Authorship: Vanessa Munhoz • LISA Communication
Art/Dissemination: Carlos Eduardo Conceição • LISA Scientific Dissemination Scholarship
Published: 09/23/2025
On October 3, 2025, at 4 p.m., the Métis Convida edition will feature François Michel Le Tourneau, the director of the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS USP). He will discuss his research on gold mining, which simultaneously destroys the forest environment and creates economic wealth. Drawing from field data on the inner workings of the gold mining industry and numerous interviews with miners, the speaker will explore the attitudes of these individuals regarding these two aspects, highlighting the nonlinearity of their relationship with time, their ambiguous perception of the forest, and the unique wealth/income creation model.
Suggested readings:
- Brazilian Illegal Gold Miners' Resilience in French Guiana: The Garimpo as an Economic and Social System
- Le "système garimpeiro" et la Guyane: l'orpaillage clandestin contemporain en Amazonie française.
This event is organized within the scope of the thematic project Métis — Arts and Semantics of Creation and Memory, which is funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP). The event aims to bring together different subfields of anthropology based on the notion of creation, understood in a broad sense.
- Address: auditorium of the Laboratory of Image and Sound in Anthropology (LISA-USP) at Rua do Anfiteatro 181, sala 10, Cidade Universitária, São Paulo, Brazil.
- Free admission, subject to space limitations.
- No subscription required