About

Research Context

Portugal | Bolivia | Brazil | Italy

Research Interests

Religion | Rights | Minorities | Prison | Secularism | Morality and crime | Strctural violence

Institutional Subunit

UMinho

Biographical Note

Francesca Cerbini has focused the majority of her research in Latin America, specifically investigating the penitentiary institution. Her research interests encompass medical anthropology, anthropology of food, and anthropology of violence in marginal contexts spanning South America, and Europe. Within the "Young Talent" program (CAPES and CNPq), she was research fellow at the Universidade Estadual do Ceará in Fortaleza, Brazil. Currently, she is engaged in a long term ethnography exploring the interplay between religions and daily life in Portuguese prisons.