SOCIOCULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

CLASSICS + MUSIC

my education and professional credentials

PhD Ethnographic Project

Spree: Shetland's Epistemological Tradition of Music Making

EDUCATION

Where and when I studied and which degrees I got

DEGREES

2017,  PhD, Social Anthropology, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.

2010, Master of Arts, Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

2006, Bachelor of Arts, Classics (Latin focus), University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

2006, Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

ETHNOGRAPHIC PROJECTS

(2012-14) Music-Making in Shetland: Mobilities, Diversity, Social Relations and the Technologies of Performance. University of Aberdeen, Social Anthropology PhD fieldwork project. University of Aberdeen Ethics Board certified, 2012.

(2009) Representing and Performing Brazilian Culture in Vancouver: Capoeira, Music and Canadianness. Human Geography research project. UBC Behavioral Research Ethics Board certified (Nov. 9th 2009).

(2007) The impacts of development on traditional hunting and fishing practices. Graduate Ethnographic Fieldwork Training: North West British Columbia coast, Dolphin Island, among the Tsimshian.

PhD Ethnographic Project

Spree: Shetland's Epistemological Tradition of Music Making

UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY

(2010) Journalists for Human Rights at UBC

Vice President, External. 

(2007-2009) Alma Mater Society at UBC

Student Councillor, UBC Graduate Student Society.

(2008-2009) Campus and Community Planning at UBC

Student Representation, Vancouver Campus Plan Steering Committee.

(2007-2008) Graduate Student Society at UBC

Student Councillor, UBC Anthropology Graduate Students Association.

AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS

(2014) A Creative Enlightenment: A Unique Programme for Enterprising Researchers from the Arts and Humanities.

University of Strathclyde, Scotland, UK.

(2009) International Partial Tuition Scholarship

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 

(2008) International Partial Tuition Scholarship

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 

(2007) International Partial Tuition Scholarship

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 

(2006) International Partial Tuition Scholarship

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 

(2004) German Government Book Prize

University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 

(2003) Humanities Dean’s List, Spring

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. 

(2002) Humanities Dean’s List, Spring 

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. 

(2001) Humanities Dean’s List, Fall 

University of Utah, Salt Lake City, USA. 

WORK EXPERIENCE

Some of the work I have done over the years

WORK EXPERIENCE

(2023-) Creator, writer, musical producer, artist, Edonguera.eu

(2018-) Invited Professor, International Researcher, Universidade Metropolitana de Santos, Santos SP, Brazil.

(2016-) Co-creator, Partner, Designer, Cultural Translator. O Segredo da Música com Sandro Haick. www.osegredodamusica.com.br.

Rodrigo invented and designed ‘The Secret of Music Playing Cards’, and helped to develop didactic games and applications for music learning, teaching, improvising and and composing. https://www.osegredodamusica.com.br/baralho.

(2015) Postdoctoral Researcher: How Classicists and Ancient Historians Employ Social Science Theory. History Institute, Universitëit Leiden, The Netherlands.

(2012) Teaching Assistant, SX1501: Humans and Other Animals, with Dr. Andrew Whitehouse. University of Aberdeen, UK.

(2008) Vice-President, Student Services (elected by graduate students), UBC Graduate Student Society. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 

(2008) Teaching Assistant,  ANTH 200, Anthropological Theory, with Dr. Alexia Bloch. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 

(2007) Teaching Assistant,  ANTH 353, The Ethnography of Latin America, with Prof. Gastón Gordillo. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 

(2006) Teaching Assistant,
ANTH 300, Anthropological Theory, with Dr. Heiko Henkel. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. 

PUBLICATIONS

Some stuff I wrote

2020, Intergenerational integration and the quality of life of the elderly in Shetland, a Scottish community. In: Angelina Zanesco, Ana Luiza Cabrera Martimbianco, Elaine Marcilio dos Santos, Luiz Antonio Rizzato Nunes, Yára D. Fragoso. (Org.). Longevidade, sociedade e envelhecimento saudável. 1 ed. Santos: UNIMES, 2020, v. 1, p. 243-260.

2016, SPREE: Shetland’s Epistemological Tradition of Music Making. Ph.D. Thesis. University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK. Archived at The British Library. Visual ethnography database: British Library PDF. 

2015, Creativity. GRAPA: Grup de Recerca en Antropologia i Pràctiques Artístiques, Barcelona.

