A questão do poder na perspectiva da antropologia da política

Abstract

This article reapproaches classical and contemporary authors in the field to discuss the question of power in a political anthropology perspective. The study emphasizes theoretical assumptions concerning scholarly debates about a set of ethnographies of political events in Brazil, like those that analyze rites, representations and violence, that are produced as a collective effort to analyze occurrences in which people, places, events and social entities are politically classified under an anthropological perspective. The objective is to make prominent some conceptual frameworks that would offer insights into future ethnographic studies in this field, emphasizing the use of the concept of power in sociocultural theory.