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Imagem de Maria Cardeira da Silva, autora do ensaio «Património à solta»
Maria Cardeira da Silva
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She is an anthropologist and is particularly interested in the Anthropology of Heritage and Tourism, Islam and gender patterns.
She is an associate professor at the Nova School of Social and Human Sciences in Lisbon and a researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA).
She did fieldwork in Morocco, Mauritania and southern Portugal, with shorter incursions in Brazil and Senegal.
She coordinated several national and international research projects in the areas of heritage and its intersection with tourism, organised exhibitions and supervised a number of theses.
She has published several articles and books, including «Castles on the Port Side: Ethnographies of African Heritage and Portuguese Memories».

Last updated: December 2023
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