2011, Indigeneity and consciousness in Brazil: Analyzing Sousa (1587) and Mendes Jr. (1912). Critique of Anthropology (Sept. 2011), Vol. 31, No. 3, pp. 185-209. https://tinyurl.com/y84s9pnm.

2009, Ontological oppression and the privatization of public potential: indigenous counter- hegemony in São Paulo, Brazil. Master Thesis. University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. http://hdl.handle.net/2429/17467

2009, University 101: Participatory Action Research and Institutional Evolution. The Graduate Magazine, April 2009, pp. 12-13. Vancouver: UBC Graduate Student Society.

2009, Mining for Graduates at the Student Union Building. The Graduate Magazine, Jan., 2009, pp. 6-7. Vancouver: UBC Graduate Student Society.

2008, UBC Farm and the Vancouver Campus Plan ‘Consultations’. The People’s Guide to UBC, Vol. 3, Issue 1, Oct(2008), pp. 44-45. Vancouver: The Knoll Publications.

2008, Getting Involved with Student Government. The Graduate Magazine, Sept(2008), pp. 2-3 and 27-29. Vancouver: UBC Graduate Student Society.

2008, Terra e Carne. Original Poetry in Brazilian Portuguese. Ebook.

2004, O Evangelho de Hermas. Translation of Apocryphal Scripture from Koiné Greek to Portuguese. São Paulo: Mirta.

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Stuff I presented in academic conferences

(2021) The philosophy of old age in antiquity: Ciceros dialogue On Old Age (De Senectute). UNIMES EPIC interdisciplinary conference 2021. Santos, SP, Brazil. 

(2019) The Burden of Non-Misrepresentation. FE Convention, Amsterdam Library, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 

(2019) Global Agendas: Rumors, Resistance and Alternatives. Panel co-convener, with Inayat Ali (University of Vienna) and Anne Decobert (University of Melbourne). ASA 2019: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges. University of East Anglia, UK. 

(2019) Global unquestionable and globe skeptics: aporia or scientific revolution. ASA 2019: Anthropological Perspectives on Global Challenges. University of East Anglia, UK. 

(2018) The Resonance of Gratitude in Creative Practice and the Spiritual Wisdom of Indigenous Ways of Knowing: a Call for an Enchanted Anthropology. ASA 2018: Sociality, matter, and the imagination: re-creating Anthropology. University of Oxford, UK.

(2018) Learning Music as a Game: Resisting the Creative and Socioeconomic Crisis in Brazil with Education and Invention. ASA 2018: Sociality, matter, and the imagination: re-creating Anthropology. University of Oxford, UK.

(2018) Understanding the Rise of the 21st Century ‘Flat Earth’ Movement From a Bundle of Popular Conspiracy Theories and Science Skepticism. 15th EASA Biennial Conference: Staying, Moving, Settling. Stockholm University, Sweden.

(2016) Decomposing as Recomposing: Stylistic Complementarity and Growth in Shetland. Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Conference: Footprints and futures: the time of anthropology. Durham, UK.

(2015) On Creativity”. Encountering Concepts in Art and Anthropology. European Association of Social Anthropologists, Visual Anthropology Network (VANEASA), Barcelona, Spain.

(2014) A Brazilian in Shetland: a musical trajectory through an eclectic scene.” Plenary Presentation, Young Scholars Panel, the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), 13th Biennial Conference: Collaboration, Intimacy & Revolution – innovation and continuity in an interconnected world. Tallinn University, Estonia.

(2014) Cultural Collaboration in Shetland: coping with and transcending urban-rural radical differences.” Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth, Decennial Conference: Anthropology and Enlightenment. Edinburgh, Scotland, UK.

(2013) Juxtaposition between preconception and reality within the Shetland music scene.” Royal Anthropological Institute Post Graduate Conference, University of Aberdeen, Scotland, UK.

(2009) Mining the University for Cultural Capital and Shareholder Profits: Student Recruitment, Corporate Profiteering, and the UBC Student Union Building as a Place of Identity Design. “Collaborative Dialogues: Connecting Disciplines and Communities”, UBC Anthropology Graduate Students Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

(2008) The Apathetic Grad Student – What is it really all about? Resisting the University: A conference on student activism and social change!” UBC Student Union Building.

