Biography

João Kelmer is an anthropologist whose research focuses on mourning and temporality among Indigenous peoples in lowland South America. Based on extensive ethnographic fieldwork with the Boe, an Indigenous group from Central Brazil, his work examines how ritual aesthetics shape experiences of time and memory, fostering reflexive reimaginings of collective life.

Previous Education

Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Social Anthropology 2021
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Social Sciences 2019