Personal trajectories in (audio)visual anthropology in Brazil

He is a CNPQ productivity scholarship holder (PQ2). He has a degree in Social Sciences (Bachelor's Degree) from UFC (1994), a Master's Degree in Sociology from UFC (1999), a PhD in Sociology from UFC (2005) and a Post-Doctorate in Cultural Studies in the Advanced Program in Contemporary Culture at UFRJ (2011). He is currently an Associate Professor at Universidade Estadual Vale do Acaraú, Associate Researcher of the Post-Doctorate in Cultural Studies of the Advanced Program in Contemporary Culture at UFRJ, a permanent professor of the Postgraduate Program in Geography at UECE, is part of the permanent staff of the Professional Master's Degree in Sociology Teaching Network at UVA and was a permanent professor of the Academic Master's Degree in Geography between 2014 and 2019 at UVA. He coordinates the Laboratory of Memories and Everyday Practices - Labome.

Full Professor at the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel) linked to the Bachelor's and Postgraduate Programs in Anthropology. She holds a degree in History and a Master's degree in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul; a PhD in Social Anthropology and Ethnology from the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales; and a postdoctoral degree from the Institut d’Ethnologie Mediterranéenne et Contemporaine (IDEMEC). She coordinates the Laboratory for Teaching, Research, and Production in Anthropology of Image and Sound (LEPPAIS/UFPel) and the Anthropoetics Collective (CNPq). She was a member of the ABA board of directors (2017-2018), of which she has been a member since 1994; and chaired its Pierre Verger Award (2015-2016). Member of the Commission for Qualification of Artistic-Cultural Products/Visual Ethnographies of CAPES - Anthropology and Archaeology area (2013 and 2021).

Professor, researcher, audiovisual director and photographer, he holds a PhD and a Master's degree in Communication (UFPE), with an emphasis on Indigenous Cinema and Documentary, and a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences (UFC), with an emphasis on Visual Anthropology and Indigenous Ethnology. He has experience in the areas of cinema and audiovisual, documentary, photography, visual anthropology, ethnography and ethnology. He is a member of the Research Group “Contemporary Images” (PPGCOM/UFPE), of the International Network for Cooperation in Arts, Education and Humanities (RedArtH - Portugal), of the Organizing Committees of the extension projects IX International Ethnographic Film Festival of Recife (UFPE) and X Visualidades (UVA - Sobral/CE). Associate of the Brazilian Society for Cinema and Audiovisual Studies (Socine), of the Association of Image and Movement Researchers (AIM - Portugal) and of the Association for Documentary (Apordoc - Portugal). He was a co-founder of the Image Anthropology Laboratory - LAI/UFC (2005) and a founding partner of the Photography Institute - IFOTO (Fortaleza, 2005).
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Permanent professor of the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology at the Federal University of Pelotas (PPGAnt- UFPel). Deputy coordinator of the Laboratory of Teaching, Research and Production in Anthropology of Image and Sound (LEPPAIS- UFPel). PhD in Anthropology from the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology at UFPel (2024); PhD (2019) and Master (2014) in Social Memory and Cultural Heritage from the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel). She completed a Postdoctoral degree in Anthropology through the Support Program for the Retention of Young Doctors - Fapergs/CNPq, (2023-2024). Currently, she is a postdoctoral intern with a scholarship from the Institutional Postdoctoral Program (PIPD-CAPES) in the Postgraduate Program in Social Memory and Cultural Heritage (PPGMSPC- UFPel) (2025-). She is a member of the Visual Anthropology Committee of the Brazilian Anthropology Association (2025-2026), and was a member in the management (2023/2024). She is a member of the organizing committee of the Pierre Verger Award (2025-2026) and participated in the managements of (2021-2022) and (2023-2024). She was coordinator of the Anthropoetics GT at the Latin American Anthropology Association (ALA 2021-2024). She completed a postdoctoral fellowship in Anthropology through the Support Program for the Retention of Young Doctors - Fapergs/CNPq, (2023-2024).

