Curriculum Vitae
Name Rosa Maria Perez Nationality Portuguese
Institutional Address Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Av. das Forças Armadas, 1600 Lisboa, Portugal
Tel: 351(1)7935000 ext. 12031 Fax: 351(1)7964710 E Mail: rosa.perez@iscte.pt;
rperez.perez@gmail.com
Academic Degrees
Ph.D. in Anthropology, ISCTE, Lisbon, Thesis topic: Caste and Untouchability in Western India, 1992.
MA in Anthropology, ISCSP, Lisbon, 1980;
MA in Classical Studies, FL, UL, Lisbon, 1976.
Present Position
Associate Professor of Anthropology, Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), 2001 to present.
Head of the Department of Anthropology Member of the Scientific Board of the Institute Languages
fluent: French; English, Spanish
conversational level : Italian, Gujarate, modern Greek other: classical Greek and Latin
Main Research Interests
Portuguese colonialism and postcolonialism in India
Globalisation and Diaspora
Nationalism and Gender
Systems and processes of segregation Subaltern studies
Professional appointments
2006- … consultant, Academic Network for European Research on India, European Commission 2006, April: member, Panel of Anthropology, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia;
2005-… member, International Panel of Anthropology, European Science Foundation
2001 June and September: member, Panel of Anthropology, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia;
2000, April: member Panel of Anthropology, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia;
1999-2002: member of the Executive Board of the European Science Foundation – Asia Committee;
1999, April e September: member, Panel of Anthropology, Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia;
1996-1998: member of the bilateral Luso-Indian Commission, appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs;
1996-1998: member of the bilateral Luso-Moroccan Commission, appointed by the Minister for Foreign Affairs;
1996-… member, International Association of South Asian Studies (IASAS);
1995 (December) – 1999 (February) Deputy Commissioner of for the National Commission for the Celebration of Portuguese Travels, by appointment of the Prime Minister;
1994-1996: executive board, Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social (CEAS);
1994… : member, South Asian Anthropological Group (SAAG);
1994… : member, European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA);
1994… : member, Grupo de Estudos de Género (GEN);
1991-1994: president, Centro de Estudos de Antropologia Social (CEAS);
Membership of Editorial Teams
Diaspora, Journal of J.Nehru University (Delhi)
Oriente, Portuguese Journal of Oriental Studies (Lisbon) 1996-2000: Etnografica (Lisbon)
1976-1978: Clássica (Lisbon)
Referee, journals peer reviewed Portuguese Studies (London)
Etnográfica (Lisbon) Análise Social (Lisbon)
Teaching experience
Portugal
Department of Anthropology, ISCTE 2006-2007
Mapas Etnográficos 1 – Ásia Etnografia da Índia
Teorias e Problemáticas da Antropologia 4 Teorias, Problemas e Tendências da Antropologia 2005-2006
História da Antropologia Antropologia das Religiões Índia. Cidades em Viagem 2003-2004
Fall: sabatic
Orientalismo, Nacionalismo e Género
Teorias, Problemas e Contornos da Antropologia Antropologia das Religiões
2001-2002
Semiologia e Linguística 2000-2001
Semiologia e Linguística
Do Orientalismo ao Pós-Colonialismo Antropologia das Religiões. Ásia do Sul 1999-2000
sabatic 1998-1999
Semiologia e Linguística Antropologia das Religiões;
1997-98
Raça, Segregação e Etnicidade Etnografia da Índia;
[1995-1998: appointed as Deputy Commissioner for the National Commission for the Celebration of Portuguese Travels, by the Prime Minister on the 18th December, 1995, article nº4, law 391/86, 22.11].
