Dr. Marcos Freire de Andrade Neves
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Research Associate (Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger)
Teaching and Research in the Research Area Medical Anthropolgy I Global Health
Marcos Andrade Neves is postdoctoral research associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at Freie Universität Berlin, where he is associated with the Research Area Medical Anthropolgy I Global Health. He researched the transnational circulation of people, drugs, and technologies in the context of organized assisted suicide, focusing mainly in Germany, Switzerland, and the UK.
He is currently a DAAD PRIME fellow at FU Berlin and University of Edinburgh.
2020-2025
Research Associate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology (Research Area Medical Anthropology), Free University of Berlin
2019-2020
Guest Lecturer at Free University of Berlin, Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
2014-2018
PhD in Social Anthropology
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany - Research Fellowship
Working title: On Their Own Terms: The processes of institutionalization of assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia
Supervisors: Prof. Dr. Arlei Sander Damo; Prof. Dr. Hansjörg Dilger
Scholarship: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES); Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD)
2012-2014
Masters degree in Social Anthropology
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, UFRGS, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Title: Por onde vivem os mortos: o processo de fabricação da morte e da pessoa morta no segmento funerário de Porto Alegre
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Arlei Sander Damo
Scholarship: Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)
Awards
- Prêmio PPGAS-UFRGS de Teses e Dissertações, PPGAS-UFRGS. [Master thesis]
- Finalist Prêmio Pierre Verger, ABA [visual ethnography, for documentary 555 Chocolatão]
- Menção honrosa - Prêmio SESC de Fotografia Marc Ferrez [photography]
- Prêmio Off-FLIP de Literatura 2011 [short story]
Memberships
- German Anthropological Association (DGSKA/GAA)
- AG Medical Anthropology (German Anthropological Association, DGSKA/GAA)
- Scottish Parliament Cross-Party Group on End of Life Choices
- European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA)
Winter Semester 2021/2022
“Face Politics”, BA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
“BA Kolloquium”,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
Summer Semester 2021
"Introduction to Medical Anthropology", MA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
"Introduction to Visual and Media Anthropology", MA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
Winter Semester 2020/2021
"Anthropology of Religion", MA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
"Introduction to Medical Anthropology", BA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
Summer Semester 2020
"Introduction to Medical Anthropology", MA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
"Doing Anthropology on the Move", BA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
"Methodenübung B (ethnographic methods)", BA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
"Methodenübung D (ethnographic methodes)", BA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
Winter Semester 2019/2020
"Anthropology in Between Life and Death", BA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
"Einführung in die Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology), Proseminar B", BA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
"Einführung in die Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology), Proseminar A", BA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
Summer Semester 2019
"Introduction to Medical Anthroplogy", MA seminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
Winter Semester 2018/2019
"Assisted suicide at the crossroads of care, medicine, and law", BA-Hauptseminar,
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, Freie Universität Berlin
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Journal Articles (peer-reviewed) |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2021). “Living the Death of Others: The disruption of death in the Covid-19 pandemic.” Horizontes Antropológicos. |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2020). “Protecting Life, Facilitating Death: The bureaucratic experience of organized suicide assistance.” Medicine Anthropology Theory. |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2019). "States of uncertainty: plural laws and affective governance in the context of assisted suicide in Germany." The Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law: 1-13. 10.1080/07329113.2018.1550706 |
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Andrade Neves, M/Damo, A. (2016). “Dinheiro, emoção e agência: uma etnografia no mercado funerário de Porto Alegre.” Revista Mana: 7-36. 10.1590/0104-93132016v22n1p007 |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2016). “Entre pessoa, corpo e coisa: a vida social de cadáveres em laboratórios de anatomia.” Revista Antropolítica: 206-229. |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2015). “O culto ecúmeno-científico: análise do Culto Ecumênico em Homenagem aos Doadores de Corpos.” Debates do NER: 407-426. |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2014). “A percepção sobre os usos de psicofármacos na Índia: Pensando Eating Drugs, de Ecks.” CAMPOS: 119-128. 10.5380/campos.v15i1.43196 |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2014). Estética do Acaso: Um estudo antropológico sobre a dinâmica estética e econômica na Vila Chocolatão. Cadernos IHU: 1-58. |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2013). “Um documentário revisitado: 555 Chocolatão.” Revista Iluminuras: 177-187. |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2012). “Dorotheen, um cemitério: os ritos de destituição pensados em Berlim.” Habitus: 73-82. |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2011). “O Gosto Popular e a Estética do Acaso." Revista Todavia: 56-70. |
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Book |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2017). Por Onde Vivem os Mortos: O processo de fabricação da morte e da pessoa morta no complexo funerário de Porto Alegre. Porto Alegre, Editora da UFRGS. |
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Book chapter |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2021) “Chronic Living in Zombieland: Care in Between Survival and Death”. In: Montesi, Laura; Calestani, Melania (eds.) ‘Managing chronicity in unequal States: Ethnographic perspectives on caring’. London: UCL Press. |
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Andrade Neves, M./Baltag, Tereza. (2019). “Dealing with Illness and Dying”. In: Stodulka, Dinkelaker, Thajib (eds.) ‘Affective Dimensions of Fieldwork and Ethnography’. New York: Springer. |
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Blog post |
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Andrade Neves, M. (2016). “Living Within Assisted Suicide: Drawing a Landscape and its Transnational Movements.” Medizinethnologie: Körper, Gesundheit und Heilung in einer Globalisierten Welt. |
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Documentary films |
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Torotama: Quando os mortos não têm vez (Torotama: A Grave Matter) — Director — 2014 Available at: https://vimeo.com/257596122 |
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A Literatura Vista Daqui - Porto Alegre/Berlin — Director — 2014 Available at: https://vimeo.com/85663409 |
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A Literatura Vista Daqui - Glasgow/Berlin — Director — 2013 Available at: https://vimeo.com/58213864 |
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555 Chocolatão — Director — 2012 Available at: https://vimeo.com/53478134 |
