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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 Ciências Sociais from Universidade de São Paulo (1987), master's at Antropology from Universidade de São Paulo (1992) and ph.d. at Antropology from Universidade de São Paulo (1998). Has experience in Antropology, focusing on Anthropology of the Afro-Brazilian Populations, acting on the following subjects: religiões afro-brasileiras, neopentecostalismo, candomblé, artes afro-brasileiras and cultura brasileira. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This Project has as its main objective the consolidation of a network of social sciences researchers, within the area of the social and cultural anthropology, interested in analyzing the dynamics of the local and translocal afro-Brazilian religious migration networks. The project will encompass both general and detailed aspects that contribute to the construction of the identities and soc…
This Scientific Initiation research aims to investigate the process of patrimonialization of Afro-Brazilian culture, focusing on empirical observation on religious communities of African origins (terreiros) in São Paulo that are currently requesting listing with COMPRESP (Municipal Preservation Council). of the Historical, Cultural and Environmental Heritage of the City of São Paulo).From…
This research aims to investigate the cosmology of the "encantados", a specific category of entities that originated in the Amazon region, but today it's widespread in several cities in Brazil, including those more urbanized, such as São Paulo. According to the religious, the encantado is a deity who having lived on earth didn't go through the process of death, he's "encanta". This proces…
This research project aims to interpret the role that food offerings, or "saint foods", play in the cosmoperception of African-based religions by analyzing the ritualistic processes that involve: 1. The relationship between entities and their preferred votive foods; 2. The preparation of these in the ritual kitchen (choice of ingredients, preparation techniques, people consecrated for thi…
This anthropological research project aims to interpret the representations of Afro-Brazilian religions (Candomblé, Umbanda and others) in national filmography (fiction and documentary films), considering the significant presence of elements or references of these religions in this art. For this purpose, the research proposes a survey of cinematographic works that somehow focused on the u…
This project aims to analyze the socio-structural relationships that are established between capoeira (regional and angola) and religions of African matrices (especially candomblé and umbanda) which are ethnic-cultural manifestations of black origin raised to the category of symbols of identity national. We consider that these practices, because they were conceived from common experiences…
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The stage of research abroad proposed aims to deepen the theoretical-methodological issues that are being discussed in the current doctoral research being developed at the University of São Paulo, entitled The color of faith: "black identity" and religion, whose goal is to investigate the ways in which, over the last two decades, the speeches that use racial or ethnic references has been …
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