graduate at Graduação em Ciências Sociais from Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (1983), master's at Diplôme D'Études Approfondies from École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (1987), master's at Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social from Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1993) and ph.d. at Antropologia from Universidade de Paris X - Nanterre (1998). Has experience in Antropology, focusing on Rural Anthropology, acting on the following subjects: populações rurais, mudança social, direitos, memória social and território. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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This research project regards the Kiriri indigenous people of Rio Verde who, coming from Muquém do São Francisco, West of Bahia, occupied, at the beginning of 2017, a land in the South of Minas Gerais, in the rural neighborhood Rio Verde, municipality of Caldas/MG. The permission to remain in the locality, which has its legal owner the state of Minas Gerais, was granted by the true owner …
This project deals with a Kiriri indigenous group, from Muquém de São Francisco / BA, who settled in the city of Caldas/MG through a camp set up on lands belonging to the government of the state of Minas Gerais. In the last almost thirty years, the "forma acampamento" has become the effective and symbolic way of claiming land in Brazil. Researchers were able to observe that, in addition t…
This research project focuses on a very relevant strategy of valorisation of agricultural produce: the protected Designation of Origin. The appellations d'origine contrôlée (AOC), the most widely used in France, is a certification system based on the concept of terroir - a definition that refers to the geographic, social and historical specifications for manufacturing certain produce, sup…
The overall objective of this research is to analyze the effects of ritualization and sacralization of peasant and indigenous leaders, killed in land conflict zones in the Amazon and Brazilian Northeast, to understand the symbolic dimension of the struggle for land in these regions of the country, from Carrying out ethnographic fieldwork in three pilgrimages organized and/or supported by …
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This research project focuses on a very relevant strategy of valorisation of agricultural produce: the protected Designation of Origin. The appellations d'origine contrôlée (AOC), the most widely used in France, is a certification system based on the concept of terroir - a definition that refers to the geographic, social and historical specifications for manufacturing certain produce, sup…
This project is part of doctoral research investigating the trajectory of religious leaders, unions, peasants and indigenous people, violently killed in areas of intense land conflict in Brazil, and the process turned into martyrs and/or enchanted, focusing on The Earth Pilgrimages, water, forest and hiking in the Martyrs, and the annual meeting of the people Xukuru of the Ororubá. The pu…
The current research is a continuation of a longstanding research, which is currently developing a comparative study between the cases studied before (Mejía, 2008, 2012) of the Ayotitlán's Nahua, Mexico , and Tupinambá of in Brazil which, on the argument of "assimilation" and "acculturation", no longer considered as indigenous. However, in the late twentieth century both collectives began…
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| 13 / 8 | Completed scholarships in Brazil |
| 5 / 5 | Completed scholarships abroad |
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