Grappling With Complexity in Research with the Military Police The Far-Right and Anthropology’s Civilizing Mission

Abstract: This text examines the challenges of carrying out fieldwork with the Military Police, an institution responsible for systematically targeting Rio de Janeiro’s favela populations with extreme levels of racialized state violence. It discusses how anthropologists can describe police officers...

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Main Author: Tomás Salem
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Associação Brasileira de Antropologia 2025-01-01
Series:Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412024000101008&lng=en&tlng=en
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