1990-1991, 1991-1992 1993-94, 1994-95, 1995-96 Semiologia e Linguística
1989-1990 on leave 1988-1989
Etnografia do Subcontinente IndianoII Semiologia e Linguística
1986-1987 , 1987-1988 on leave
1985-1986
Etnografia do Subcontinente Indiano Semiologia e Linguística
1984-85
Etnografia do Subcontinente Indiano II Semiologia e Linguística
1979-1984 : Department of Anthropology, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
1979-80, 1980-81, 1981-82:
Antropologia Linguística
1979-80, 1980-81, 1981-82, 1982-83, 1983-84 Semiologia
Abroad
2006 (January-February) visiting professor, Goa University, India
2005, Spring, visiting professor, Brown University, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Watson Institute for International Relations
2002-2003: visiting professor, Brown University, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies 2002 (February-March) visiting professor, Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique 2000-2001: Fall, visiting professor Brown University, Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Department of Anthropology;
1993 (February-March): visiting professor Instituto Universitario Europeo, Florence;
Service to the University
2005, Maio – …, Chair, Department of Anthropology
2005, Mayo – …., Scientific Board, Department of Anthropology 2005, Mayo – …., Scientific Board, ISCTE
2005-2006, executive board, Department of Anthropology 2005-2006, coordinator, Erasmus Program, ISCTE
2003-2004 (spring): director, Teaching Board, Department of Anthropology 2001 (spring) – 2002: Scientific Board, Department of Anthropology
2001 (spring) – 2002: Pedagogic Board, ISCTE
1999-2000: coordinator, Erasmus Program, ISCTE
1993-95: director, Teaching Board, Department of Anthropology 1988-89, 1989-90: : Pedagogic Board, ISCTE
1975-76: Executive Board, Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Clássica de Lisboa.
Publications 1. Books
PEREZ, Rosa Maria, ed. - Os portugueses e o Oriente: história., itinerários, representações. Lisbon: Publicações Dom Quixote, 2006.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - Kings and untouchables: a study of the caste system in western India. New Delhi: DC Publishers, 2004.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria, CARVALHO, Clara, ed. – Mirrors of empire. Oeiras: Celta Editora, 2002.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria, ed. - Culturas do Índico: roteiro. Lisbon: CNCDP, 1998 (English version Cultures of the Indian Ocean).
PEREZ, Rosa Maria, ed. - Memórias árabo-islâmicas em Portugal. Lisbon: CNCDP, 1997 (English, French and Arabic versions).
PEREZ, Rosa Maria; et al., ed - Histórias de Goa. Lisbon: M.N.E., 1997 (English version Goan Stories).
PEREZ, Rosa Maria, ed. - A roda de fiar. Lisbon: CNCDP, 1997 (bilingual, Portuguese and English).
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Reis e intocáveis. Um estudo do sistema de castas no norte da Índia. Oeiras: Celta Editora, 1994 (1st edition: out of stock, 2
ndedition: in print).
Other, editor:
PEREZ, Rosa Maria, ed. – Cultures in travel. Oriente (dossier). Nº 17 ( 2007).
CHAUDURI, Kirti, FLORES, Jorge, PEREZ, Rosa Maria, eds. - Culturas do Índico. Oceanos (special issue). Nº 34 (1998).
2. Articles
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Introduction. In PEREZ, Rosa Maria, ed. - Os portugueses e o Oriente: história, itinerários, representações. Lisbon: Publicações Dom Quixote, 2006. p. 13-36.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Sonhos imperiais. Rupturas e negociações do colonialismo português na Índia.
In PEREZ, Rosa Maria, ed. - Os portugueses e o Oriente: história, itinerários, representações. Lisbon:
Publicações Dom Quixote, 2006. p.131-151.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Portugal. In Encyclopedia of the Indian Diaspora. Singapore: Didier et Meillet;
Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2006.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Mapping The Indian Dispora in Europe. Society, Culture and Policy, www.
aneri.com;
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - The limits of feminism. Women and untouchability in rural Gujarat. In FRUZZETTI, Lina, ed.; TENHUMEN, Sirpa, ed. - Culture, power and agency. Gender in Indian ethnography. Kolkata: Stree, 2006. p. 90-109.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - The rhetoric of empire. Gender representations in Portuguese India. Portuguese Studies. Nº 21 ( 2005), p. 126-141.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria; CARVALHO, Clara– Introduction. In PEREZ, Rosa Maria,CARVALHO, Clara, eds.; – Mirrors of empire. Oeiras: Celta Editora, 2002. p. 5 -14.
FRUZZETTI, Lina; PEREZ, Rosa Maria - The gender of the Nation: allegoric feminity and women’s status in Bengal and Goa. In PEREZ, Rosa Maria, CARVALHO, Clara, ed. – Mirrors of empire. Oeiras:
Celta Editora, 2002. p. 41-58.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Portuguese orientalism. Some problems on sociological classification. In SOUZA, Teotónio de, ed. - The Portuguese and the socio cultural changes in India. Delhi: Manohar, 2002, p.7-18.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Introduction and notes. In ABREU, G. de Vasconcelos – Investigações sobre o carácter da civilização ária – hindu. Macau: CTMCDP, 1999. p.IX – XIX.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - An untouchable caste of Gujarat: the contradictions of tradition. In ASSAYAG, Jackie, org. - The resources of history. Tradition, narration and nation in South Asia. Paris: Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient, Etudes thématiques 8, 1999. p. 199-212.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Opening Note. In PEREZ, Rosa Maria, org. - Culturas do Índico: roteiro. Lisbon:
CNCDP, 1998. p.17 (English version Cultures of the Indian Ocean).
