Rainer Miranda Brito

Faculty memberof the Anthropology Collegiate at the Federal University of Vale do São Francisco (Universidade Federal do Vale do São Francisco - UNIVASF), São Raimundo Nonato campus. Ph.D. (2019) and M.A. (2015) in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), B.A. (2009) in Social Sciences from the same institution. His topics of interest and work include: Classical and folk arts in modernity, Applied Ethnomusicology, Technology, media and open source, Theory and history of Social Sciences. Develops artistic-musical activities involving modal musical systems, the Brazilian ten-string viola and the Istanbul lute (lavta). As an outreach researcher, he has developed actions for recording, dissemination and processing of audiovisual media of folk arts from Piauí's semi-arid region using accessible and replicable technologies. Founder of the Experimental Cycle of Folk Arts (Ciclo Experimental de Artes Populares - CICLOPES) and member of the Workshop and Archive of Anthropology, Image and Sound (Oficina e Arquivo de Antropologia, Imagem e Som - OAAIS) (Source: Lattes Curriculum)