Coordination: Filipe Reis and Joana Lucas
The researchers involved in the research group Practices and Politics of Culture have been developing research on the contemporary processes of production, circulation and display of culture, topics that are central to contemporary anthropology.
Combining an ethnographic approach with a historical and critical perspective, the researches analyse the processes of circulation and rescaling of cultural forms, the commodification of culture, the role of museums, festivals and rituals in the process of objectification of culture, and the construction of sites as tourist destinations.
Heritage, tangible and intangible, has been at the core of the research group’s activity, culminating in two main achievements: a) the accreditation of CRIA as NGO consultant for UNESCO (Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage); and b) CRIA’s participation, along with other two research centres – INET-md and IELT –, in the FCT funded PhD program ‘Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology’ (NOVA FCSH and ISCTE-IUL), with two editions inaugurated in 2013 and 2015.
The research group Practices and Politics for Culture aims to contribute to the growing body of knowledge on diverse contemporary modes of production of culture by carrying out detailed ethnographic case studies focused on local communities’ experience and on historic sites classified as heritage.
The main research topics are the following:
- ‘Ethnology of heritage’ and of heritage practices;
- ‘Portable’ heritage and communities in transit (research conducted in conjunction with the research group Circulation and Place-Making);
- Ethnographic archives and the archives of the ethnographers;
- Performance, media, artistic practices, the aestheticization of heritage and its role in cultural programs and creative industries in urban and regional contexts;
- The uses of the visual in anthropology (joint activities with the thematic line NAVA – Visual Anthropology and Arts Laboratory);
- Ethnographic collections and the representations of colonial past in museums in Portugal.
Name | Category |
Adelaide Vieira Machado | Visiting researchers |
Agnela Barros | Associated researchers |
Ana Fonseca Figueiredo | Associated researchers |
Ana Gonçalves | Associated researchers |
Ana Piedade | Full members |
Ana Rita Costa | PhD students full members |
André Soares | Associated researchers |
António Medeiros | Associated researchers |
Arlindo Horta | PhD students full members |
Bruno Abrantes | Associated researchers |
Bruno Ferraz Bartel | Visiting researchers |
Carla Almeida | Full members |
Carla Queiroz | PhD students full members |
Carlos Lima | Associated researchers |
Carolina Boldoni | PhD students full members |
Carolina Granado Pinto | Associated researchers |
Catarina Alves Costa | Full members |
Catarina Leal | Associated researchers |
Cecília Avelino | PhD students full members |
Constança Vieira de Andrade | Associated researchers |
Cristiano Pereira | Associated researchers |
Cristina de Branco | Associated researchers |
Cristina Sá Valentim | Associated researchers |
Cyril Isnart | Associated researchers |
Debora Baldelli | Associated researchers |
Diana West | PhD students full members |
Eduarda Rovisco | Full members |
Ema Pires | Associated researchers |
Eunice Lopes | Associated researchers |
Eva Maria Blum | Associated researchers |
Fabiana Leonel de Castro | PhD students full members |
Fernando Cruz | Associated researchers |
Filipe Ferraz | Trainees |
Filipe Reis | Full members |
Filipe Verde | Full members |
Filomena Silvano | Full members |
Francisca Alves Cardoso | Full members |
Frédéric Vidal | Full members |
Frederico Rosa | Full members |
Giulia Panfili | PhD students full members |
Gonçalo Salvaterra | Associated researchers |
Helder Alicerces Bahu | Associated researchers |
Inês Lourenço | Full members |
Inês Mestre | PhD students full members |
Isabel Maria Nogueira | Trainees |
Joana Lucas | Full members |
Joana Miguel Almeida | PhD students full members |
Jorge Freitas Branco | Full members |
Kelen Pessuto | Associated researchers |
Marcela Jaramillo Contreras | PhD students full members |
Maria de Jesus Espada | Associated researchers |
Maria Isabel Machado Lemos | Associated researchers |
Maria José Fazenda | Full members |
Maria Ribeiro | Associated researchers |
Mariana Silva | PhD students full members |
Marianna F. M. Monteiro | Visiting researchers |
Mariela F. da Silveira | Associated researchers |
Marília Ennes | Visiting researchers |
Marta Prista | Full members |
Nélia Dias | Full members |
Nuno Porto | Associated researchers |
Paulo Costa | Associated researchers |
Paulo Raposo | Full members |
Raquel Moreira | Associated researchers |
Ricardo Santos Alexandre | Associated researchers |
Ricardo Seiça Salgado | Full members |
Rita Jerónimo da Silva | PhD students full members |
Robert Rowland | Full members |
Sandra C. S. Marques | Associated researchers |
Sara Mota | Associated researchers |
Sofia Sampaio | Full members |
Sónia Vespeira de Almeida | Full members |
Tânia Madureira | PhD students full members |
Tathiane Batista | Associated researchers |
