About
Research Context
Portugal | Cape Verde | Mozambique
Research Interests
Visual Anthropology | Documentary Film | Etnographic Arquives | Film History
Institutional Subunit
NOVA FCSH
Biographical Note
Catarina Alves Costa is a filmmaker and a visual anthropologist. She directs films since 1992, won various international prizes and published different works on documentary and ethnographic films. She is currently a Professor in Visual Culture at the Department of Anthropology, Nova University in Lisbon, where she convenes courses in Visual Anthropology and Museology. She holds a PHD in Anthropology from Lisbon Nova University and an MA in Visual Anthropology from the Granada Centre for Visual Anthropology, Manchester. Collaborates with different post graduation studies abroad: Barcelona, Spain, São Paulo University, Brazil and Mexico City.