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Luiz Gustavo Alves

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Research Interests
Restitutions
Repatriations
African heritage
Museums

Luiz Gustavo Alves is a PhD student in Anthropology at the University of Coimbra, Portugal. He holds a master’s degree in History from the Postgraduate Program in History of the Fluminense Federal University (PPGH/UFF), having defended the dissertation “Liberte Nosso Sagrado”: ​​as disputas de uma reparação histórica” (Free Our Sacred: The Disputes of a Historical Reparation). He holds a bachelor’s degree in History from the Fluminense Federal University. During his bachelor’s degree, he was an academic mobility student for one semester in the History course at the University of Minho in Braga, Portugal. He recently received a scholarship at the Laboratory of Anthropology of the Playful and the Sacred (Ludens) linked to the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum/UFRJ.

Main Publications

Alves, Luiz Gustavo. “From the Black Magic Collection to the Nosso Sagrado Collection: nuances between looting, listing and repair.” Abe África: Revista da Associação Brasileira de Estudos Africanos vol. 8, n. 8, p. 228-261, 2023

Alves, Luiz Gustavo. “The institutionalization of the fight against religious intolerance in Campos dos Goytacazes (RJ)”. Revista Intolerância Religiosa, vol. 3, p. 1-3, 2022.

Alves, Luiz Gustavo. “Views on Afro-religious associations in Campos dos Goytacazes: the brotherhoods, the League and the Forum”. Ars Historica, v. 21, p. 216-236, 2021.

Research Projects

Collections, restitutions and repair: A comparative study between the National Museum (UFRJ) in Brazil and the Science Museum (UC) in Portugal