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Introduction. In PEREZ, Rosa Maria, org. - Culturas do Índico: roteiro. Lisbon:
CNCDP, 1998. p. 19-25 (English version Cultures of the Indian Ocean).
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – A viagem das culturas. O corpo. In PEREZ, Rosa Maria, org. - Culturas do Índico: roteiro. Lisbon: CNCDP, 1998. p. 223-229 (English version Cultures of the Indian Ocean).
PEREZ, Rosa Maria –Hinduismo em Goa (II). Deuses clandestinos e devotos fiéis. In CHUDURI, Kirti, ed. FLORES, Jorge, ed..; PEREZ, Rosa Maria, ed. - Culturas do Índico. Oceanos (special issue).
Nº 34 (1998), p.174-180.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Olhar a Índia. In COSTA, José Manuel, ed. - Cinemas da Índia. Lisbon: Museu de Cinema, 1998. p.18-19.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - Introductioj. In PEREZ, Rosa Maria, ed. - A roda de fiar. Lisbon: CNCDP,
1997.p. 8-9 (edição bilingue, em português e inglês).
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - Texto sobre Gandhi. In PEREZ, Rosa Maria, ed. - A roda de fiar. Lisbon:
CNCDP, 1997. p. 22-25 (bilingual, Portuguese and English).
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Apresentação. In PEREZ, Rosa Maria, org. - Memórias árabo-islâmicas em Portugal. Lisbon: CNCDP, D.L., 1997. p. 11.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria; SARDO, Susana – Introduction. In PEREZ, Rosa Maria; et al., org. - Histórias de Goa. Lisbon: M.N.E., 1997. p.13-25.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Hinduísmo e cristianismo em Goa: os limites da casta. In PEREZ, Rosa Maria;
et al., org. - Histórias de Goa. Lisbon: M.N.E., 1997. p. 107-119.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Corpos impuros. Mulheres e intocáveis na Índia. In ALMEIDA, Miguel Vale de, org. - Corpo presente. Treze reflexões antropológicas sobre o corpo. Oeiras: Celta Editora, 1996. p.45-53.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – Prefácio. Os ciganos de Portugal: o exótico cá dentro. In COELHO, Adolfo, - Os Ciganos de Portugal: com um estudo sobre o calão. Lisbon: D.Quixote, 1995. p.13-19.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - The myth of the wild woman. In AMÂNCIO, Lígia, org.; NOGUEIRA, Conceição, org. - Gender, management and science. Braga: Universidade do Minho, 1995. p.57-63.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - Goa: modos de olhar. Oceanos. Nº 19-20 (September-December 1994), p.232- 238.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – A Ásia antes da Europa: uma antropologia do passado. Análise Social.
(December 1993),
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - Reis e intocáveis. In SILVA, J. C. Gomes da, ed. - Assimetria social e inversão.
Teorias, Contextos. Lisbon: IICT, 1993. p. 33-43.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - Lévi-Strauss ou a origem das maneiras de pensar. In LÉVI-STRAUSS, Claude – Histoires de Lynx. Lisbon: Asa, 1992. p. 9-14 (preface approved by Lévi-Strauss for the Portuguese edition).
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - Os jesuítas portugueses e a representação das culturas. Oceanos. Nº12 (November 1992), p. 74-80.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - Sugestões de leitura para um texto de João de Empoli. Prelo. Nº 19 (January- March 1991), p. 36-45.
Dictionaries and Encyclopaedias:
PEREZ, Rosa Maria - Índia portuguesa. In BARRETO, António, org.; MÓNICA, Maria Filomena, org. - Suplemento da história de Portugal .Porto: Figueirinhas, 1999. p
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – AMARAL, Melchior Estácio do. In ALBUQUERQUE, Luís de, dir. - Dicionário de História dos Descobrimentos. Lisbon: Círculo de Leitores, 1994. Vol.I, p. 61.
PEREZ, Rosa Maria – EMPOLI, João de. In ALBUQUERQUE, Luís de, dir. - Dicionário de História
dos Descobrimentos. Lisbon: Círculo de Leitores, 1994. Vol.I, p.365.
