J Mapril
Biographic Data
| ID | 15782 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Mapril |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Mapril |
| SIGNATURE | MAPRIL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Centre for Research in Anthropology |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5993-9029 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction: Heritage and Religion in South Asia and its Diasporas
This thematic section, emerging from a June 2023 international workshop at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) in Lisbon, investigates the frictions, entanglements and reconfigurations of heritage and religion across global South Asia. Drawing on ethnographic research in South Asia and its often-overlooked diasporas in China, Mozambique, Portugal and Italy, the contributions explore how heritage and religious practices and spaces are m…
Frictions, entanglements and reconfigurations: Religion and heritage in global South Asia
This article introduces the thematic section Heritage and Religion in South Asia and its Diasporas and proposes a new framework for analysing the relationship between religion and heritage. While previous scholarship has often approached this nexus in terms of similarities or conflicts, the article argues that global South Asia offers a productive ground for rethinking the complex ways in which religion and heritage interact and shape each other …
Desiring home: A long-term ethnography of a mosque in Lisbon
The recent literature on home has focused on the importance of imagination and performativity in the making of places. In this article, I bring together the imagined and the material dimensions of home-making, to show how people (re)attach themselves to multiple places and, in the process, project idealized moral orders. These arguments draw on an ethnography of a mosque in Lisbon, established in 2000 by a group of Portuguese-Bangladeshi entrepre…
The Power of Death: Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society
The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial custo…
Making a “Bangladeshi diaspora”: Migration, group formation and emplacement between Portugal and Bangladesh
In 1996, Appadurai argued that imagination is an essential element in the creation of cross-border political forms.Electronic media, for example, establishes links across national boundaries, linking those who move and those who stay.In his argument, these diasporic public spheres were examples of post-national political worlds and revealed the erosion of the nation-state in the face of globalisation and modernity. In this paper, I draw inspirati…
Banglascapes in Southern Europe: Im-mobilities, emplacements, temporalities
This special issue stems from a panel we organised at the European Conference on South Asian Studies in 2018, under the title ‘Banglascapes in Southern Europe: comparative perspectives’. Not all the panel participants from that conference feature in this special issue, and not all the authors included here were present at the conference. Nevertheless, the panel represents a first important moment in which we began to collect case-studies and insi…
Placing the future: Onward migration, education and citizenship among Portuguese‐Bangladeshi in London
Based on a longitudinal ethnography with Bangladeshis in Lisbon and in London, this article unravels the ways my interlocutors perceive their onward migration projects to the UK. Their decision to migrate once again was intimately connected with the education of their children. This would not only make them fluent in English language, a global language of power and prestige according to many but would give them access to better opportunities in t…
Paisagens islâmicas na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa: (Pós)colonialismo E Políticas De Reconhecimento
A história do Islão e dos muçulmanos no Portugal contemporâneo está indelevelmente marcada pelas dinâmicas coloniais, mas também por processos pós-coloniais. As próprias configurações institucionais do “Islão público” na sociedade portuguesa revelam esta importância e, simultaneamente, criaram as condições para uma hierarquização de determinadas vozes e projectos entre os muçulmanos.Partindo de três pesquisas sustentadas em trabalho de campo etno…
Recensão: O Culto do Divino: Migrações e Transformações
Giulia Mensitieri - «Le Plus beau métier du Monde». Dans les coulisses de l'industrie de la mode [Recensão]
Giulia Mensitieri -«Le Plus beau métier du
Travelling Spirits, Localizing Roots: Transnationalisms, Home and Generation among Portuguese-Canadians in British Columbia
Introduction. Imagining Bangladesh: Contested Narratives
Bangladesh is a country that appears only on the margins of western news and academic interest. When it does, it is usually in the context of catastrophes. In this Introduction to the special issue, we agree with Lewis (2011) that this large, complex and dynamic country merits more attention. Looking at it through the lens of 'contested narratives' centring on identities, notions of home and belonging in transnational Bangladeshi communities and …
"Aren't You Looking for Citizenship in the Wrong Place?" Islamic Education, Secularities, and the Portuguese Muslim
