About
Research Context
Beira Baixa, Portugal | Marseille and Paris, France.
Research Interests
Digital infrastructures of figuration | Popular Judaisms | Art-religion-science-politics | Museums & anthropology
Institutional Subunit
NOVA FCSH
Biographical Note
Pedro has a PhD in Anthropology from the ISCTE, Lisbon (2021), with a thesis on revitalised vernacular religious repertoires among return migrants in Beira Baixa, Portugal. He is a visiting assistant professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a researcher at the CRIA. Since 2022, Pedro has developed the project 'eSefarad: modalities and practices of digital heritagisation of the Sephardic culture in Mediterranean contexts' at the CRIA, focusing on the trajectories of Jewish-Maghrebi material culture. He has published on the feminisation of women's ritual repertoires (Antunes & Edral 2014; Antunes 2019), the heritagisation of animist vernacular performances (Antunes 2020; 2024). More recently conducted museum-based anthropology on the exile materialities of Algerian Jewish exiles in Paris
