Renato Athias Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) Member-at-Large of the SALSA Board 2014-2017 Renato Athias is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Museology and Coordinator of the Center of Ethnicities Studies (NEPE) at the Federal University of Pernambuco in Recife. His research interests include shamanism, ethnicity, museology,...
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Curt Nimuendajú’s Photographic Legacy of the Indians of the Rio Negro in 1927 Renato Athias, curator, 2013 This set of 17 images from Nimuendajú’s Photographic Legacy is part of a larger collection which is held in the Ethnographic Collection Carlos Estevão de Oliveira of the State Museum of Pernambuco. This...
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500 Anos: A Outra História Renato Athias, 2012. 500 Anos – A Outra História presents the national meeting of the Indigenous people in Brazil during the celebration of the five hundred years of the European invasion. Director/Author: Renato Athias Producer: e Laboratory of Visual Anthropology (LAV) of Federal University...
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Menino no rancho: Festa, cura e iniciação entre os Pankararu Renato Athias, 2012 This video presents a ritual among the Pankararu Indians of Pernambuco Brazil. Length: 00:22:00. About the author Renato Athias is a Doctor in ethnology (1995) from the University of Paris 10, is the Coordinator of the Centre for Studies and...
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