The Dreams of Middle Class: Consumption, Life-course and Migration Between Bangladesh and Portugal
In the past 20 years, Bangladeshi migration to Southern European countries has gained an increasing importance. Portugal is no exception, and today more than 4,500 Bangladeshis live in the country. One of the more interesting facets of this population, though, is their educational and economic profile. They come from what has been roughly summed up as the 'new' Bangladeshi 'middle classes'. Their families are both rural and urban, have properties…
A Shahid Minar in Lisbon: Long Distance Nationalism, Politics of Memory and Community among Luso-Bangladeshis
The literature on what could be called a Bangladeshi transnational public sphere has grown significantly in the last few years and has focused mainly on translocal political activities and ways of belonging for British Bangladeshis and Bangladeshi immigrants in the UK. However, this public sphere includes other locations and actors that have so far been left out of the picture. Based on a situational analysis of the celebrations of Sahid Dibosh (…
Mutualidade e conhecimento etnográfico
Um dos mais difíceis desafios colocados a um antropólogo é o de explicar a uma audiência de colegas de diversas áreas disciplinares como é que no processo de trabalho de campo vamos reorientando a nossa análise, hipóteses e interpretações. Contrariando a ideia de que esta reorientação resulta de uma espécie de transcendência da produção etnográfica, onde os imprevistos seriam simples experiências autorais, neste texto, onde lançamos o debate dest…
Le lieu de la « bonne mort » pour les migrants guinéens et bangladais au Portugal
Les dimensions transnationales des migrations ont pris une importance théorique et ethnographique croissante. Les liens et mobilités qu'elles supposent sont souvent accompagnés par la construction sociale et symbolique des espaces d'appartenance. Dans cet article, nous montrons que la mort est une bonne métaphore pour penser cette production des lieux et des espaces d'appartenance dans des contextes transnationaux. La mort implique la circulation…
The patron and the madman: Migration, success and the (in)visibility of failure among Bangladeshis in Portugal
Based on research about Bangladeshi migration in Portugal, carried out between 2003 and 2008, the main objective of this article is to explore ethnographically the ambiguity of the migratory imagination. This ambiguity is expressed in two figures – the patron (the in Portuguese) and the madman (the in Bengali). The first is the exemplary migrant, economically successful and morally responsible while the second is an extreme case of failure and a …
Book and Film Reviews
BIELO, James S., Words Upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study, x, 187 pp., notes, references, index. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Paperback, $21. ISBN 9780814791226. BLACKBURN, Anne M., Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka, xxii, 237 pp., figures, bibliographical references. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Cloth, $45. ISBN 9780226055077. BRUCE, Steve, Paisley: Religion and…
Banglapara: Imigração, negócios e (in)formalidades em Lisboa
Nos últimos anos, os estudos sobre migrações têm atribuído uma crescente importância aos negócios e às actividades empresariais. A existência de oportunidades estruturais e a disponibilidade de capital social são duas dimensões frequentemente mencionadas para explicar a sua emergência. Uma terceira dimensão remete para a relação entre imigração e as chamadas economias subterrâneas, paralelas ou informais. É precisamente este o tema que o presente…
Book and Film Reviews
BENTLEY, Alex (ed.), The Edge of Reason? Science and Religion in Modern Society, 222 pp., foreword. London: Continuum, 2008. Paperback, £13.99. ISBN: 9781847062185. BERGER, Peter, Grace DAVIE, and Effi e FOKAS, Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations, 176 pp., bibliography, index. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Paperback, £16.99. ISBN: 978075466011. LEVEY, Geoffrey Brahm and Tariq MODOOD (eds.), Secularism, Religion and Multicultural…
Geografias da virtude: "Bons" Muçulmanos E as Políticas Da Oração Entre Bangladeshis Em Lisboa
Partindo da obra de Marcel Mauss, este artigo pretende argumentar que a oração é uma dimensão cerimonial que, para além dos evidentes aspectos teológicos e doutrinários, permite aos sujeitos refletir sobre as condições sociais, políticas e econômicas cotidianas. Tal argumento será explorado a partir de uma etnografia sobre bangladeshis, que vivem entre Portugal e Bangladesh realizada entre 2003 e 2008, na qual procurarei revelar como os discursos…
Aqui ninguém reza por ele: Trânsitos fúnebres entre o Bangladesh e Portugal
Nas últimas décadas, as dimensões transnacionais dos fenómenos migratórios assumiram uma crescente importância teórica e etnográfica. Por transnacional refiro-me aos múltiplos e permanentes laços sustentados entre o país de 'origem' e o país de 'acolhimento'. Uma das consequências desta mudança interpretativa foi a constatação de que tais laços e mobilidades - reais e imaginadas - são frequentemente acompanhados pela construção social e simbólica…
