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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
bachelor's at Ciências Políticas e Sociais from Pontifícia Universidade Católica (1981), master's at História da Cultura from Pontifícia Universidade Católica (1993) and doctorate at History from Universidade Federal Fluminense (1999). Has experience in History, acting on the following subjects: história da áfrica, cultura afro-brasileira, religiosidade afro-brasileira, cultura popular and história atlântica. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Beyond the visible: power, catholicism and trade at Congo and Angola, XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, concerns with the ways that Central African societies that got in touch with the Portuguese since the end of the XVth century respond to their presence and how the relations established in the region took different features. The new possibilities of trade created new interests in the local so…
Composed mostly by freed Africans and their descendants, the resumed, that called themselves Brazilians, begun to come downtown. The Wester African Coast starting in 1835. They came mainly from Salvador and sub-ex-captives significantly transformed the human composition of coast societies where they established themselves. As a separate community, but in permanent dialogue with the contex…
The research seeks to understand the dynamics of trade and slave trafficking and the political-diplomatic relations established between the Portuguese Crown and the kingdom of Congo during the reign of Mani Congo D. Afonso I (1506-1543) and the Portuguese kings D. João II , D. Manuel I and D. João III through correspondence exchanged during this period. We also seek to analyze the role of…
This research aims to understand the simultaneous presence of indigenous ancestors, "cowboys" and other social representations in the cults of caboclos in the religions of the Central African diaspora, especially in Candomblé de Angola and Umbanda. In addition, it seeks to investigate other meanings for the symbols and discourses related to a Brazilian identity present in some of these cu…
The present project intends to continue the study initiated in the PIBIC 2020-2021 announcement about the Mãe Preta (Black Mother) monument, made by Júlio Guerra and installed in the Largo do Paissandu in São Paulo, nearby Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Pretos Church. Important sculpture of the black cultural heritage tour of São Paulo's downtown, it stands out as a point of referenc…
The aim of this project is to analyze a series of historical sources (letters, stories and memories) concerned to the transcultural and transatlantic relations maintained between monarchs of the Dahomey Kingdom and Portuguese-Brazilian authorities, in the period between 1795 and 1805, in which two dahomenian embassies arrived to Bahia. Besides that, there was the dynastic succession betwe…
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