Teresa Fradique | Full members |
Vera Marques Alves | Associated researchers |
Veralisa Brandão | Associated researchers |
Victor Hugo Barreto | Associated researchers |
Virtudes Téllez Delgado | Associated researchers |
Title | Type | Research group | Status | Info | Leading researcher |
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"Magazine Contacto": a multi-sited television production and the construction of the Portuguese national identity | Post-doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Sónia Ferreira |
"Ramadan in Lisbon" - A collective documentary | National project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Joana Lucas |
Archaeological sambaquis studies in the Amazonian coast of Pará | International project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Maura Imazio da Silveira (Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi) |
Archive technologies, social networks and biographical narratives: ethnography on memory in the digital age | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Sara Mota |
Between "sky and sand": tourism, travel and expeditions. Mapping discourses and practices on Mauritania | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Joana Lucas |
Between collections and museums in Mozambique: from colonial to postcolonial times | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Tânia Madureira |
Bone matters | National project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Francisca Alves Cardoso |
Borderlands: industry, culture and heritage | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Mariana Silva |
Ciganos 2.0: Ethnographying ICT uses and the presence of Portuguese Roma in social media | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Ana Rita Costa |
Common House | National project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Maria Cristina Rodrigues Abreu (J.F. Ajuda) |
Cultural differences, migration crisis and the future of the European heritage | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Marcela Jaramillo Contreras |
Cultures in the mirror: India and the consumer society in Lisbon | Post-doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Inês Lourenço |
Da imaterialidade à circularidade: a arte tradicional da tecelagem em Timor Leste | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Carolina Granado Pinto |
Diamang Digital | International project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Nuno Porto |
É Boi, É Boizinho: memory, ethnography and safeguarding of bull wrestling in the North of Portugal | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Cristiano Pereira |
Educação e cultura: a resignificação dos saberes Sateré-Mawé no território indígena | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Maria Ribeiro |
Exploring tourist and filmmaking practices through Portuguese non-fiction film: from the early travelogue to the tourism promotional film (1910-1980) | Researcher contract | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Sofia Sampaio |
FILMTUR-PORT - Behind the camera: practices of visuality and mobility in the Portuguese tourist film | National project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Sofia Sampaio |
Food as cultural heritage: confectionery in Portugal | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Inês Mestre |
Forms of resistance and marginality in prisons: creating possible worlds on the threshold of exclusion | Post-doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Ricardo Seiça Salgado |
From India to Portugal: post-colonial perspectives on museums, heritage and the circulation of culture | Post-doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Inês Lourenço |
Heritage 'live': producing visibility and touring the 'popular' | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Arlindo Horta |
Identity processes and cultural heritage: the construction of the Azorean imaginary descending on the Island of Santa Catarina | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Mariela F. da Silveira |
Identity, culture and art: the study of urban-periphery as stages for artistic intervention | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Diana West |
Indigenous displacement: identity reinvention by aymara artistic and cultural practices in São Paulo and Buenos Aires | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Cristina de Branco |
Intangible Cultural Heritage: heritage policies, agents and organizations. The heritigisation of Kola San Jon in Portugal | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Carla Queiroz |
IST: the first hundred years - culture, technology and society | National project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Jorge Freitas Branco |
Kututunda Ni Kutuia (the past and the present). Oral nineteenth century tradition Kimbundu literature | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Agnela Barros |
Literacies in context | National project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Luís Miguel Porfírio (AASPs) |
Maias and Maios in Portugal, ethnography of two cases | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Catarina Freire Leal |
