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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
He is currently an Associate Professor I (Livre-Docente 5.1) at the Campinas State University (Unicamp), where he is a professor in the Department of Anthropology. He also teaches in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology and the Graduate Program in Social Sciences (Heritage and Memory Studies), both at the Institute of Philosophy and Human Sciences at Unicamp. He holds a bachelor's degree in Social Sciences and a master's degree in Social Anthropology from Unicamp. He developed his doctoral thesis in Social Anthropology at Unicamp, researching the career of British anthropologist Mary Douglas and the Anglophone Africanist field. During his doctoral studies, he completed a doctoral internship at Brunel University, London. He worked as a research fellow at the Center for Gender Studies (PAGU) at the Campinas State University. He conducted postdoctoral research with an emphasis on Material Culture and Museology, investigating the intellectual work of anthropologist Curt Nimuendajú. He was Academic Director of the Edgard Leuenroth Archive - Center for Social Research and Documentation (IFCH - UNICAMP). He was the Assistant Coordinator of the Social Sciences Undergraduate Program at IFCH Unicamp. Together with Heloísa Pontes and Maria Filomena Gregori, professors in the Department of Anthropology at Unicamp, he founded the Symbolic Production and Anthropology Workshop (APSA), based at IFCH, Unicamp. He is the Scientific Editor of PROA - Unicamp's Journal of Anthropology and Art. He is a member of the Editorial Board of Campos - Journal of Social Anthropology of the Graduate Program in Anthropology at the Federal University of Paraná. He is currently the Coordinator of the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at Unicamp. His research interests include History of Anthropology; Social and Cultural History; Material Culture and Museums; Conflict and Difference. His work includes Anthropological Theory; Anthropology and History; and Ethnography of Knowledge. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Curt Nimuendaju (1883-1945) and William Fagg (1914-1992) both had an enormous impact in the making of anthropology in Brazil and in the United Kingdom, respectively. They found the possibility of constituting their careers in anthropology by assembling ethnographic collections and studying material culture. The distinctive ways in which they dealt with the constraints of Brazilian and Bri…
This project aims to understand the process of creating mindfulness meditation as a therapeutic practice that claims scientific legitimacy in the psy field. Mindfulness is a practice of guidance in the present transformed into an eight-week protocol by molecular biologist Jon Kabat-Zinn, with therapeutic goals. Since then, the practice has been used in hospitals and offices, while its pro…
The relationship between anthropology and cinema was consolidated during the 20th century, with audiovisuals as both a tool for ethnographic research and an object for analysing the field. Based on this common ground between film and anthropological studies, this research aims to ethnographically analyse the relationships that yellow filmmakers weave with their ancestry through the films …
Fibromyalgia (FM) is a syndrome characterized by chronic musculoskeletal pain, besides manifestations of fatigue, sleep disorders and cognitive and psychiatric changes. In the International Classification of Diseases number 11 (ICD-11), which came into force at the beginning of 2022, it was included in the category of "generalized chronic pain". The recognition of the chronic nature of pa…
This research aims to investigate the impact of digitalization on the interpretation of archival documents and on the understanding of the history of anthropology. To this end, the discussion on the ethnography of documents and materialities is mobilized, with a view to reflecting on the history of anthropology produced in archives. It is intended to develop it through the ethnography of …
This postdoctoral project focuses on the processes of patrimonialization of cultural expressions carried out in Southern African countries with the purpose of recognition by Unesco as Cultural Heritage of Humanity. The research will be carried out on two research fronts: the survey and analysis of the application dossiers and a case study, in comparative perspective, of the processes thro…
The science fiction is a movie genre that, by definition, deals with questions related to otherness and its correlation with social markers. Taking that into account, this project has a double intention. First, to historicize science fiction's representations since the beginning of blockbuster era, willing to understand its themes, narrative structures and schemes. On the other hand, comp…
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This project proposes a research internship at University College London (UCL), from October 2026 to March 2027, under the supervision of Professor Joanna Cook, an international reference in anthropological studies on mindfulness, mental health, and Buddhism. The proposal is part of my doctoral project in Social Anthropology at State University of Campinas (UNICAMP), which investigates th…
This research aims to continue the reflection on the intellectual trajectory of Roberto Cardoso de Oliveira, that until that moment of the investigation was focused on his contributions to Brazilian anthropology, although it contains scopes that exceed these limits. The research in Mexico will be focused on the documents that Cardoso de Oliveira produced in his stays in the country and th…