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Dear colleagues,

As some of you already know, during the last 15 years I have been
conducting anthropological research on the role of images and visuality
within the cult of María Lionza, a religious practice native from Venezuela.

This research has been carried out through visual methods and has led to
several outcomes.

I am currently starting a new research project (*ERC-Consolidator Grant*,
see below). It is for this reason that I have decided to gather all the
material related to María Lionza in a website in order to make it
accessible for a large audience. Most of the scientific publications are in
open-access.

Among other materials, in this website you will have the opportunity to
watch the films I have made on this topic, to make a virtual visit to the
exhibition I curated in Barcelona, to read some of the articles that I have
written on this theme, and to have a glimpse on the participatory website I
ran during 4 years.

Here is the website:

www.va-marialionza.com

Do not hesitate to share this message with your colleagues and friends
working on: Visual Anthropology & Multi-modal Anthropology; Lationamerican
and Caribbean studies (especially African-American Culture); Religion &
Ritual.

Feel free to use it in your seminars.

By the way, the book *A Goddess in Motion. Visual Creativity in the Cult of
María Lionza *(Berghahn Books, 2017) will be published in paperback in
January 2022. You can order it from the website.

Thank you for your interest,

best regards from Barcelona,

Roger


Dr. Roger Canals (Phd) / Associate Professor
*PI ERC-Consolidator Grant: Visual Trust. Reliability, accountability and
forgery in scientific, religious and social images (2021-2026)*
Anthropologist and Filmmaker
University of Barcelona
Department of Social Anthropology
C/Montalegre 6, 08001, Barcelona.
Office 2012
Tel: (0034)934037751
rocanals@ub.edu
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