Making wayang in between performing culture with 'rasa', 'komunitas', 'Nusantara' and UNESCO | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Giulia Panfili |
Masculinities negotiations and image-making processes among a group of young men in Maputo, Mozambique | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Andrea Moreira |
Materialization of memories: cultural landscape in Timor-Leste | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Carolina Boldoni |
Media representations of the nation: being Portuguese in the world | Post-doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Sónia Ferreira |
Memory of places and places of memory: re-qualification and musealization of symbolic sites of the Portuguese dictatorship | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Joana Miguel Almeida |
Objetos identitários, recursos turísticos: acervo, coleções e performances museográficas do Museu de Arte Sacra e Etnologia - Fátima | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Eunice Lopes |
Our Lady of the Navigators: when images and people make a pilgrimage on the waters | National project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Carla Almeida |
Património cultural imaterial: estratégias e práticas institucionais no Algarve | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Veralisa Brandão |
Periguetes no pagode baiano: speeches and performances | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Fabiana Leonel de Castro |
Popular, erudite, modern: architecture, culture, and identity | Post-doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Marta Prista |
Practices and representations of the body in Bengali India | Post-doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Sandra C. S. Marques |
Práticas sustentáveis: um estudo sobre o pós-folclorismo em Portugal no século XXI (EcoMusic) | National project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Maria do Rosário Pestana (INET-md) |
Re-interpreting tradition: relational ethics in a Japanese rural community | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Ricardo Santos Alexandre |
RELAB - Labour relations in Portugal and the Lusophone World 1800-2000: continuity and change | National project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Raquel Varela (IHC-NOVA FCSH) |
Shaping voids and building bridges: towards an ethic and legal framework and societal approach to Portuguese human identified skeletal collections (HISC) | Researcher contract | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Francisca Alves Cardoso |
Skeletal records: assessing health through osteological and historical data | Post-doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Francisca Alves Cardoso |
Territorial marketing and urban regeneration: a perspective of the projects "Parque das Nações"(Lisbon) and "La Confluence" (Lyon) | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Cecília Avelino |
The Mediterranean diet as Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. For an ethnography of its practices, impacts and touristic uses in Portugal and Morocco | Post-doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Joana Lucas |
The new storytelling performances and the limits of tradition: a comparative study between Rio de Janeiro and Cariri Cearense | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Maria Isabel Machado Lemos |
The osseous material of the Anatomy Museum of UFPA: paleobiological study | International project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Francisca Alves Cardoso |
The power of dance instruction. Latin social dances and the promotion of gender equality in Portugal | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Ana Fonseca Figueiredo |
The reinvented heritage: "patrimonialisation" of the intangible heritage in Portugal | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Rita Jerónimo da Silva |
The technical household: three generations speaking | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Constança Vieira de Andrade |
Tourism and cinema in Portugal: local perspectives on the production, circulation and reception of (trans)national texts and practices | Post-doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Sofia Sampaio |
Tourism and national identification in Cape Verde | Post-doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Eduarda Rovisco |
Tourism and transnational cinema: representations, fictions and cultural materialism | Post-doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Sofia Sampaio |
Transnational flows of female orishas performative in African-Brazilian cults in Lisbon | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Tathiane Batista |
Urban dance (s) and construction of angolanidade. Cultural policies of the Angolan State in contemporary times | Doctoral research | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | André Soares |
We are the Mediterranean | National project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Ongoing | + | Filipe Reis |
Work on screen: a study of social memories and identities through cinema | National project | Practices and Politics of Culture | Concluded | + | Luísa Veloso (CIES-IUL) |