CV Lattes
Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
I am a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and Civilization at the European University Institute (EUI). I completed my Master's in the Social History Postgraduate Program at the University of São Paulo, where I also earned my Bachelor's degree. My research experience focuses on the history of early modern Catholic missions in West Central Africa, specifically the Jesuit missions in Congo and Angola during the 16th and 17th centuries. In addition, I have a keen interest in the history of anthropological thought, with particular experience in studying and writing about the work of the Italian ethnologist Ernesto de Martino. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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To approach the missionary mediation of the encounter between Portuguese and Central-Africans is to displace our attention from the cultures understood as systems of beliefs toward how both sides of the encounter situated themselves in relation with each other. It means to advance identities as networks and changes in which the subjects get involved actively. On one hand, the missionaries…
This work is focused on the first Jesuit mission in the so-called Kingdom of Kongo. The Jesuits arrived in Central Africa in 1548 and the last representative of the order went back to Europe in 1555. The first contact between the Portuguese and the Congolese occurred in 1483. Our investigation aims at studying a specific seven-year period, which took place more than half a century after t…
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