Susana DORES DE MATOS VIEGAS

Susana de Matos Viegas is an anthropologist, Research Professor at the Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon and Deputy Director of ICS since 2023. She did her PhD in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Coimbra (2003). Her fieldwork research among the indigenous people Tupinambá de Olivença in Brazil included being the coordinator of the anthropological report to demarcate the indigenous land (1997-2009). Her research topics are on personhood, indigenous people's territorialities, ancestry and historicities in the indigenous Atlantic. Since 2012 also among the Fataluku (Timor-Leste). She focuses on the diversity of ways of associating with the land and landscape, currently incorporating the climate crisis and the revitalization of landscapes ruined by tree monocultures, connecting indigenous ways of dealing with the land in Brazil and East Timor with situations in Portugal. Since 2022 she is Editor-in-Chief of Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America. Since 2024 she is also the coordinator of the team from the University of Lisbon in the European Marie-Currie Staff Exchange project Entangling indigenous knowledges in Universities. She is currently a visiting professor (March-May 2025) at the Faculty of Humanities, Ca Foscari University, Venice, where she teaches the course Ehnology - "Indigenous Territorialities and the Regeneration of Life".

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