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Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Centro de Educação e Ciências Humanas (CECH) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Suécia
Dr. Olof Ohlson is currently a visiting researcher at The University of Gothenburg, Sweden, collaborating professor and an associated researcher at the Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, with a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from The University of Edinburgh, and an MSc from London School of Economics. Author of Mexico's Rebellious Afterlives: Armed Uprisings and Activism in the Narco War (Lexington Books, 2022), and Fieldnotes from Mexico: La Noche de Iguala (EdUFSCar, 2024). Research interests: (i) religion and rituals (Mexicos Day of the Dead, Transcendental Meditation); (ii) social movements (activism, human rights), and (iii) both classic and experimental ethnography (fieldnotes-based writing, sound installations, ethnographic film-making). Cocreator and organizer of the research group Estudos em Antropologia de Religião (Studies in Anthropology of Religion) at The Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS) at UFSCar: https://ear-ufscar.webnode.page/?_ga=2.87873496.15705483.1706608895-1218049160.1706608894. Also member of Grupo de Estudo e Pesquisa sobre Relações de Poder, Conflitos, Socialidades jointly run by the universities USP and UFSCar in Brazil. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This postdoc project proposes an ethnographic study of "the social lives of the dead" as they are sustained in the material and visual culture of the Nahua community San Andrés Mixquic during Mexico's famous Day of the dead celebration. In this religious festivity, the dead are said to come back to eat from food offerings put forth to them at altars at cemeteries, at home and in public sp…
This research project under a visiting stay abroad proposes to produce an ethnographic short film about the Day of the Dead at three sites (Merida, San Andrés Míxquic, and San Diego). Footage from the first two sites have already been collected in field trips in 2022 and 2023, and this year a trip to San Diego is scheduled to tape the celebrations known as Santa Ana's Dia de los Muertos F…
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