BA in Social Sciences from the Federal University of São Carlos (2006), Master in Social Sciences (emphasis in Anthropology) from the same University (2008), and PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Brasília (2012). I am an Associate Professor of the Department of Anthropology of the University of Campinas since 2013, and I was Head of the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at the same institution between 2015 and 2017. Head of Department since August 2021. From August 2019 to July 2020, I was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography of the University of Oxford. Since 2005 I have been carrying out research, extension and documentation projects with the Kalapalo, speakers of a variety of the Upper Xingu (MT) karib language. I have experience in Indigenous Ethnology, mainly in politics, kinship, ritual and regional systems. From 2011 to 2014, I coordinated the Kalapalo Culture Documentation Project (PRODOCult), part of the Indian Museum / FUNAI Indigenous Language and Culture Documentation Program, in which I continued to participate as a guest researcher until June 2015. I am an effective associate of the Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA) and member of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America (SALSA). From July 2014 to July 2019, I have coordinated the project "Transforming Amerindian Regional Systems: the Upper Xingu Case", which was supported by FAPESP with a Young Researcher research grant. Father of two. (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 …
This research project aims to do an ethnography of the forms of sociality of Kalapalo children, focusing their transits between the village and cities around the Xingu Indigenous Park. The research aims to continue an earlier research in which it was systematized the Kalapalo's own people formation processes and to understand how children constantly perceive, appropriate and reformulate t…
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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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