Translations:
Giddens, Anthony, 1995, Transformações da Intimidade. Sexualidade, amor e erotismo nas sociedades modernas, Oeiras, Celta;
Lévi-Strauss, Claude, 1992, Histórias do Lince, Lisbon, Asa.
Book reviews
regular collaboration with the week journal Expresso, Books.
Conferences, seminars, workshops:
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2007 (August) “Why should we revisit orientalism? Caste, class and other polarizations”, International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS), Kuala Lumpur;
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2007 (February) “Travel and nostalgia. Women, land and literature in the Goan Migration”, International Seminar on the Imagination of the Indian Migration, Delhi, JNU;
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2007 (March) “Colonized anthropologists in post-colonial contexts. Gujarat and Goa”, invited lecture, Delhi, Indian Institute of Technology (IIT);
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2006 (September) “The fieldworker and the field. Colonized anthropologists in postcolonial contexts (Gujarat and Goa)”, International Conference Culture and Commerce in the Indian Ocean, Leiden, Leiden University and International Institute of Asian Studies;
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2006 (October) “Mapping the India’s Diaspora in Europe. Culture, Society, Policy”, Brussels, European Commission, Expert Panel, Academic Network for European Research on India (Aneri);
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2006 (January), “Anthropology at the Margins. The fieldworker and the field”, seminário de estudos graduados, Goa University, India, Departament of Sociology;
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__________ “The happy empire. Reality and representations of Portuguese colonialism in India”, invited lecture, Goa University, Indi;
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2005 (March)“ Untouchability in India. Policy, representations and social contradictions”, seminário, phD program, Brown University;
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2005 (January), “Hindus e Muçulmanos no Gujrate Actual: Encontros e Desencontros”, Invited
lecture «A Índia e o Islão». Instituto de Estudos Orientais, Universidade Católica, Lisbon;
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2004 (November), “Práticas que o império tece: colonialismo e género na Índia”, invited lecture, FCSH, UNL, Lisbon;
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2004 (April), “The happy empire: desire and reality in Portuguese colonialism in India”, invited lecture, Departament of Sociology, University Jarawahal Nehru, Delhi, Índia;
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2003 (May), “Portuguese readings and misreadings of India”, Portugal Indico, Brown University;
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2003 (May) PEREZ, Rosa Maria e Lina FRUZZETTI, “The gender of the Nation. Allegoric femininity and women’s status in Bengal and Goa”, Narrating the Nation. Gender Perspectives,School of oriental and African Studies, Univeristy of London;
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2003 (Abril), Portuguese Colonialism in India: Imperial Desires and Colonial Contradictions (invited lecture), The John Carter Brown Library, Universidade de Brown, Estados Unidos;
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2003 (March), The Rhetoric of Empire. Portuguese Colonial Discourse on India. (invited lecture), Department of History, Harvard University;
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2003 (February), “Portuguese Colonisation and Decoloniasation in India”, keynote Culture, Colonisation and Decolonisation. French, Portuguese, Spanish and Dutch Perspectives, School of Advanced Study, University of London;
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2002 (August), “Feeding Status. Food and social codification in Goa”, Goa Hindu, Encontros da Arrábida, Fundação Oriente;
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2002 (June-July), “Índia e Hinduísmo. Perspectiva antropológica”, A Presença portuguesa no Oriente, Instituto D. João de Castro, Lisbon;
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2002 (July), Valores Asiáticos e Cultura da Paz, Encontros da Arrábida, Fundação Oriente;
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2002 (April), discussant, Contextualizing Gender in Cross-Cultural Contexts, SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) and UCL (University College of London), University of London;
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2001 (March), “Ambiguous partners. Anthropology and literature from fieldwork to cultural studies”, Departament of Anthropology, Delhi University, India;
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2001 (March), com Lina Fruzetti, “The gender of the Nation. Allegoric femininity and women’s status in Bengal and Goa”, Mirrors of the Empire, Lisbon, ISCTE;
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2001(June), “O Colonialismo português e as contrariedades do género”, Estudos Gerais da Arrábida;
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2001 (September), “ En-gendering the nation. An anthropological perspective on nationalism and
gender”, Departamento de História, Goa University, India;
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2000 (November) “Identidades contraditórias. Colonialismo e Pós-colonialismo em Goa”, invited lecture, Departament of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Brown University;
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1999 (July), “Contradictory devices. Orientalism as a postcolonial identity in Goa”, From Orientalism to Postcolonialism. Towards a debate on Portuguese oriental perspectives, Estudos Gerais da Arrábida, CNCDP/Fundação Oriente;
