Cristiana Bastos
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View article: Sweetness and exile: Madeiran sugar connections in motion
Sweetness and exile: Madeiran sugar connections in motion Open
Madeira is often referred to as the birthplace of the modern plantation. In the fifteenth century, this newly settled North Atlantic subtropical island was the locus of a turning point in the economics, technology and social engineering of…
View article: Introduction to Special Collection: Plant-Anthropo-Genesis: The Co-Production of Plant–People Lifeworlds
Introduction to Special Collection: Plant-Anthropo-Genesis: The Co-Production of Plant–People Lifeworlds Open
Ethnobiology has long recognized that human and plant relationships produce particular ways of living. The discipline is increasingly asking how these lifeworlds reflect and create sociopolitical formations—from low-impact hunting–gatherin…
View article: Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai‘i
Plant-people Intimacies: Sugar Canes, Pineapples and the Memory of Migration in Hawai‘i Open
In this article, I use the concept of ‘plant-people intimacies’ for the social-mediated web of cognitions, rituals, affects and embodied memories that connect some human groups and some plant species. I test the concept in the transformed …
View article: The Never-Ending Poxes of Syphilis, AIDS, and Measles
The Never-Ending Poxes of Syphilis, AIDS, and Measles Open
In this article, I address some infectious diseases that never really “ended,” even though their morbidity, their social impact, and their public visibility have faded away: AIDS, syphilis, and measles. I will use data from different proje…
View article: Mobile labour: an introduction
Mobile labour: an introduction Open
Taken together, the various articles that make up this special issue offer a variety of analyses in different social, cultural, material, political, economic, and historical settings from which to understand how discrimination, and segrega…
View article: Intersections of Empire, Post-Empire, and Diaspora: De-Imperializing Lusophone Studies
Intersections of Empire, Post-Empire, and Diaspora: De-Imperializing Lusophone Studies Open
The present article opens with a generic plea for the de-imperialization of Lusophone studies. A de-imperial turn should allow researchers to explore more thoroughly the experiences of diaspora and exile that an empire-centered history and…
View article: Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage
Plantation Memories, Labor Identities, and the Celebration of Heritage Open
Plantation museums and memorials play different roles in coming to terms with a past of racialized violence. In this article, I briefly review the academic literature on plantations, refer to the plantation–race nexus, address the critical…
View article: Luso-tropicalism debunked, again. Race, racism, and racialism in three Portuguese-speaking societies
Luso-tropicalism debunked, again. Race, racism, and racialism in three Portuguese-speaking societies Open
The term Luso-tropicalism was crafted in the 1950s by the Brazilian anthropologist and cultural historian Gilberto Freyre. In his earlier works on colonial Brazil, Freyre suggested that the Portuguese colonizers had a special ability to ad…
View article: Portugal, Anthropology in
Portugal, Anthropology in Open
Portuguese anthropology had its beginnings with the work of late nineteenth‐century folklorists, ethnographers, linguists, archaeologists, and physical anthropologists, in tune with international debates and in parallel with their European…
View article: Migrants, inequalities and social research in the 1920s: The story of<i>Two Portuguese Communities in New England</i>
Migrants, inequalities and social research in the 1920s: The story of<i>Two Portuguese Communities in New England</i> Open
Bastos C. (2017). Migrants, inequalities and social research in the 1920s: The story of Two Portuguese Communities in New England, History and Anthropology 29 (2), 163-18
View article: From sulphur to perfume: spa and SPA at Monchique, Algarve
From sulphur to perfume: spa and SPA at Monchique, Algarve Open
In the thermal village of Monchique, Algarve, different streams of water-related knowledge and practices coexisted for centuries. Those waters were traditionally known as águas santas (holy waters) and believed to have redemptive healing p…