PhD in Anthropology (Columbia) with a postdoctorate in History (Yale), she is a collaborating professor in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology and the Graduate Program in Social Sciences, and also deputy coordinator of the Center for Studies on International Migration (CEMI/IFCH), all at UNICAMP. She is also a Senior Researcher at CNPq. She held the Chairs of Portuguese Studies (1987-1991) and Hélio and Amélia Pedrosa (2008) at the University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth and the UNESCO/Memorial of Latin America Chair (2015). She currently represents the Brazilian Society for the Advancement of Science (SBPC) on the National Council for Immigration (CNIg), and is a member of the Steering Committees of the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCCA) and the World Anthropological Union (WAU).

He is currently a professor in the Cinema and Audiovisual course at the State University of Montes Claros (Unimontes), where he is also completing his second post-doctorate internship linked to the "Interdisciplinary Center for Socio-Environmental Research" (NIISA/PPGDS), acting as a collaborating professor.

Graduated in Philosophy from the Faculty of Philosophy, Sciences and Letters (1975), with a Master's in Ethnology - University of Paris X, (Nanterre) in 1982, with a dissertation on the Notion of Ethnic Identity in Brazilian Anthropology, under the guidance of Professors Dr. Julian Pitt-Rivers and Patrick Menget. He received his PhD in Ethnology from the same university (1995) with a thesis on hierarchical relations between the peoples of the Rio Negro, focusing specifically on the relationship between the Hupdah and the Tukano, under the guidance of Prof. Julian Pitt-Rivers and later by Prof. Jacques Galinier. He works as coordinator of the Center for Studies and Research on Ethnicity (NEPE) at UFPE and is Associate Professor II of the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology at UFPE. He is also a professor of the Interuniversity Master's in Ibero-American Anthropology at the University of Salamanca, in Spain. He is a member of the Visual Anthropology Laboratory of the Image and Sound & Human Sciences Center at UFPE. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Pernambuco State Museum. He is currently the vice coordinator of the Commission for Museums and Cultural Heritage of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES).

PhD student in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Master in Social Anthropology from UFRGS (2025). Bachelor in Anthropology from the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel, 2022). Participant of the Research Group "Genres, Images and Policies" (CNPq/UFRGS), of the Center for Visual Anthropology (NAVISUAL/UFRGS), of the Laboratory for Teaching, Research and Production in Anthropology of Image and Sound (LEPPAIS/UFPel) and of the research collective Anthropoetics (CNPq/UFPel).

Bachelor's Degree in History (1981) and Degree in History from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (1980), Master's Degree PPGAS IFCH UFRGS (1985), PhD in Social Anthropology - Paris V - Sorbonne, Université Renne Descartes (1991). Postdoctoral program in Sound and Visual Anthropology, Paris VII (2001); postdoctoral program at the Institute for Latin American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, Germany in 2013 and postdoctoral program at Georgia University, USA, 2018. Retired Full Professor and currently guest professor of the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. Coordinator of BIEV (portal www.biev.ufrgs.br) and of the Visual Anthropology Center (NAVISUAL). She is a researcher at NUPECS (PPGAS UFRGS) and CEPED (UFRGS). She edits the Electronic Magazine Iluminuras, the magazine Fotocronografia and participates in the Editorial Committee of the Magazine Horizontes Antropológicos.

She holds a degree in Social Work from the UNINTA University Center (2014), a degree in Social Sciences from the Vale do Acaraú State University (2007) and a specialization in History of Ceará from the Vale do Acaraú State University (2011). She is currently an Archivist Technician at the Vale do Acaraú State University. She has experience in the area of ​​Anthropology, with an emphasis on Urban Anthropology.

PhD student in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte/UFRN. MASTER in Cultural Geography from the Master's Program in Geography-MAG, from the Vale do Acaraú State University-UVA. SPECIALIZATION IN MANAGEMENT OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATIONS in 2011 from the VALE DO ACARAÚ STATE UNIVERSITY-UVA. Graduated in BACHELOR'S DEGREE in SOCIAL SCIENCES in 2009 from the VALE DO ACARAÚ STATE UNIVERSITY-UVA. Graduated in BACHELOR'S DEGREE in SOCIAL SCIENCES in 2011 from the VALE DO ACARAÚ STATE UNIVERSITY-UVA.

