Curriculum Vitae
MARIA MANUELA DE CASTRO RESTIVO
Identification
Personal identification
- Full name
- MARIA MANUELA DE CASTRO RESTIVO
Citation names
- Restivo, Maria Manuela
Author identifiers
- Ciência ID
- 2D15-251D-F76B
- ORCID iD
- 0000-0002-4879-8600
Websites
- www.alhures.org (Professional)
Knowledge fields
- Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology
Languages
| Language | Speaking | Reading | Writing | Listening | Peer-review |
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| English | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| French | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Beginner (A1) | |
| Spanish; Castilian | Intermediate (B1) | Advanced (C1) | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | |
| Italian | Intermediate (B1) | Intermediate (B1) | Beginner (A1) | Intermediate (B1) |
Education
| Degree | Classification | |
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2017/10/01 - 2022/06/21
Concluded
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PhD in Heritage Studies/ Art history (Doutoramento)
Major in História da arte
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"Arte popular e artesanato em Portugal: atores, redes e narrativas" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2015
Concluded
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Master in Museology (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal
"A Coleção de Timor da Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto: uma introdução às artes tradicionais timorenses" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2009
Concluded
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Master in Social and Cultural Anthropology (Mestrado)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"A dança e o corpo no mundo: um ensaio etnográfico sobre dança contemporânea" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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2007
Concluded
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Degree in Anthropology (Licenciatura)
Universidade de Coimbra Faculdade de Ciencias e Tecnologia, Portugal
"A licenciatura em Antropologia não exigia tese" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
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Affiliation
Science
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2024/11/02 - 2030/10/30 | Contracted Researcher (Research) | Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal |
Teaching in Higher Education
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2023/10/01 - 2024/07/30 | Invited Assistant (Polytechnic Teacher) | Instituto Politécnico do Porto Escola Superior de Educação, Portugal |
Other Careers
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2022/07 - 2022/12 | Técnico Superior (Técnico Superior) | Instituto da Habitação e Reabilitação Urbana, Portugal |
Others
| Category Host institution |
Employer | |
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| 2023 - 2024 | Curator and researcher | Estúdio do alhures, Portugal |
| 2017/10 - 2022/01 | PhD researcher | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2016/02/01 - 2017/03/30 | Gallerist and curator | Galeria Cruzes Canhoto, Portugal |
| 2014/01/01 - 2017/03/30 | Cultural worker | Casa do Vinhal - Associação Cultural, Portugal |
| 2013/10/01 - 2014/09/30 | Internship at Palácio Nacional da Pena | Parques de Sintra Monte da Lua SA, Portugal |
Projects
Contract
| Designation | Funders | |
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| 2024/11/01 - 2030/10/31 | Activating vernacular heritages in the 21 century: towards an organic model of preservation
2023.08195.CEECIND/CP2884/CT0002
Researcher
Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
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Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
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Outputs
Publications
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| Conference poster |
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| Edited book |
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| Exhibition catalog |
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Activities
Oral presentation
| Presentation title | Event name Host (Event location) |
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| 2025/10/19 | Notebooks from elsewhere: Cosmologies of Chance. | 4th Colleex workshop
EASA Collaboratory of Experimental Ethnography (Germany)
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| 2025/10/02 | The Artist as Ethnographer: Archiving Vernacular Heritages | Reactivating archives in contemporary art
(Portugal)
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| 2025/07/15 | Tecnologias tradicionais no século XXI: da patrimonialização à sustentabilidade | IX Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
APA (Portugal)
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| 2025/06/04 | Problematizing the “rural turn” in Portuguese contemporary visual arts | SIEF2025: Unwriting |
| 2023/07 | A performative understanding of heritage and digital humanities: Reflections from a project on Portuguese vernacular arts | Heritage for a Common Future
CHAM/Nova FCSH
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| 2023/01 | The moral dimension of Portuguese folk arts |
CARMAH - Humboldt University
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| 2022/09 | The rural imaginary in Portuguese plastic arts: five artists from the north of Portugal | Camp |
| 2021/06 | The impurities of Ernesto de Sousa and its contribution to Portuguese artistic historiography | Colóquio do centenário de Ernesto de Sousa.
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation
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| 2021 | The heritagization of vernacular artefacts |
ISUP
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| 2019 | Portuguese Folk Art From Ana to Zé: Vicissitudes of a documentation project | VII Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia
FCSH-UNL
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| 2019 | The return to dancing: a project under construction | Jornadas de investigação do Instituto de Sociologia da Universidade do Porto
FLUP
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| 2018 | Between colonialism and post colonialism in the exhibition Remains of an Empire | Art, Materiality and Representation
Royal Anthropological Institute (United Kingdom)
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| 2018 | Towards an historiography of Portuguese folk arts | Discursos expositivos: como, porquê, para quem?
