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After death. The intangible restoration of the Commendation of Souls

public.project.responsible_investigator_cria: Pedro Antunes

public.project.research_group: Circulation and Place-Making


public.project.category

Doctorate Degree Projects

public.project.keyword

Return migration | Ritual | Performance | Anthropology of religion | Death | Intangible cultural heritage

public.project.institution_funder

Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT)

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public.project.start_date

01-01-2015

public.project.end_date

16-06-2021

public.project.reference

PD/BD/113912/2015


public.project.abstract

The revitalization of the religious death cult of the Commendation of Souls in a set of villages in Beira Baixa, is the locus for an ethnographic research project about contemporary conceptions and practices of locality, heritage, identity and gender, also aiming to study "emic" understandings and/or re-conceptualization death ontologies and "persohood", entangled in the ritual"s process.

public.project.team

Full members

João Leal