Overview

Global Portuguese results from conferences convened at the University of London School of Advanced Study to highlight legacies of Portuguese empire in postcolonial societies. Its chapters trace Portuguese legacies from the early modern to contemporary period through history, anthropology, language, literature, linguistics, and cuisine. There are sections devoted to sociolinguistic and anthropological method, and studies on Thailand, Sri Lanka, Goa, Macau, Brazil, Angola, Indonesia, São Tomé, and Zambesia. Contributors are: Matthias Rõhrig Assunção, Dorothée Boulanger, Silvia Figueiredo Brandão, David Brookshaw, Paul Melo e Castro, Augusto Soares da Silva, Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya, Stefan Halikowski Smith, Annabel Jackson, Ivana Stolze Lima, Selina Patel Nascimento, Malyn Newitt, Gerhard Seibert, Andrzej Stuart-Thompson, Raan-Hann Tan, and Silvia Rodrigues Vieira.

Full Product Details

9789004710504

Table of Contents

Reviews

Author Information

Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya is Visiting Professor at the University of Visual & Performing Arts, Colombo and former Visiting Professor at the Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. She is Senior Research Fellow at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. At the University of Cambridge, Shihan is Senior Associate at Lucy Cavendish College, and Research Associate at the Department of Modern and Medieval Languages & Linguistics. She is also a Discretionary Associate, Faculty of History, University of Oxford. Stefan Halikowski Smith is Guest Professor at KU Leuven and Honorary Associate Research Professor at Warwick University. He trained in Portuguese overseas history at the European University Institute in Fiesole, Italy, and is the author of Creolization and Diaspora in the Portuguese Indies. The Social World of Ayutthaya, 1640-1720. Brill (2011).

Tab Content 6

Countries Available