Festa, Nação e Migrações: Antropologia com João Leal

Sónia Vespeira de Almeida, José Mapril, José Neves, Marta Prista (orgs.)

Disponível online em acesso aberto | Available online in open access https://books.openedition.org/etnograficapress/11392

Throughout his career, João Leal devoted himself to the study of festivity in the Azores, as well as in North America and Brazil. Along the way, his books and articles became part of scholarly research on emigration, addressing, among other aspects, its importance in religious and ritual dynamics. In parallel, this anthropologist made a highly significant contribution to the construction of the history of anthropology in Portugal. At different moments, he revisited Portuguese ethnography’s fascination with popular culture and guided us through the cultural wars over images of ‘the people’, waged across various exercises in the thematisation of Portuguese national identity. This volume brings together contributions by more than twenty colleagues from different universities—mostly anthropologists, but also scholars from other disciplines, ranging from architecture to history. In different ways, all were, in one manner or another, shaped and challenged by João Leal’s work and knowledge