CV Lattes
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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
graduate at História from Universidade de São Paulo (1973), master's at History from Universidade de São Paulo (1989) and ph.d. at History from Universidade de São Paulo (1997). Has experience in History, focusing on History, acting on the following subjects: escravidão, são paulo, urbanização, abolição and pós-abolição. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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During the second half of the nineteenth century, West-Central Africa was the stage of an intensification of European expeditions that channeled economic, political and scientific interests towards the continent's interior. The following study intends to analyze the important role occupied by material culture in the scientific agenda of the portuguese expedition to the Lunda headed by mil…
Jaime Cortesão (1884-1960) lived in Brazil between 1940 and 1957 and during this period constituted most part of his historiographical work. Emigrated from Portugal by Salazar pressure, he has enjoyed quite privileged conditions to his intellectual production; both government institutions in which he worked as well as the relationships he has cultivated favored those conditions.The analys…
This book focuses on the connections between the production of wooden sculptures, known as mashinamu or makonde art, and Mozambique's history under the point of view of the makonde population and its political and artistic participation in the country, from 1950 until 1974. This period comprehends two essential moments for the group's social dynamics: the first, between 1950 and 1959, is …
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This study proposes an investigation into the "Irmandade das Almas", cited in a 1890 police record (APESP collection) as a criminal organization. Allegedly composed mainly of Africans (probably formerly enslaved), the organization was active in the villages around the Vale do Paraíba region in São Paulo aspiring to "cure and poison". From a Social History perspective, the primordial goal …
The objective of this research is to analyze the incidence of sexual violence and rape as a weapon of war in the genocide of Rwanda, in 1994, through the documentation made available by the Unified Court Records, which makes accessible the testimonies produced during the trials at the International Criminal Court for Rwanda. (TPIR). The testimonies are transcriptions of speeches given in …
In this research, we seek to investigate the dialogues between History and Literature, reflecting on the possible uses of Scholastique Mukasonga's book, Cockroaches (2018), as a pedagogical instrument in the Brazilian Educational System. We propose an analysis of this fictional book, narrated by a survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, remarkable for its solid testimonial tone. We underst…
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The current debate on the repatriation of cultural goods plundered in the context of European colonialism and that make up the collection of its most relevant museums, meets the problems analyzed by the doctoral research in progress, regarding the role played by museology and patrimonial policies in the support of narratives on African and Amerindian peoples, raising fundamental questions…
This research internship is part of a wider investigation whose principle focus is the history of the Makonde of Mozambique within the context of the production of art and culture in Mozambique between the 1950s and the present day. The ongoing investigation seeks to understand the position occupied by Makonde art and culture in the construction of a Mozambican cultural heritage, as well …
This research project aims to point out the need to conduct an abroad internship research focused on the documentary research and bibliographic able to broaden the discussions held by the current Master thesis entitled "Trade, prestige goods and insignia of power: the African Western central agencies in the travel accounts of Henrique de Carvalho in his expedition to the Lunda (1884-1888)…
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