Maulana Says The Prophet is Human, Not God”: Milads and hierarchies among Bengali Muslims in Lisbon
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out among Bengali Muslims in Lisbon. It specifically examines a ceremony, called milad that is performed on certain occasions such as the opening of a shop or the inauguration of a house. What it is intended to argue is that milads are a good metaphor to understand current debates among the Bengalis about what Islam “should be” and what, as a Muslim, one should do. Based on this ethnographic…
The Dreams of Middle Class: Consumption, Life-course and Migration Between Bangladesh and Portugal
In the past 20 years, Bangladeshi migration to Southern European countries has gained an increasing importance. Portugal is no exception, and today more than 4,500 Bangladeshis live in the country. One of the more interesting facets of this population, though, is their educational and economic profile. They come from what has been roughly summed up as the 'new' Bangladeshi 'middle classes'. Their families are both rural and urban, have properties…
Placing the future: Onward migration, education and citizenship among Portuguese‐Bangladeshi in London
Based on a longitudinal ethnography with Bangladeshis in Lisbon and in London, this article unravels the ways my interlocutors perceive their onward migration projects to the UK. Their decision to migrate once again was intimately connected with the education of their children. This would not only make them fluent in English language, a global language of power and prestige according to many but would give them access to better opportunities in t…
Paisagens islâmicas na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa: (Pós)colonialismo E Políticas De Reconhecimento
A história do Islão e dos muçulmanos no Portugal contemporâneo está indelevelmente marcada pelas dinâmicas coloniais, mas também por processos pós-coloniais. As próprias configurações institucionais do “Islão público” na sociedade portuguesa revelam esta importância e, simultaneamente, criaram as condições para uma hierarquização de determinadas vozes e projectos entre os muçulmanos.Partindo de três pesquisas sustentadas em trabalho de campo etno…
A Shahid Minar in Lisbon: Long Distance Nationalism, Politics of Memory and Community among Luso-Bangladeshis
The literature on what could be called a Bangladeshi transnational public sphere has grown significantly in the last few years and has focused mainly on translocal political activities and ways of belonging for British Bangladeshis and Bangladeshi immigrants in the UK. However, this public sphere includes other locations and actors that have so far been left out of the picture. Based on a situational analysis of the celebrations of Sahid Dibosh (…
Le lieu de la « bonne mort » pour les migrants guinéens et bangladais au Portugal
Les dimensions transnationales des migrations ont pris une importance théorique et ethnographique croissante. Les liens et mobilités qu'elles supposent sont souvent accompagnés par la construction sociale et symbolique des espaces d'appartenance. Dans cet article, nous montrons que la mort est une bonne métaphore pour penser cette production des lieux et des espaces d'appartenance dans des contextes transnationaux. La mort implique la circulation…
Travelling Spirits, Localizing Roots: Transnationalisms, Home and Generation among Portuguese-Canadians in British Columbia
Geografias da virtude: "Bons" Muçulmanos E as Políticas Da Oração Entre Bangladeshis Em Lisboa
Partindo da obra de Marcel Mauss, este artigo pretende argumentar que a oração é uma dimensão cerimonial que, para além dos evidentes aspectos teológicos e doutrinários, permite aos sujeitos refletir sobre as condições sociais, políticas e econômicas cotidianas. Tal argumento será explorado a partir de uma etnografia sobre bangladeshis, que vivem entre Portugal e Bangladesh realizada entre 2003 e 2008, na qual procurarei revelar como os discursos…
Maulana Says The Prophet is Human, Not God”: Milads and hierarchies among Bengali Muslims in Lisbon
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out among Bengali Muslims in Lisbon. It specifically examines a ceremony, called milad that is performed on certain occasions such as the opening of a shop or the inauguration of a house. What it is intended to argue is that milads are a good metaphor to understand current debates among the Bengalis about what Islam “should be” and what, as a Muslim, one should do. Based on this ethnographic…
Maulana Says The Prophet is Human, Not God”: Milads and hierarchies among Bengali Muslims in Lisbon
This article is based on ethnographic fieldwork carried out among Bengali Muslims in Lisbon. It specifically examines a ceremony, called milad that is performed on certain occasions such as the opening of a shop or the inauguration of a house. What it is intended to argue is that milads are a good metaphor to understand current debates among the Bengalis about what Islam “should be” and what, as a Muslim, one should do. Based on this ethnographic…
Geografias da virtude: "Bons" Muçulmanos E as Políticas Da Oração Entre Bangladeshis Em Lisboa