FLUP
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| 2017 | Reflections on the project "The comunity Museum" | VI Congresso da Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia |
| 2016 | Traditional sculpture of Timor in the collection of the Faculty of Arts, University of Porto | IJUP
UP
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Supervision
| Thesis Title Role |
Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization |
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| 2017 - 2018 | Co-supervision of the master thesis "Ensino Online da Olaria de Roda Baixa: Um estudo das representações sociais".
Co-supervisor
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Master degree in Digital Media
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
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Event organisation
| Event name Type of event (Role) |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2026/03 - Current | Ciclo de etnografia expandida #2. Fotografia vernacular (2025) | |
| 2025/02/18 - Current | Ciclo de etnografia expandida #1. Basements as social machines (2025/02/18) | |
| 2022/10 - Current | Curation of the exhibition From looking at trees they don’t see the forest. Portuguese folk sculpture. (2022 - 2022) | |
| 2018 - Current | Curation of the exhibition Remains of an Empire: the photography of Luís de Almeida (with Vera Carmo). (2018 - 2018) | |
| 2023/02 - 2023/06 | Curation of the exhibition "Do popular ao pop: Carlos Barroco e o artesanato português" (2023/02 - 2023/06) | |
| 2022/05 - 2022/08 | Curation of the exhibition "Quando olham as árvores não veem a floresta" (2022/05 - 2022/08) | |
| 2020 - 2020 | Curation of the exhibition Amulets and their unlikely origins, CRU Co-work gallery (with Luciano Moreira and Vera Carmo). (2020 - 2020) |
Event participation
| Activity description Type of event |
Event name Institution / Organization |
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| 2023/03/31 - Current | Project presentation at the Program Cenários Passados, Odisseia
Round table
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Odisseia
Teatro Nacional D Maria II EPE, Portugal
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| 2022/10 - Current | Participation in a Round Table about outsider arts in the seminar "Parallel Cultures" |
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Belas Artes, Portugal
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| 2025/11/25 - 2025/11/25 | Formação: “O que é o Património Cultural Imaterial e como salvaguardá-lo?" |
Jury of academic degree
| Topic Role |
Candidate name (Type of degree) Institution / Organization |
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| 2025/07/14 | O papel das mulheres na defesa, conservação e valorização do Património Cultural Imaterial de Idanha-a-Nova.
(Thesis) Main arguer
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Tânia Isabel Coelho Lourenço (Master) |
| 2024/11/19 | Olhares Criativos: Uma investigação sobre a inovação no artesanato tradicional no contexto das Indústrias Criativas | Ana Vasco (Master) |
Association member
| Society Organization name | Role | |
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| 2026/01 - 2029 | Membro da direção da Associação Portuguese de Antropologia |
Committee member
| Activity description Role |
Institution / Organization | |
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| 2015/12/09 - 2025/12/05 | Presidente da Casa do Vinhal - associação cultural | |
| 2021/03 - 2021/07 | Member of the scientific comittee of the conferences of Porto Design Biennale 2021 | |
| 2018 - 2018 | Member of the organizing comittee of the Seminar: Exhibition discourses: who, why and for whom? | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal |
| 2013 - 2013 | Member of the committee for the organization of the seminar "The future of university Museums in perspective" |
Consulting
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2022/10 - Current | Consultancy for the project Porto Think thanks: Designing futures to Porto wash houses | |
| 2021/07 - 2021/10 | Consultancy for the application of the city of Viana do Castelo to European capital of culture 2027 | |
| 2020 - 2020 | Consultancy for the project "Seven wonders of popular culture" |
Course / Discipline taught
| Academic session | Degree Subject (Type) | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2023/05/01 - 2033/06/30 | Introduction to Portuguese Folk Art | Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, Portugal | |
| 2026/02 - 2026/07 | Património em contextos | Mestrado em Património Cultural | Universidade do Minho, Portugal |
| 2025/09 - 2026/02 | Antropologia | Arquitetura | Universidade do Minho - Campus de Azurém, Portugal |
| 2025/12/19 - 2025/12/20 | Workshop de etnoficção | ||
| 2024/02 - 2024/07 | Noções de expografia | Gestão do Património | Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal |
| 2023/09 - 2024/02 | Programação e produção cultural | Gestão do Património | Instituto Politécnico do Porto, Portugal |
Other jury / evaluation
| Activity description | Institution / Organization | |
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| 2022/11/03 - Current | Jury of the PhD project of Joana Camacho, entitled "ESTUDO, CATALOGAÇÃO E DOCUMENTAÇÃO DA COLEÇÃO DE CERÂMICA UTILITÁRIA DO MUSEU DE ARTE POPULAR" |
Distinctions
Award
| 2024 | Monetary Award for the book "Escultura Popular Portuguesa", selected as a finalist in the category of books on Portuguese Arts and Crafts. |
| 2022 | Monetary Award for the project “Arte Popular de Ana a Zé”, selected as a finalist project for the promotion of traditional
crafts
Instituto do Emprego e Formação Profissional, Portugal
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