Mariza Peirano
Affiliation
- Visiting Scholar, University of Brasilia
Center on Organizational Innovation
Research
Mariza Peirano is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Brasilia and a senior researcher at the National Scientific and Technological Development Council (CNPq) in Brazil. She holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Harvard University (1981). Her present research focuses on the presence of the state in people's everyday lives by examining ID papers and their symbolism in action from an ethnographic perspective (especially in relation to Brazil and, during her appointment at COI, the American case). The comparison among different national contexts in which anthropology as a discipline and theoretical project has been conceived constitutes one of her long-term topics of research. Her publications include (in Portuguese) Uma Antropologia no Plural (1992); A Favor da Etnografia (1995); O Dito e o Feito. Ensaios de Antropologia dos Rituais (as editor, 2001); Rituais Ontem e Hoje (2003); A Teoria Vivida (2006). She has also had articles published in Annual Review of Anthropology: ("When anthropology is at home: The different contexts of a single discipline," 1998); Indian Social Science Review ("In pursuit of anthropology," 1999); Sociological Theory ("The pluralism of Antonio Candido," 1992); Contributions to Indian Sociology ("For a Sociology of India: some comments from Brazil," 1991).