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1999 (November), “Vasco da Gama na Índia ou o apelo do Lusocentrismo”, Tensões coloniais e reconfigurações pós-colonais. Diálogos Crticos Luso-Brasileiros, Estudos Gerais da Arrábida, CNCDP/Fundação Oriente;
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1999 (December), “Portuguese orientalism. Some problems on sociological classification”, The Portuguese and the Socio Cultural Changes in India (Palai) India , St. Thomas College;
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1998 (September), “Rethinking the Portuguese Conception of Goa”, Goa Through the Centuries. A Symposium, Providence: The John Carter Brown University;
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1998 (November), “Hinduísmo e Islamismo. Parentescos Culturais”, Seminário Universalismo e Ecumenismo, coordenado por Mário Soares, Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional;
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1998 (November), “The Portuguese in India. Caste an identity”, Colóquio Internacional Vasco da Gama’s Arrival to India: 500 years, Institute of Roman Studies, University of London;
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1998 (December), invited lecture with Eduardo Lourenço, Celebrações do Trigésimo Aniversário da Comunidade Islâmica de Lisbon;
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1998 (December), “Cooking status. Food and social stratification in Goa”, IX th International Seminar on Luso-Indian History, Academy of Sciences, Delhi, India;
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1997 (Janeiro), “An Untouchable caste of Gujarat: the contradictions of tradition”, seminário internacional Traditions: transmission or invention? The ressources of history, Institut Français de Pondicherry/ Ecole Française d’Extrême Orient, Pondichery, India;
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1997 (September) “Hinduism and Christianity in Goa (II): Clandestine gods and faithful devotees”, Colóquio internacional The Portuguese and the Cultures of the Indian Ocean, Lisbon, FLAD;
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1995 (Abril), invited lectures, Departament of History, Goa University, India;
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1995 (June), invited lecture on gender and ethnicity in Panorama da Antropologia Portuguesa, Brazilian Anthropological Association, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil;
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1995 (June), invited lecture, “Índia: utopias e realidades do trabalho etnográfico”, Departament of
Anthropology, Universidade Federal de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brasil;
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1995 (September) discussant, Translation and Transmission of Cultures, Estudos Gerais da Arrábida, CNCDP;
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1994 (January), VII Encontro de História Luso-Indiana, Goa, India;
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1994 (June), invited lectures, Cultura e Mudança, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, Lisbon;
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1994 (June), discussant, The Strangers Within, King’s College, London;
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1994 (July), discussant, “Culturas e Modos de Vida”, III Congresso Luso-Afro-Brasileiro, Lisbon, Fundação Gulbenkian;
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1994 (September), South Asian Anthropological Group (SAAG) Conference, London School of Economics
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1994 (November), Introduction ao painel sobre Oriente do Congresso Internacional O Rosto Feminino da Expansão, 1995 (September);
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1993 (March), “Itinerários dos Himalaias: Jesuítas portugueses do século XVII e a representação de culturas”, Instituto Universitario Europeo, Florence;
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1993 (March), “O sistema de castas na Índia: modelos teóricos e realidade social”, Instituto Universitario Europeo, Florence;
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1993 (April), “Métodos e técnicas de trabalho de campo. Uma aldeia do Gujarat”, Mestrado em Antropologia, Lisbon, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, UNL;
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1993 (September), discussant, workshop Asian Perceptions and Counterperceptions, Departament of History and Civilisation, Instituto Universitario Europeo, Florença;
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1993 (November), “Índia e Hinduísmo: uma perspectiva antropológica”, Encontro entre Portugal e a Índia, Lisbon, Palácio Fronteira;
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1988-1989, graduate seminar directed José Carlos Gomes da Silva, Lisbon, ISCTE;
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1987, “Caste and untouchability in a village of Gujarat”, Caste and Ideology, Gujarat Vidyapith - Tribal Research and Training Institute, University of Ahmedabad, India;
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1984, “Doing fieldwork among a caste of untouchables: some issues” (I e II), Gujarat Vidyapith - Tribal Research and Training Institute, University of Ahmedabad, India;
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1983, March-June, India, graduate seminar directed by por Olivier Herrenschmidt, University of Paris X – Nanterre;
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1983, March-May, India, graduate seminar directed by Georges Poushpadas, Centre de l’Inde et
de l’Asie du Sud, Ecole des Hautes Etudues en Sciences Sociales et Humaine, Paris;
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1981-82 e 1982-83 , graduate seminar, Antropologia do Simbólico, directed by José Carlos Gomes da Silva, Lisbon, ISCTE.
Advising
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