CV Lattes
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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: Brazil
Has a B.A. in Economics from Universidade de São Paulo (1982), a Master's in Antropology from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1987) and Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Chicago (1991). Has extensive fieldwork in Northeast Brazil (1988-1991) and his publications focus on Antropological Theory, C Lévi-Strauss, complex societies and exchange theory. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This research aims to study the actors, relationships, knowledges, discourses, values and dynamics involved in the performance of philanthropic institutions with religious ties in three cities in the interior of São Paulo. The analysis will be based on ethnographic, bibliographical and historical research, aiming at apprehending different compositions and world views present at each point…
This research aims to study the flows of exchanges and interactions involved in ritual and everyday activities of a spiritist center and a group of studies in São Carlos-SP, focusing on both incarnated and disincarnated agents involved in the network. The analysis shall be founded on ethnographic and bibliographic research aimed at apprehending the circuits of gifts and ranking processes …
This research aims to study the process of construction of the person in the Seventh-day Adventist Church, focusing on analysis of individual salvation. I propose attendance of worships and biblical studies in a church of São Carlos, interior of São Paulo, as well as reflection on the adventist canon, in order to apprehend the movements that operate the transformation of the mundane indiv…
After writing an ethnography of exchange in 1995 ("A dívida divina"), a monography about a small town in Rio Grande do Norte, in subsequent decades I continued research on gift theory as well as acting as advisor of thesis and dissertations around it, as well as the relations between gift and market exchange and the constitution of several hierarchical figures such as patrons priests, pol…
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