Election statement 2017: In 1990, as a junior lecturer at U. Coimbra, I participated enthusiastically in organizing the first EASA conference, subsequently becoming co-editor of EASA Newsletter (1994-1996). Much later, when I became President of the Portuguese Anthropological Association (2006-2009), my main aim was to break frontiers, working to include in the association Portuguese-speaking anthropologists from around the world. Meanwhile, as a researcher, I focused on kinship, personal movement, and territoriality among the indigenous people of Brazil and, more recently, in Timor-Leste (SE Asia). In 2015-2016, I actively re-engaged with EASA as member of the Scientific Committee of the Milan 2016 Conference. Through this experience, I became aware of EASA’s widening membership, realizing the need to break political and linguistic walls, strengthening the inclusive character of EASA, and making anthropology more visible at different educational levels throughout Europe. This sustains my motivation to become a candidate to EASA next Executive Board.
Nominating member: Susana Narotsky (Universitat de Barcelona). Supporting member: João de Pina-Cabral (University of Kent).
Election statement 2015: I am a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon, where I presently hold a tenured position. My work covers different perspectives on personhood, kinship and space, identity and territoriality in Portugal, Brazil and more recently in Timor-Leste. I engaged in different activities promoting anthropology in the public domain, namely as co-editor of EASA Newsletter (1995-1997), President of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology and member of WCAA (2006-2009). I am currently of the founding Board of the International Association of Social Sciences and Humanities (AILPcsh, 2011-2015). I wish to contribute to foster links between EASA and other European associations, while continuing the cooperation with ABA, IUAES, and AAA. My priority is to find strategic ways of facing the new configurations of funding in Europe, as well as addressing the issue of professional precariousness with which younger anthropologists are confronted in present day Europe.
Nominated and supported by Susana Narotzky (University of Barcelona, Spain) and João Pina-Cabral (University of Kent at Canterbury, UK)