Partindo da obra de Marcel Mauss, este artigo pretende argumentar que a oração é uma dimensão cerimonial que, para além dos evidentes aspectos teológicos e doutrinários, permite aos sujeitos refletir sobre as condições sociais, políticas e econômicas cotidianas. Tal argumento será explorado a partir de uma etnografia sobre bangladeshis, que vivem entre Portugal e Bangladesh realizada entre 2003 e 2008, na qual procurarei revelar como os discursos…
Aqui ninguém reza por ele: Trânsitos fúnebres entre o Bangladesh e Portugal
Nas últimas décadas, as dimensões transnacionais dos fenómenos migratórios assumiram uma crescente importância teórica e etnográfica. Por transnacional refiro-me aos múltiplos e permanentes laços sustentados entre o país de 'origem' e o país de 'acolhimento'. Uma das consequências desta mudança interpretativa foi a constatação de que tais laços e mobilidades - reais e imaginadas - são frequentemente acompanhados pela construção social e simbólica…
Banglapara: Imigração, negócios e (in)formalidades em Lisboa
Nos últimos anos, os estudos sobre migrações têm atribuído uma crescente importância aos negócios e às actividades empresariais. A existência de oportunidades estruturais e a disponibilidade de capital social são duas dimensões frequentemente mencionadas para explicar a sua emergência. Uma terceira dimensão remete para a relação entre imigração e as chamadas economias subterrâneas, paralelas ou informais. É precisamente este o tema que o presente…
Book and Film Reviews
BENTLEY, Alex (ed.), The Edge of Reason? Science and Religion in Modern Society, 222 pp., foreword. London: Continuum, 2008. Paperback, £13.99. ISBN: 9781847062185. BERGER, Peter, Grace DAVIE, and Effi e FOKAS, Religious America, Secular Europe? A Theme and Variations, 176 pp., bibliography, index. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008. Paperback, £16.99. ISBN: 978075466011. LEVEY, Geoffrey Brahm and Tariq MODOOD (eds.), Secularism, Religion and Multicultural…
The patron and the madman: Migration, success and the (in)visibility of failure among Bangladeshis in Portugal
Based on research about Bangladeshi migration in Portugal, carried out between 2003 and 2008, the main objective of this article is to explore ethnographically the ambiguity of the migratory imagination. This ambiguity is expressed in two figures – the patron (the in Portuguese) and the madman (the in Bengali). The first is the exemplary migrant, economically successful and morally responsible while the second is an extreme case of failure and a …
Book and Film Reviews
BIELO, James S., Words Upon the Word: An Ethnography of Evangelical Group Bible Study, x, 187 pp., notes, references, index. New York: New York University Press, 2009. Paperback, $21. ISBN 9780814791226. BLACKBURN, Anne M., Locations of Buddhism: Colonialism and Modernity in Sri Lanka, xxii, 237 pp., figures, bibliographical references. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010. Cloth, $45. ISBN 9780226055077. BRUCE, Steve, Paisley: Religion and…
Mutualidade e conhecimento etnográfico
Um dos mais difíceis desafios colocados a um antropólogo é o de explicar a uma audiência de colegas de diversas áreas disciplinares como é que no processo de trabalho de campo vamos reorientando a nossa análise, hipóteses e interpretações. Contrariando a ideia de que esta reorientação resulta de uma espécie de transcendência da produção etnográfica, onde os imprevistos seriam simples experiências autorais, neste texto, onde lançamos o debate dest…
Le lieu de la « bonne mort » pour les migrants guinéens et bangladais au Portugal
Les dimensions transnationales des migrations ont pris une importance théorique et ethnographique croissante. Les liens et mobilités qu'elles supposent sont souvent accompagnés par la construction sociale et symbolique des espaces d'appartenance. Dans cet article, nous montrons que la mort est une bonne métaphore pour penser cette production des lieux et des espaces d'appartenance dans des contextes transnationaux. La mort implique la circulation…
Introduction. Imagining Bangladesh: Contested Narratives
Bangladesh is a country that appears only on the margins of western news and academic interest. When it does, it is usually in the context of catastrophes. In this Introduction to the special issue, we agree with Lewis (2011) that this large, complex and dynamic country merits more attention. Looking at it through the lens of 'contested narratives' centring on identities, notions of home and belonging in transnational Bangladeshi communities and …
"Aren't You Looking for Citizenship in the Wrong Place?" Islamic Education, Secularities, and the Portuguese Muslim
The Dreams of Middle Class: Consumption, Life-course and Migration Between Bangladesh and Portugal
In the past 20 years, Bangladeshi migration to Southern European countries has gained an increasing importance. Portugal is no exception, and today more than 4,500 Bangladeshis live in the country. One of the more interesting facets of this population, though, is their educational and economic profile. They come from what has been roughly summed up as the 'new' Bangladeshi 'middle classes'. Their families are both rural and urban, have properties…
