. The first part, which is theoretical in perspective, deals with aspects of anthropological fieldwork in which different views interact in the interpretation, either in the speech of the social actor or in the image that is produced.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis research has a starting point the promising articulation between recyclable waste materials pickers and visual artists. Their intersection point is the way they reshape the remnants of the consumption society: waste pickers give new uses to objects bringing dignity to cast out materials, while visual artists reshape these subjectively refused objects into art, giving them new social value. This study tries to locate the continuity gap we created in regard to waste materials processing - what may they tell about us? Where do they stand at our social scale of values? Thus it becomes clear how waste objects aren't just technical realities but renewed values.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis article describes how Man, over history, felt about the residues produced by human activity. The text is divided into three parts: In the first part it tells the story of the black plague pandemic during the XIV century, showing how this disease was associated with the residues produced by the human body. In the second part it explains how the first notions of waste were, and still are, related to dirt, disease and death.
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October 1997
This study describes the work performed by garbage collectors in the Rio de Janeiro City Street Cleaning Company (COMLURB) (Rio Comprido division) and its consequences for their health. Data were collected through interviews and on-site video documentation. A detailed description of the work process was performed.
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