{"id":21708,"date":"2025-01-24T11:40:14","date_gmt":"2025-01-24T11:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/?post_type=ac_scholars&p=21708"},"modified":"2025-03-17T11:10:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T11:10:49","slug":"virgilio-coelho","status":"publish","type":"ac_scholars","link":"https:\/\/www.acad-ciencias.pt\/eng\/scholars\/virgilio-coelho\/","title":{"rendered":"Virg\u00edlio Coelho"},"content":{"rendered":"

An anthropologist, he graduated from the \u00c9cole Pratique des Hautes \u00c9tudes (EPHE), Universit\u00e9 de Paris – Sorbonne (France), having submitted the work entitled La place des jumeaux dans le syst\u00e8me religieux des Ndongo (Ambundu)<\/em>, Angola (Paris, EPHE, 1987, 524 pp.), where he also carried out doctoral studies in Ethnology, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Michel Cartry. He completed his master’s degree: Dipl\u00f4me d’\u00c9tudes Approfondis (DEA), in the specialty of \u201cAnthropologie compar\u00e9e des Religions d’Afrique, d’Orient et d’Extreme Orient\u201d, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jacqueline Duvernay-Bolens, having submitted a dissertation entitled Le culte des \u201cg\u00e9nies\u201d ituta chez les Ndongo de la vall\u00e9e du Kwanza, Angola<\/em> (Paris, EPHE, 1978, 178 pp.). He is currently preparing his PhD in Social Anthropology at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the Agostinho Neto University (UAN).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is a retired Senior Advisor to the Ministry of Culture (MINCULT) and Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology (DA) at FCS-UAN), where he is currently teaching Ethnography of Angola I and II, Anthropology of the Symbolic; Historical Anthropology and Cultural Policy of Angola. He runs Edi\u00e7\u00f5es Mulemba<\/em>, the publishing house of FCS-UAN, and is the editor of Mulemba – Revista Angolana de Ci\u00eancias Sociais<\/em>; previously, he was the editor of: Maka – Revista de Literatura & Artes<\/em>, organ of the Union of Angolan Writers (UEA) and Ngola – Revista de Estudos Sociais<\/em>, organ of the Association of Anthropologists and Sociologists of Angola (AASA).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2010, he was awarded the \u201cNational Prize for Culture and the Arts\u201d, in the Human and Social Sciences specialty (an annual prize from the Angolan government), for his work \u201cEm busca de K\u00e1b\u00e0s\u00e0!…<\/em>\u201dEstudos e reflex\u00f5es sobre o \u00abReino\u00bb do Nd\u00f2ng\u00f2. Contribui\u00e7\u00f5es para a Hist\u00f3ria de Angola<\/em> (Luanda, Kilombelombe, 2010, 470 pp. [Collection \u201cCi\u00eancias Humanas e Sociais – S\u00e9rie Hist\u00f3ria de Angola\u201d, n.\u00ba 5] and Os T\u00fam\u00fand\u00f2ng\u00f2, os \u201cg\u00e9nios\u201d da natureza e o K\u00edl\u00e0mb\u00e0. Estudos sobre a Sociedade e a Cultura K\u00edmb\u00f9nd\u00f9 <\/em>(Luanda, Kilombelombe, 2010, 420 pp. [Collection \u201cHuman and Social Sciences\u201d, Series Sociology and Anthropology; no. 5].<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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