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Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Instituto de Filosofia e Ciências Humanas (IFCH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
I hold a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences from the Federal University of São Carlos (2006), a Master's degree in Social Sciences (with an emphasis on Anthropology) from the same university (2008), and a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Brasília (2012). I was awarded the title of 'Livre-Docente' (Habilitation) in Ethnology by the State University of Campinas in 2024. Since 2013, I have been a permanent faculty member of the Department of Anthropology at the State University of Campinas. I served as Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the same institution from 2015 to 2017 and as Head of the Department of Anthropology from August 2021 to July 2025. Between August 2019 and July 2020, I was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford (United Kingdom). Since 2005, I have developed research, outreach, and documentation projects with the Kalapalo, speakers of a variety of the Karib language from the Upper Xingu (MT). My expertise lies in Indigenous Ethnology, particularly focusing on themes of politics, kinship, ritual, and territoriality. From 2011 to 2014, I coordinated the Kalapalo Cultural Documentation Project (PRODOCult), part of the Indigenous Languages and Cultures Documentation Program of the Museu do Índio/FUNAI, and continued to participate as a guest researcher until its conclusion in June 2015. I am a full member of the Brazilian Anthropological Association (ABA) and the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA). From July 2014 to July 2019, I coordinated the project "Amerindian Regional Systems in Transformation: The Case of Upper Xingu," which received funding from FAPESP under the Young Investigator modality. I am a father of two children. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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The visiting researcher's activities include: 1. Teaching a short course on indigenous Amazonian iconography at UNICAMP. 2. Convening a workshop on Upper Xingu ethnology in collaboration with Prof Antonio Guerreiro Junior. 3. Attendance of research seminars at Centro de Pesquisa em Etnologia Indigena (CPEI) of UNICAMP and at Centro de Estudos Amerindios (CEstA) of USP. 4. Writing two arti…
This project intends to contribute to the understanding of the so-called "regional systems" of indigenous South America, and to consolidate a research line on this topic at the PPGAS/Unicamp. Its thematic focus is the contemporary dynamics and transformations of the multiethnic and multilingual complex of the Upper Xingu (Xingu Indigenous Park, MT). The ethnographic research will focus on…
This research project intends to do an ethnography about the sociality of indigenous families of the Kalapalo people in the city of Querência (MT), located around the Xingu Indigenous Territory (TIX), where some people choose to live and, in some cases, they come to recognize themselves as residents. I intend to understand how the manufacture of the person is linked to the house and the l…
This research project is dedicated to the investigation of the aesthetic-visual realm of the Guarani-Kaiowá, a Tupi-Guarani speaking people who inhabit the southern region of Mato Grosso do Sul. This realm will be analyzed through a diverse set of elements - productions, practices and knowledge, both contemporary and by them regarded as traditional - that should contribute to illuminate t…
The aim of this project is to systematize and analyze, in an initial and exploratory way, the genealogical information currently available on the peoples of the Upper Xingu, starting from materials already published or gathered in censuses. By organizing the data on a standardized digital database, we intend to evaluate how existing data, based on genealogies of local groups, can be used …
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This research investigates the experiences of Kalapalo people who leave their indigenous villages in the Xingu Indigenous Territory to pursue technical and higher education in urban centers. The study aims to understand how these educational trajectories impact their personal identities, cultural practices, and connections with their communities. Specifically, it explores how the experien…
This project proposes a 12-month research internship at the Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas (SRU), a research centre based in the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts at the University of East Anglia (United Kingdom). During this period, under the supervision of Dr Aristoteles Barcelos Neto, I will develop activities related to my doctoral research on …
This research project aims to describe the main activities to be carried out during the internship period linked to the The New School for Social Research - USA. The internship period abroad has the main objective of contributing to deepening the dialogue of the ethnographic material of the transformations between the Kalapalo of the Upper Xingu and the literature on childhood in Anthropo…
The aim of this research is to analyze a set of oral performances associated to historical sites of the Kalapalo, a Carib-speaking people of the Upper Xingu (MT, Brazil). Starting from a close association between events, characters and the landscape, I intend to investigate how a long history of transformations is inscribed in a network of places and elaborated by means of Kalapalo verbal…
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