[Open Seminar] Eating, Drinking and Praying: Social aspects, concepts and definitions of culture

Open Seminar: Religions and Food

MA in Food: Sources, Culture and Society

Brief biography of the speaker

PhD in Anthropology from the University of Salamanca, with a diploma in Advanced Studies in Anthropology from the same university. Bachelor's degree in History and Master's degree in Insular and Atlantic History from the University of the Azores, specialising in Heritage, Museology and Development from the same university, and a bachelor's degree in Museology from Uniasselvi.

Visiting professor in the Doctorate in Anthropology programme at the University of Salamanca and the Master's in Insular and Atlantic History programme at the University of the Azores. Coordinator of the Postdoctoral programme at the Historical and Geographical Institute of Santa Catarina.

He is an emeritus member of the Historical and Geographical Institute of Santa Catarina and an honorary member of the Santa Catarina Association of Conservators and Restorers of Cultural Property, President of the State Council for Culture (2023-2025), and President of the Ibero-American Society of Applied Anthropology (SIAA).

Promotes and coordinates academic conferences since 2008; XXIV International Congress of Ibero-American Anthropology (Azores - 2019), XXVI International Congress of Ibero-American Anthropology: Territories, Migrations and Borders (Fundão-PT 2022), II International Congress on Judaism and Interculturality (Penamacor 2023), XXVII International Congress of Ibero-American Anthropology (Leiria 2023) and the XXVIII International Congress of Ibero-American Anthropology (Salto Veloso - SC - Brazil).

He also has several works and articles published in Portugal, Brazil and Spain, including Anthropology and the Concepts and Definitions of Culture, Culture in 250 Concepts and Definitions, Azoreans in São Domingos: the Saga of Azorean migrants in the Dominican Republic in 1940, Ethnographic Research: and the Feasts of the Holy Spirit of the Azores,
Scientific Methodology for Academic Works and Scientific Articles.