Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Social Sciences at the Federal University of São Paulo (Unifesp). She holds a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the University of São Paulo (1994), a master's degree (1997) and a doctorate (2002) in Social Anthropology, also from the University of São Paulo, and a postdoctoral degree from the Center for Gender Studies (PAGU) at Unicamp (2004-2007). Her research is related to literary life and popular publications of the 19th century, from a perspective that seeks to explore the close relationship between literature and society. She is currently investigating the universe of 19th-century ornamental horticulture, focusing on the notions of representation, tropicality, and power in the context of post- and decolonial studies. She is the author of A encenação da imortalidade (Editora FGV, 2000), Páginas de sensação (Companhia das Letras, 2004), O livro e a leitura no Brasil (Zahar, 2006) and A linguagem sentimental das flores (Editora Unesp, 2022). (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This project intends to analyze in detail the Dictionary of Flowers, a popular publication that achieved wide readership and followers throughout the 19th Century in Brazil, by divulging a romantic code based on a specific meaning attributed to each flower. Upon offering or receiving a flower, young lovers established a secret form of communication that could be hidden from the vigilant o…
This undergraduate research project makes an overture of studying the representation of popular festivals and racial mixture in different titles of the paulistan modernist movement between 1922 and 1940. The primary objective of this interdisciplinary research is to understand how these social events have reached privileged visibility in discussions concerning national identity within lit…
The main objective of this research project is to recover and analyze a diverse set of texts and images about exotic and ornamental plants, conveyed to the general reading public, in order to reflect on the European representations around the tropical world, which, within a dialectical relationship, contributed significantly to the rooting of the notions of civilization and progress in ni…
This project intends to propose a research in the collections of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, for two months, in order to read the dozens of editions of the Language of flowers, a literary genre that was born in nineteenth century Paris, offering to its readers a secret love code.In Brazil these publications became known as Dictionary of Flowers and for years were part of the gal…
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