As ilhas do outro mundo

: entre o visível e o invisível

Abstract

Based on the texts and ethnographic notes written by anthropologist Paulo Valverde during his fieldwork in São Tomé and Príncipe between 1995 and 1999 and posthumously compiled by João de Pinal Cabral in the book Máscara, Mato e Morte: Textos para uma etnografia de São Tomé, “Celta Editora” (2000), this photographic project seeks to capture and understand how, on these islands, the world of the dead coexists alongside the world of the living. Working from a territory that is familiar to me, I propose to reflect on the theme of spirits, spectres, apparitions, belief, fiction and performance on the islands of São Tomé and Príncipe, assuming photography as a means of representation of a spectral nature, which is placed on a privileged level of connection between the notions of life and death, of past and present, of the tangible and the intangible, belonging simultaneously to the realms of the invisible and of the visible.

Date of Award	28 May 2024
Original language	Portuguese
Awarding Institution	Universidade Católica Portuguesa
Supervisor	Carlos Lobo (Supervisor)