A Shahid Minar in Lisbon: Long Distance Nationalism, Politics of Memory and Community among Luso-Bangladeshis
The literature on what could be called a Bangladeshi transnational public sphere has grown significantly in the last few years and has focused mainly on translocal political activities and ways of belonging for British Bangladeshis and Bangladeshi immigrants in the UK. However, this public sphere includes other locations and actors that have so far been left out of the picture. Based on a situational analysis of the celebrations of Sahid Dibosh (…
Travelling Spirits, Localizing Roots: Transnationalisms, Home and Generation among Portuguese-Canadians in British Columbia
Giulia Mensitieri - «Le Plus beau métier du Monde». Dans les coulisses de l'industrie de la mode [Recensão]
Giulia Mensitieri -«Le Plus beau métier du
Paisagens islâmicas na Área Metropolitana de Lisboa: (Pós)colonialismo E Políticas De Reconhecimento
A história do Islão e dos muçulmanos no Portugal contemporâneo está indelevelmente marcada pelas dinâmicas coloniais, mas também por processos pós-coloniais. As próprias configurações institucionais do “Islão público” na sociedade portuguesa revelam esta importância e, simultaneamente, criaram as condições para uma hierarquização de determinadas vozes e projectos entre os muçulmanos.Partindo de três pesquisas sustentadas em trabalho de campo etno…
Recensão: O Culto do Divino: Migrações e Transformações
Making a “Bangladeshi diaspora”: Migration, group formation and emplacement between Portugal and Bangladesh
In 1996, Appadurai argued that imagination is an essential element in the creation of cross-border political forms.Electronic media, for example, establishes links across national boundaries, linking those who move and those who stay.In his argument, these diasporic public spheres were examples of post-national political worlds and revealed the erosion of the nation-state in the face of globalisation and modernity. In this paper, I draw inspirati…
Banglascapes in Southern Europe: Im-mobilities, emplacements, temporalities
This special issue stems from a panel we organised at the European Conference on South Asian Studies in 2018, under the title ‘Banglascapes in Southern Europe: comparative perspectives’. Not all the panel participants from that conference feature in this special issue, and not all the authors included here were present at the conference. Nevertheless, the panel represents a first important moment in which we began to collect case-studies and insi…
Placing the future: Onward migration, education and citizenship among Portuguese‐Bangladeshi in London
Based on a longitudinal ethnography with Bangladeshis in Lisbon and in London, this article unravels the ways my interlocutors perceive their onward migration projects to the UK. Their decision to migrate once again was intimately connected with the education of their children. This would not only make them fluent in English language, a global language of power and prestige according to many but would give them access to better opportunities in t…
The Power of Death: Contemporary Reflections on Death in Western Society
The social and cultural changes of the last century have transformed death from an everyday fact to something hidden from view. Shifting between the practical and the theoretical, the professional and the intimate, the real and the fictitious, this collection of essays explores the continued power of death over our lives. It examines the idea and experience of death from an interdisciplinary perspective, including studies of changing burial custo…
Desiring home: A long-term ethnography of a mosque in Lisbon
The recent literature on home has focused on the importance of imagination and performativity in the making of places. In this article, I bring together the imagined and the material dimensions of home-making, to show how people (re)attach themselves to multiple places and, in the process, project idealized moral orders. These arguments draw on an ethnography of a mosque in Lisbon, established in 2000 by a group of Portuguese-Bangladeshi entrepre…
Introduction: Heritage and Religion in South Asia and its Diasporas
This thematic section, emerging from a June 2023 international workshop at the Centre for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) in Lisbon, investigates the frictions, entanglements and reconfigurations of heritage and religion across global South Asia. Drawing on ethnographic research in South Asia and its often-overlooked diasporas in China, Mozambique, Portugal and Italy, the contributions explore how heritage and religious practices and spaces are m…
Frictions, entanglements and reconfigurations: Religion and heritage in global South Asia
This article introduces the thematic section Heritage and Religion in South Asia and its Diasporas and proposes a new framework for analysing the relationship between religion and heritage. While previous scholarship has often approached this nexus in terms of similarities or conflicts, the article argues that global South Asia offers a productive ground for rethinking the complex ways in which religion and heritage interact and shape each other …
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