About me
Cristina Sá Valentim is a social-cultural anthropologist. She is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Social Sciences of University of Lisbon (ICS-ULisboa) and an Invited Assistant Professor at the University of Coimbra. She has carried out research combining social ecology, anthropology, sociology, postcolonial studies, and digital humanities. She is PI in the research project “Archives of Lived Songs: History, Memories and Legacies of Angolan Colonial Folk Music (1950-2020)”, doing research on colonial sound archives, colonial power, and African heritage and agency in Angolan rural territories. (Ref. 2021.01457.CEECIND/CP1696/CT0010). In 2022 she published the book in Luanda (Angola) with the title Sons do Império, Vozes do Cipale. Canções cokwe e memórias do trabalho forçado nas Lundas, Angola [Sounds of Empire, Voices of Cipale. Cokwe Songs and Memories of Forced Labor in the Lundas region, Angola]. This book was published by the Angolan Dr António Agostinho Neto Foundation (FAAN) because the research in which it is based was the winning doctoral thesis of the 3rd edition of the «Agostinho Neto» International Historical Research Prize organized by FAAN, Angola; the Afro-Brazilian Institute of Higher Education (IABES), Brazil; and UNESCO.