He holds a degree in Anthropology from the National University of La Plata (1991), a master's degree in Anthropology from the University of Brasília (1995) and a PhD in Anthropology from the University of Brasília (2000). He is part of the Postgraduate Program at the Federal University of Goiás, and is an associate professor at the Federal University of Goiás. He has experience in the area of ​​Anthropology, focusing on political Anthropology, working mainly on the following themes: Visual Anthropology, indigenous ethnology, Anthropology and ethnography, rituals and performances.

Associate Professor IV of the Department of Social Sciences of the Federal University of Ceará - UFC, where he works in the area of ​​Anthropology. Permanent Professor of the Associated Postgraduate Program in Anthropology UFC-UNILAB. Collaborating Professor of the Postgraduate Program in Sociology of UFC. Professor of the Intercultural Indigenous Degrees Pitakajá and Kuaba - UFC. Coordinator of the Anthropology and Image Laboratory - LAI/UFC. Graduated in Social Sciences (UFC, Bachelor's degree, 1994; Bachelor's degree, 1996). Specialist in Health, Work and Environment for Sustainable Development (UFC, 1999). Master in Sociology (UFC, 2002). PhD in Sociology (UFC, 2008).

PhD student in Anthropology at the Federal University of Pelotas (PPGant/Ufpel). She holds a master's and a degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology from the same University, with a sandwich period at the Universidad Autonoma del Estado de México (UAEMEX), funded by the Brazil-Mexico Student Exchange Program (2021).

Graduated in Communication from the Universidad Tecnológica de Pereira - UTP (Colombia). Master in Social Anthropology from the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte - PPGAS/UFRN (Brazil).

She holds a degree in Social Sciences and Journalism, a PhD in Sociology and Anthropology from the Université Paris Descartes-Sorbonne (1992), under the supervision of Louis-Vincent Thomas, and a master's degree from UFRGS, under the supervision of Claudia Fonseca. She is a Full Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UFSC (1982), and works in the Interdisciplinary Doctorate in Human Sciences, having coordinated it twice. She participated in the creation of the magazines Ilha, Vibrant, Novos Debates and TV ABA, is an associate editor responsible for Human Sciences at the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences and international editor of ViBrAnt. She coordinates the Institute for Studies of Brazilian Football, is a member of the Institute for Gender Studies (IEG) and coordinates the Center for Audiovisual Anthropology and Image Studies (Navi) and the Urban and Maritime Anthropology Group. He is currently a member of the Advisory Board of the Wenner Gren Foundation, the Anthropen Dictionary, and the Open Anthropology Research Repository of the American Anthropological Association.

Full Professor of Anthropology at the Department of Cultural Anthropology of IFCS-UFRJ and at the Postgraduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology of UFRJ (1984 to present). Researcher at CNPq, Productivity in Research since 1998. Scientist of Our State (FAPERJ). Master and PhD in Social Anthropology from the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology of the Museu Nacional-UFRJ, supervised by Eduardo Viveiros de Castro (1984-1995). Works in the areas of research on Visual Anthropology, Anthropology and Cinema, Cosmology, Creation of Cultural Worlds, Indigenous Ethnology, Narratives and Subjectivities. Postdoctoral studies at the University of St. Andrews (Scotland) (1996-1997), supervised by Joanna Overing. He was a Visiting Scholar Senior, Capes Grant, at New York University (2015-2016), supervised by Faye Ginsburg. He did a Senior Internship - CNPq Grant, New York University (5 months - 2018), supervised by Faye Ginsburg. He was a visiting professor: Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (Belgium) (1998, 2005), Complutense University of Madrid (2000), Guest Researcher at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris (2006, 2010, 2011) collaborating with Carlo Severi, Phillipe Descola and Anne-Christine Taylor. He did a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Sorbonne Letttres, Paris between 2021-2022. Guest Researcher at the University of Nanterre, EREA-LESC, Paris, 2024 (January and February). He was part of the image WG of the Brazilian Anthropology Association 2006-2008, 2008-2010.

