Priscila Santos Da Costa
Biographic Data
| ID | 238261 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Priscila Santos Da Costa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Priscila Santos |
| FAMILY NAME | Da Costa |
| SIGNATURE | DA COSTA P S |
| AFFILIATIONS | IT University of Copenhagen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2439-9960 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Salvage technoscience
The Amazon rainforest holds a prominent place in the Western imagination, perceived both as a crucial ecosystem to be preserved and a vast resource to be exploited. This article examines the concept of "salvage technoscience," an approach promoted by Brazilian scientists in collaboration with tech initiatives and entrepreneurs, which seeks to reconcile conservation with resource extraction. Salvage technoscience aims to develop sustainable method…
It is Christ or Corruption in Papua New Guinea
Endemic corruption and fervent Christianity dominate Papua New Guinea (PNG) public discourse. We draw on ethnographic material—including the emplacement of a King James V Bible in Parliament—to contextualise corruption discourse and Christian measures against corruption within evolving Papua New Guinean ideas about witnessing. Both corruption discourse and Christianity invoke a specific kind of observer: a disembodied, reliable witness capable of…
Postcolonial nationalism and neo‐Pentecostalism
This article offers an anthropological analysis of a Papua New Guinean nationalist ideology deeply inspired by neo‐Pentecostalism. The basis for this study comes from ethnographic material collected during my fieldwork in the Parliament of Papua New Guinea (PNG), where I worked with a group of politicians and bureaucrats who have become known for their iconoclastic and evangelical actions, including their (in)famous destruction of traditional car…
Postcolonial nationalism and neo‐Pentecostalism
This article offers an anthropological analysis of a Papua New Guinean nationalist ideology deeply inspired by neo‐Pentecostalism. The basis for this study comes from ethnographic material collected during my fieldwork in the Parliament of Papua New Guinea (PNG), where I worked with a group of politicians and bureaucrats who have become known for their iconoclastic and evangelical actions, including their (in)famous destruction of traditional car…
It is Christ or Corruption in Papua New Guinea
Endemic corruption and fervent Christianity dominate Papua New Guinea (PNG) public discourse. We draw on ethnographic material—including the emplacement of a King James V Bible in Parliament—to contextualise corruption discourse and Christian measures against corruption within evolving Papua New Guinean ideas about witnessing. Both corruption discourse and Christianity invoke a specific kind of observer: a disembodied, reliable witness capable of…
Postcolonial nationalism and neo‐Pentecostalism
This article offers an anthropological analysis of a Papua New Guinean nationalist ideology deeply inspired by neo‐Pentecostalism. The basis for this study comes from ethnographic material collected during my fieldwork in the Parliament of Papua New Guinea (PNG), where I worked with a group of politicians and bureaucrats who have become known for their iconoclastic and evangelical actions, including their (in)famous destruction of traditional car…
Salvage technoscience
The Amazon rainforest holds a prominent place in the Western imagination, perceived both as a crucial ecosystem to be preserved and a vast resource to be exploited. This article examines the concept of "salvage technoscience," an approach promoted by Brazilian scientists in collaboration with tech initiatives and entrepreneurs, which seeks to reconcile conservation with resource extraction. Salvage technoscience aims to develop sustainable method…
Sociology (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (2 works) · Ethnology (2 works) · Law (2 works) · New guinea (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Amazon rainforest (1 works) · Amazonian Archaeology and Ethnohistory (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography (1 works)