Country of residence

Portugal

Brief introduction

Postdoctoral Researcher, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa

Education

PhD, 2007, Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa

Academic profile

I performed research among Evangelical and Pentecostal Gypsies in Portugal and Spain between 2002 and 2007. My main topics of research were: music, identity, politics, memory.

Publications

• 2008, Os Aleluias. Ciganos Evangélicos e Música [The ‘Aleluias’. Evangelical Gypsies and Music]. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais. [ISBN:978-972671225-1]
• 2008, “Satan, Agent Musical. Le Diable et le pouvoir ambivalent de la musique parmi les tsiganes évangéliques de la Péninsule Ibérique”, Terrain 50: 82-99.
• 2006, “The Atheist Anthropologist. Believers and Non-Believers in Anthropological Fieldwork”, Social Anthropology 14 (2): 223-234.

Keywords

Memory, Politics, Identities

Contact

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