Graduated in Geography - Bachelor's degree - from the Federal University of Ceará (UFC) - Pici Campus. Master's degree in Geography from the Postgraduate Program in Geography at the State University of Ceará (PropGeo/UECE).

Collaborating Researcher at the Department of Anthropology (IFCH-Unicamp) since 2011, where she remains to the present, linked to the Postgraduate Programs in Social Anthropology (PPGAS) and the Doctoral Program in Social Sciences (IFCH-UNICAMP). She is a postdoctoral researcher in Anthropology at PPGAS-FFCLH-USP, supervised by Prof. Dr. Sylvia Caiuby Novaes (2024-2025) and funded by CNPq, on the theme From the ruins of family photo albums to the biomes of orphan archives. Master's and PhD in Multimedia from the Institute of Arts of the State University of Campinas - Unicamp (2003/2009). Her thesis entitled Photobiography: For a Methodology of Aesthetics in Anthropology, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Etienne Samain, was awarded the Capes Award for Best Doctoral Thesis (CAPES-2010). She holds a Post-Doctorate in Social Anthropology (IFCH-Unicamp/CAPES; 2013-2016) and a degree from the School of Communications and Arts (ECA-USP/FAPESP; 2011-2013). She is co-founder and deputy coordinator and participating researcher at LAGRIMA - Anthropological Laboratory of Writing and Image DA/IFCH-Unicamp (together with Prof. Dr. Suely Kofes). She coordinates the Visual Anthropology Committee (CAV) of the ABA (Brazilian Anthropology Association) for the 2023-2024 term and is a member of the Pierre Verger Award Committee (2022-2024).

Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and in the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). She holds a PhD in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, a Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences (2002) and a Master's degree in Social Anthropology (2004) from the same university. At UFSC, she works as a researcher at the Collective for Studies in Environments, Perceptions and Practices (CANOA) and the Group for Studies in Orality and Performance (GESTO). She is an Affiliate Scholar at the SEACoast Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC).

PhD in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (2007). He is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) and Professor in the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology/UFSC. Researcher at the CNPq Research Group Collective of Studies in Environments, Perceptions and Practices - CANOA/UFSC. Researcher at INCT CNPq Brasil Plural. Collaborator at the SEACoast Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC). Research productivity scholarship 2 at CNPq. Coordinator of the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology/UFSC 2024/2026.

Master's student in Anthropology from the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology at the Federal University of Paraíba – Department of Social Sciences – CCAE/CCHLA. He holds a degree in Anthropology from the same University – Campus IV of UFPB, Litoral Norte, Rio Tinto –, with a specialization in Visual Anthropology.

Anthropologist, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Education of Baixada Fluminense (FEBF - Pedagogy, Department of Teacher Training/UERJ) and the Postgraduate Program in Cultures and Territoriality (UFF). Researcher at the Center for Afro-Brazilian Studies (NEAB/UERJ), coordinator of the Afrodigital Museum Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) and the Laboratory of Artistic Experiments and Creative Reflections on Cities, Health and Education (LEARCC). She has experience in the areas of Anthropology and Research Methodology and works on the following themes: Cinema and City, Black Cinema, Public Policies, Ethnic-racial Relations and Afro-Brazilian Education and Culture.

Bachelor in Anthropology from the Fluminense Federal University (2020).

Graduated in Intercultural Training for Indigenous Educators from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2013). Master in Social Anthropology from the Federal University of Minas Gerais (2019). Has a free practice in the area of ​​Ethnophotography: a means of recording aspects of culture - the life of a people? In his lens, photography becomes a new “tool” of struggle, allowing the “other” to see with another perspective what an indigenous people is. Working mainly in the following themes: culture, ethnology, indigenous cinema, indigenous movement, indigenous education and indigenous peoples.

