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Maria José de Abreu

Columbia University, United States

I am a cultural anthropologist whose work engages with a range of anthropological, philosophical, and literary debates about religion, personhood, the human senses and their technological extensions. In my work, I explore versatile relations between territory, body, and media, not in view of a comprehension of these individual aspects but as a way of focusing on the political worlds such relations enact. I have published a book, series of articles and short essays on linguistic and media communication in the context of authoritarianism in Brazil, the United States and Portugal. I am now working on a new project about new Atlantic imaginaries at sea and onto the land in contemporary (post-2008 financial crisis) Portugal, also in light of the its imperial past.

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