Death on the Move: Managing Narratives, Silences and Constraints in a Trans-National Perspective

José Mapril received his PhD in Anthropology from the Institute of Social Sciences at the University of Lisbon, and is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal. He is also a Senior Researcher at Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia (CRIA), where he has developed a research project on re-migration, life-course and future among Bangladeshis in Europe. With João Leal, he coordinates, the “Circulation and Production of Places” research group within CRIA. His publications include Secularisms in a Post Secular Age? Religiosities and subjectivities in a comparative perspective (co-edited with Ruy Blanes, Erin Wilson and Emerson Giumbelli; 2017).

Clara Saraiva received her PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, Portugal, where she is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities and Researcher at the Centre for Anthropological Research. Her research focuses on religious transnationalism, the expansion of Afro-Brazilian religions, the anthropology of health and alternative therapies, and ethnography and cultural heritage, in Portugal, Brazil and Africa. Her most recent publications include Experiencing Religion: New Approaches towards Personal Religiosity (in collaboration with Kinga Povedak and Lionel Obadia and José Mapril; 2015).