Transvestite professor at the Department of Anthropology and the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at UFRGS, where she is a member of the Center for Anthropology and Citizenship and the Center for Visual Anthropology, of which she was co-coordinator. She also co-coordinates the Group for the Recognition of Artistic/Audiovisual Universes at UFRJ, in addition to being a researcher at several other research groups at the University of São Paulo (USP), such as the Visual Anthropology Group (GRAVI), the Center for Anthropology, Performance and Drama (NAPEDRA), the Center for Studies on Social Markers of Difference (NUMAS) and the Research Center for Musical Anthropology (PAM). In 2022, she was a visiting professor at the Department of Social Psychology and Social Anthropology at the Complutense University of Madrid (UCM) and the Networked Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) in Lisbon. She holds a PhD from USP, with a sandwich period with Professor Amelia Jones in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University. She also holds a postdoctoral degree from USP, in addition to having a degree in cinema from the International Academy of Cinema. She was also president of the Pierre Verger Award (2021-2022) of the ABA, coordinated the Image and Sound Commission of the National Association of Graduate Studies and Research in Social Sciences (ANPOCS), in the 2022-2023 biennium, and is a member of the Commission on Visual Anthropology of the International Union of the Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES).

He is pursuing a PhD in Geography at the State University of Ceará (UECE). He has a degree in Social Communication / Journalism from the Federal University of Ceará UFC (2007), a degree in History - Full Degree from the State University of Ceará Uece (2004) and a second degree in Geography from the Estácio do Ceará College. He has a degree in Telecommunications from the Federal Center for Technological Education of Ceará (CEFET-CE, now IFCE). He is a specialist in Higher Education Teaching. He has a Master's degree in Geography from the Vale do Acaraú State University UVA (2019), where he developed research on territories of violence in Sobral-CE with a scholarship from the Ceará Foundation for the Support of Scientific and Technological Development - FUNCAP.

Assistant Professor at the Vale do Acaraú State University, in the area of ​​Anthropological Theory. PhD and Master in Anthropology from the Postgraduate Program in Anthropology at the Federal University of Pernambuco - UFPE. Psychologist (bachelor's degree in Psychology) and Bachelor's degree in Social Sciences. She is a professor of the Professional Master's Degree in Sociology in the National Network (PROFSOCIO).

PhD student in Social Anthropology of the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at UFRGS, master in Anthropology and graduated in Social Sciences from the same university.

Master in Social Anthropology from the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS). Graduated in Social Sciences from the same university.

Full Professor at the Federal University of Ceará and Coordinator of the Center for Studies in Visual Anthropology, Gender and Orality (LEO). At UFC, he completed his bachelor's degree (with a concentration in Anthropology), master's degree and doctorate. Working exclusively in the area of ​​Anthropology, he taught for 10 years at the Vale do Acaraú State University (Sobral-CE). In 2006, he passed the competition to become an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UFC. After some forays into the religious field (body and trance religions, bachelor's thesis), he focused his interest on issues related to corporeality, gender, sexuality and urban and visual Anthropology. In his master's degree, he concluded his dissertation with a paper on pornographic cinemas in downtown Fortaleza, addressing aspects related to the transgender experience, (homo)territorialities and the pornography market. In his doctorate, he continued working on the transgender experience, now considered in relation to migration processes. To this end, he spent two years as a PhD student at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences and the Laboratory of Social Anthropology in Paris. He is currently part of the team of the Chief Scientist of Culture Program of the Secretariat of Culture of Ceará (Secult), the Secretariat of Science, Technology and Higher Education (Secitece) and the Ceará Foundation for the Support of Scientific and Technological Development (Funcap).

Dance and anthropology researcher, with work developed in the areas of dance anthropology, body anthropology, corporeality, body studies, intangible cultural heritage, popular manifestations and folklore. Professor of the Dance Degree Course at the University of Caxias do Sul (UCS) and Art teacher (elementary school) in the city of Caxias do Sul. PhD student in Anthropology at UFPel, Master in Anthropology (2016), Specialist in Arts, with an emphasis on Cultural Heritage (2012) from the Federal University of Pelotas and Bachelor in Dance (2023) from the University of Caxias do Sul.

PhD in Social Sciences (Anthropology) and Master in Multimedia Educational Communication from Universidade Aberta. Graduated in Philosophy from the University of Porto. He completed Higher Studies in Cinema and Video at the Escola Superior Artística do Porto.