{"id":2986,"date":"2018-01-11T19:20:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-11T19:20:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/?p=2986"},"modified":"2021-03-05T11:47:51","modified_gmt":"2021-03-05T11:47:51","slug":"clara-saraiva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/research-team\/full-members\/clara-saraiva\/","title":{"rendered":"Clara Saraiva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Researcher<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><strong>E-mail:<\/strong> <a href=\"mailto:maria-saraiva@campus.ul.pt\">maria-saraiva@campus.ul.pt<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biographical note<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Clara Saraiva is a social and cultural anthropologist, senior research fellow at the Centre for Comparative Studies (CEC), University of Lisbon, where she coordinates the\u00a0research\u00a0group\u00a0CITCOM \u2013 Citizenship, Critical Cosmopolitanism, Modernity\/ies, (Post)Colonialism. . She was a Visiting\u00a0 Professor at University of California Berkeley (2013); Brown University (2001-02 and 2008) and a Research Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University (2001-2002 and 2008).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Specialized in the field of Anthropology of Religion and Ritual, she has researched the conceptions of death and funeral rituals in various contexts. He directed the FCT financed\u00a0 project \u201cThe invisibility of death among the migrant populations in Portugal\u201d. Since 2004 he has been working on religious transnationalism and the expansion of Afro-Brazilian religions in Portugal, with field work in Portugal and Brazil. She was PI of the Portuguese team of the European project HERA \u201cHERILIGION: The heritagization of religion and the sacralization of heritage in contemporary Europe\u201d. She has published widely in various international journals and publishers (as Brill and Berghahn) on the subject of death, migrations, religions and transnational therapies.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">She was (2013-2017) the vice-president of the Society for International Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF), and is currently President of the Association of Portuguese Anthropology (APA),\u00a0 and a\u00a0 board member of the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA).<\/p>\n<p>Research main areas<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Anthropology of Religion and Ritual;<\/li>\n<li>Migrations, circulation of people;<\/li>\n<li>Religious transnationalism and heritage;<\/li>\n<li>Anthropology of health and emotions;<\/li>\n<li>Africa and Brazil: colonialism and post-colonialism.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recent publications<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SARAIVA, Clara 2020 \u201cOur Lady of Fatima in Brazil, and Iemanj\u00e1 in Portugal. Afro-Brazilian Religions across the Atlantic\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<em>Atlantic perspectives. Places, Spiritis, and heritage\u00a0<\/em>eds. Ramon Sarr\u00f3, Ruy Blanes &amp; Markus Balkenhol, New York, Oxford,\u00a0 Berghahn<strong>.\u00a0<\/strong>ISBN<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>978-1-78920-483-4\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">ISBN 978-3-643-91110-0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">SARAIVA, Clara, Havik. Jos\u00e9 e MAPRIL, Jos\u00e9 (eds)\u00a0 2018\u00a0<em>Death on the Move. Managing Narratives, Silences and constraints in a Transnational perspective<\/em>, London, Cambridge Scholars Publishing.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">SARAIVA, Clara, FRANGELLA, Simone e RODRIGUES, Irene (orgs)\u00a0 2017\u00a0<em>Movimentos, Esp\u00edritos e Rituais. Gest\u00f5es da Morte em\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Cen\u00e1rios Transnacionais<\/em>, Lisboa, Imprensa de Ci\u00eancias Sociais.SARAIVA, Clara 2019 \u201cAncestors and death: from west Africa to Southwest Europe\u201d,\u00a0\u00a0Death Across Cultures,\u00a0 (Science Across Cultures: The History of Non-Western Science\u00a0Series) eds. Helaine Selin , Robert M. Rakoff, Switzerland AG, Springer Nature.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">SARAIVA, Clara, ROUSSOU, Eugenia and POVEDAK, Istvan (eds.) 2019\u00a0\u00a0<em>Expressions of Religion. Ethnography, performance and the Senses<\/em>, Berlin, Lit-Verlag.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\">\n<p>SARAIVA, Clara, MARGRY, Peter Jan, POVEDAK, Kinga, OBADIA, Lionel e MAPRIL,Jos\u00e9 (orgs) 2016 <em>Experiencing religion: new approaches towards personal religiosity<\/em>, Berlin, Lit-Verlag.<\/li>\n<li>SARAIVA, Clara 2016 \u201c<em>Orix\u00e1s<\/em> across the Atlantic. The diaspora of Afro-Brazilian Religions in Europe\u201d <em>The Handbook of Contemporary Brazilian Religions in Brazil<\/em>, ed. by Bettina Schmidt and Stephen Engler, London, Brill.<\/li>\n<li>SARAIVA, Clara. 2016. &#8220;Circulating spirits and dead bodies: Funerary transnationalism among immigrants from Guinea Bissau in Portugal&#8221;.\u00a0 <em>African Diaspora<\/em>\u00a0 9 (1\/2):1-16.<\/li>\n<li>SARAIVA, Clara e MAPRIL, Jos\u00e9 2014 \u201cScenarios of death in contexts of mobility: Guineans and Bangladeshi in Lisbon in Ricarda Vidal and Maria Jos\u00e9 Blanco , (eds.) <em>The Carnival of Death, <\/em>Oxford, Berhghan Books.<\/li>\n<li>SARAIVA, Clara 2013 \u201c<em>Pretos-velhos<\/em> across the Atlantic\u2014Afro-Brazilian cults in Portugal\u201d, in Manuel Vasquez e Cristina Rocha (eds.) <em>The diaspora of Brazilian Religions<\/em>. London, Brill, pp 197-222.<\/li>\n<li>SARAIVA, Clara 2013 \u201cBlood, sacrifices and religious freedom: Afro-Brazilian associations in Portugal\u201d in Jos\u00e9 Mapril , Ruy Blanes (eds.) <em>Sites and Politics of Religious Diversity in Southern Europe. The Best of all Gods, <\/em>International Studies in Religion and Society series, Leiden, Brill , pp 129-154.<\/li>\n<li>SARAIVA, Clara; MAPRIL, Jos\u00e9 2012 \u00ab\u00a0Le lieu de la \u00ab\u00a0bonne mort\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 pour les migrants guin\u00e9ens et bangladais au Portugal\u00a0\u00bb, <em>Revue Europe\u00e9ne des migrations internationales<\/em> (REMI) 28 (3)\u00a0: 51-70.<\/li>\n<li>SARAIVA, Clara 2008 \u201cTransnational Migrants and Transnational Spirits: An African religion in Lisbon\u201d, <em>Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies<\/em>, Special issue ed. Grillo, R.; Mazzucato, V. 34 (2) March 2008: 253-270.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some publications are available in <a href=\"http:\/\/repositorio.ul.pt\/browse?type=author&amp;value=Saraiva%2C+Clara\">the repository of the University of Lisbon<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/research-groups\/citcom\/citizenship-migration-heritage-and-cosmopolitanism\/\">Citizenship, Migration, Heritage and Cosmopolitanism \/ CITCOM<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/research-groups\/funded-projects\/heriligion-the-heritagization-of-religion-and-the-sacralization-of-heritage-in-contemporary-europe\/\">HERILIGION: The Heritagization of Religion and the Sacralization of Heritage in Contemporary Europe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior Researcher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[61],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2986"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6925,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2986\/revisions\/6925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cec.letras.ulisboa.pt\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}