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Jorge Costa Freitas Branco
Office D2.25
Locker 25
Telephone 217650354
Research Fields
Material Culture Studies
Popular cultures
Collecting Cultures
Marginal anthropologies
Secularism as culture
Science and Technology Studies
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Pratices and Politics of Culture Group
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Jorge Freitas Branco. Professor of anthropology at ISCTE University Institute of Lisbon. Senior researcher at CRIA-IUL. He received his PhD from Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz, Germany, taught at Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife (1992) and at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (2010), and was visiting professor at the universities Leipzig (1996-97), Marburg (2000) and Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (2010), in Recife, Brazil. Carried out field research in Portugal, Atlantic islands (the Madeiras), Germany, Brazil, France, resulting in publications on: materialities, technology, popular cultures, history of anthropology, museums and collections, secularism.
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