Institute for Social Sciences – Universidade de Lisboa

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Susana de Matos Viegas is an anthropologist and Research Coordinator (equivalent to Full Professor) at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon. Since 2023, she has been Deputy Director of the Institute of Social Sciences. She completed her PhD (2003) in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Coimbra. She conducted anthropological research and was coordinator of the Demarcation of the Tupinambá Indigenous Land of Olivença (1997-2009), continuing to research and teach on indigenous issues and territorialities in the indigenous Atlantic and Amazon regions. Since 2012, she has been conducting research on ancestors, historicities, landscape, and territorial experiences among the Fataluku in Timor-Leste, with an extensive range of publications on this context. Since February 2022, she has been the Editor-in-Chief of Tipití: Journal of the Society for the Anthropology of Lowland South America, one of the most important international journals in Americanist anthropology on the Lowlands of South America, and since 2024, Team Leader of the ULisboa team of the European Marie-Curie Staff Exchange EDGES Project: Entangling indigenous knowledges in Universities and a member of the Internal Team of the European Chair (ERA Chair) Imagination and Society.

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Timor-Leste

Fataluku

Anthropology

Territorialities

Land

Ancestors

Kinship

Landscapes and the Anthropocene

Indigenous peoples