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A reception of Eurocentric culture.

Nuno Domingos

OPEN CLASS
NOVEMBER 13TH OF 2024, 6PM
ROOM 30 EP1 – ESAD.CR

Anthropologist and main researcher at ICS-UL, co-editor of the History and Society collection (Ed. 70) and editor of Fora de Jogo, Nuno Domingos will present, on November 13th, an open class in which he will discuss the forms of its reception of Eurocentric culture.
More recently he has been working on the anthropology of food, developing a project on Portuguese wine in the colonial and post-colonial context. He was the main researcher on the project “The Portuguese colonial Empire and urban popular culture: comparative views of the metropolis and colonies” (1945-1974), in which he wrote about the formation of cinematographic audiences in colonial Maputo.

Nuno Domingos (Lisbon, 1976) is principal researcher at ICS-UL. He received a PhD in social anthropology from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London (SOAS), with the thesis Football in Colonial Lourenço Marques, Bodily Practices and Social Rituals (2009). He works on the history of Portuguese colonialism, particularly in Mozambique during the Estado Novo period. During his doctorate, he carried out an urban historical anthropology of the city of Maputo, investigating the dissemination of modern popular culture through sporting practices and consumption. He researched social and cultural policies during the Estado Novo period. In his master’s thesis, he studied the dynamics of Portuguese corporatism under Salazar’s regime based on the case of an opera company based in Lisbon. He wrote about reading practices and the history of sport in Portugal and Mozambique.
More recently he has been working on the anthropology of food, developing a project on Portuguese wine in the colonial and post-colonial context. He was the main researcher on the project “The Portuguese colonial Empire and urban popular culture: comparative views of the metropolis and colonies” (1945-1974), in which he wrote about the formation of cinematographic audiences in colonial Maputo. He is currently coordinator of the PhD in Anthropology at the University of Lisbon. He is co-editor of the History and Society collection (Ed. 70) and the collection of books from the publisher Outro Modo.