About
Research Context
Portugal | Brazil | North America
Research Interests
Ritual and performance | History of Anthropology | Festivals | National Identity
Institutional Subunit
NOVA FCSH
Biographical Note
João Leal holds a PhD in Social Anthropology (ISCTE, Lisbon) and he is currently Full Professor at the Department of Anthropology (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), and a senior researcher at CRIA. His mais topics of research include ritual and performance - especially Holy Ghost Festivals - and the history of Portuguese anthropology. He is the author of “As Festas do Espírito nos Açores: Um Estudo de Antropologia Social” (Holy Ghost Festivals in the Azores: An Anthropological Study, Lisbon, Dom Quixote, 1994), “Etnografias Portuguesas (1870-1970): Cultura Popular e Identidade Nacional” (Portuguese Ethnographies 1870-1970: Folk Culture and National Identity, Lisbon, Dom Quixote, 2000), “Antropologia em Portugal: Mestres, Percursos, Transições” (Anthropology in Portugal: Authors, Routes, Transitions, Lisbon, Horizonte, 2006), “Azorean Identity in Brazil and the United States: Arguments about History, Culture and Transnational Connections” (Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth) and ("O Culto do Divino. Migrações e Transformações" (The Cult of Holy Ghost. Migrations and Transformations", Lisbon, Edições 70, 2017)
