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“Provas de vida”: ensaio visual sobre fotografia da guerra colonial num arquivo digital

13 September, 20218 December, 2021 - by Kevin Soares

New essay by Maria José Lobo Antunes, published in the e-book “Imagens&Arquivos: Fotografia e Filmes”. ICNOVA, 2021.

«Village Portugal» in Africa. Discourses of differentiation and hierarchisation of settlers, 1950s–1974

16 August, 202122 December, 2022 - by Kevin Soares

Cláudia Castelo, new chapter on the book “Rethinking White Societies in Southern Africa 1930s–1990s”. Routledge: 2020

Colonialismo-tardio, pós-colonialismo e cultura popular nos subúrbios de Maputo

2 August, 202119 October, 2021 - by Matheus Pereira

Matheus Serva Pereira publicou o artigo “Colonialismo-tardio, pós-colonialismo e cultura popular nos subúrbios de Maputo: um olhar a partir da marrabenta (1945-1987)” na revista Africana Studia. O artigo integra o dossiê “Culturas populares e urbanas em África”.

“Small Government or Big Government”? Assessing State Expansion in the War for Colonial Brazil

19 July, 202119 October, 2021 - by Kevin Soares

New book chapter by Miguel Dantas Cruz, published in the book “The First World Empire Portugal, War and Military Revolution”. Routledge, 2021.

“Les Portugais ne sont pas racistes”. De l’historicité d’une tradition inventée.

21 June, 202119 October, 2021 - by Kevin Soares

Article by Cláudia Castelo in Carnet de L’EHESS: Perspectives sur l’après – George Floyd, 2021, discusses the complex history of the idea that Portugal is not a racist country and its current echoes, debating the legacy of colonialism. It has a french and an english version.

Quem merece possuir colónias, coleções e conhecimento? História natural em negociação entre Lisboa, Londres e Paris no longo século XIX

14 June, 202119 October, 2021 - by Kevin Soares

Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Reflexos. Revue Pluridisciplinaire du Monde Lusophone. 2021. Quem merece possuir colónias, coleções e conhecimento? História natural em negociação entre Lisboa, Londres e Paris no longo século XIX.

Enslaved remains, scientific racism and the work of counter-history

3 June, 20213 July, 2021 - by admin

Ricardo Roque (2021). in History of Anthropology Review. This essay is one of a series of “Participant Observations” on the removal of the Samuel Morton Cranial Collection from public display and legacies of scientific racism in museums.

An Openness to Experiment: Ruy Duarte de Carvalho’s Anthropological Field Photography in Rural Southern Angola and its Archival Reusages

10 May, 20213 June, 2021 - by ip

Inês Ponte. Kronos: Southern African Histories. 2020. The many lives of Carvalho’s Ovakuvale field photography, since the 1990s, made during the Angolan civil war.

India in Florence: Angelo de Gubernatis and the shaping of Italian Orientalism (1860-1900)

30 April, 202124 May, 2021 - by Matheus Pereira

Filipa Lowndes Vicente, Journal of Modern Italian Studies. 2021. The role of Angelo de Gubernatis and the shaping of Italian Orientalism.

Uncrowned kings: rituals and ritual objects in eighteenth–nineteenth century Portuguese royal acclamation ceremonies

16 April, 202121 February, 2023 - by ip

Isabel Correia e Silva, com Miguel Metelo de Seixas. 2020. European Review of History: Revue Européenne d’Histoire.

The acclamation ceremonies of the Portuguese crown in 18th and 19th centuries as revealing of the quality of the symbolic image of the crown and of structural aspects of their institutional legitimization.

The Portuguese Army in Late-Eighteenth-Century Brazil: A Colonial Elite or a Metropolitan Force?

21 March, 202119 October, 2021 - by ip

Miguel Dantas Cruz, War and Society. 2020. The regular army in the late 18th-century colonial Brazil and its relation with the metropolitan and settler societies.

An Angolan vernacular-language fiction film as para-ethnographic film

15 February, 202115 October, 2022 - by ip

Inês Ponte, History and Anthropology. 2021. The cinematic chain from production to reception of ‘Nelisita’ (1982), an Angolan vernacular-language feature fiction film across popular, film festival and scholarly contexts.

As pedras de Afaloicai: a arqueologia colonial e a autoridade de objetos ancestrais em Timor-Leste

9 July, 202013 April, 2021 - by ip

Ricardo Roque & Lúcio Sousa. 2020. Revista Memória em Rede. Pesquisa de arquivo e trabalho de terreno revelam modos de presença e ausência de conceitos, histórias e memórias indígenas nos registros do arquivo colonial.

‘A crack in everything: Violence in soldiers’ narratives about the Portuguese colonial war in Angola’

7 July, 20209 February, 2021 - by jm

Maria José Lobo Antunes, 2020. History and Anthropology. As narrativas e memórias dos soldados da guerra colonial.

Viver com o sangue que fica:’ The Blood That Remains’, pesquisa sobre uma coleção colonial

20 May, 20208 May, 2021 - by Matheus Pereira

Artigo por Ricardo Roque analisa aspectos da ciência colonial portuguesa e os vestígios do colonialismo português a partir de uma coleção de cartões com milhares de amostras de sangue de populações africanas e asiáticas existente no Museu Nacional de História Natural e da Ciência, em Lisboa.