(2008) Distinguishing Transnational Neoliberal Space from Aboriginal Place in Contemporary Brazil. “Voices: Engaging Local and Global Discourses”, UBC Anthropology Graduate Students Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

(2007) Corporate Transnationalism, Social Exclusion and Indigenous Resistance in Brazil.”Beyond Imagining Nation”, UBC Latin American Studies Graduate Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

(2007) Comparing notions of Indigeneity and Cultural Difference in Brazilian and English Social Science. UBC Anthropology Graduate Students Conference. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

SELECTED MUSICAL WORKS

Stuff I played on

(2022) Kitten on the Keys. Louise Teunissen, flutes and piano. Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes, bass. Daniel Baeder, drums. Produced by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Mixed and Mastered by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. https://artists.landr.com/692531372628

(2022) Inside of Me. Composed and produced by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. All musical instruments performed by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Mixed and Mastered by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Vocals by Makulelu. https://open.spotify.com/track/4opXBrTMwzOpLZwMtjJTvP?si=df302e536da7407d

(2022) Durum Dundum. Composed and produced by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. All musical instruments performed by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Mixed and Mastered by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Vocals by Makulelu. https://open.spotify.com/track/7owsKN3SFyMt9KFavmwrjj?si=62db3a1f817e4084

(2022) Hêra. Composed and produced by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. All musical instruments performed by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Mixed and Mastered by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Vocals by Makulelu. https://open.spotify.com/track/5QTqhoTAxt04X9c99xvqJH?si=606c9cb6978d41eb

(2022) Boleto. Composed and produced by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. All musical instruments performed by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Mixed and Mastered by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Vocals by Makulelu. https://open.spotify.com/track/1PYCobTXCsP55TZ7LnuJJs?si=23373b0fadb14d2a

(2021) Ad Tempestatem. Composed by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. All instruments performed by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Mixed and Mastered by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. https://artists.landr.com/692531260918

(2021) BWV 1013 Partita (J. S. Bach). Louise Teunissen, flute. Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes, bass and piano. Daniel Baeder, drums. Original harmony and arrangement by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Produced by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Mixed and Mastered by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. https://artists.landr.com/692531227614

(2021) Duos Dialogués (Giulio Briccialdi). Louise Teunissen, flutes. Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes, bass and piano. Daniel Baeder, drums. Produced by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Mixed and Mastered by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. https://artists.landr.com/692531197559

(2021) Zigeunerlied (Wilhelm Popp). Louise Teunissen, flutes and piano. Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes, bass. Daniel Baeder, drums. Produced by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Mixed and Mastered by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. https://artists.landr.com/692531097224

(2021) Rialto Ripples (George Gershwin). Louise Teunissen, flutes and piano. Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes, bass. Daniel Baeder, drums. Produced by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Mixed and Mastered by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. https://artists.landr.com/672985963382

(2020) Makulelu. Album – 10 songs. This is a unique musical therapy project using a technique Dr. Ferrari-Nunes invented in 2019. All musical instruments written, produced and performed by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Mixed and Mastered by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. Vocals by Makulelu. https://open.spotify.com/album/3UvBe9EGxGrH7Sb9bd4t4R

(2018) Volitação: Volitation. Produced and Recorded by Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes. With Louise Teunissen (flute) and Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes, programming. https://tinyurl.com/yc9ukk62

(2015) SpootHawk: A Good Haul. Produced by Ewan Nowak. Recorded at Mareel, Lerwick, Shetland, UK. With Ewan Nowak (guitars), Arthur Nicholson (guitars/backing vocals), Lewis Murray (drums), Joe Watt (lead vocals), Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes (bass). Listen on Spotify.  

Local review: http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2015/03/24/spoothawk-to-take-flight

(2010) HABiTUS. Recorded by Sandro Haick in São Paulo, Brazil. With Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes (bass), Sandro Haick (drums, acoustic and electric guitars, Fender rhodes, percussion), Pepe Cisneros (piano), Vinicius Dorin (alto, tenor, soprano sax, and flute) and Daniel D’Alcântara (trumpet and flugelhorn). https://tinyurl.com/y9v2ryd4

(2006) Bias Project #1. Produced and recorded by Sandro Haick and Edu Luke in São Paulo, Brazil. With Rodrigo Ferrari-Nunes (6 string bass), Sandro Haick (drums, acoustic and electric guitars, melodica, Fender rhodes, percussion), Pepe Cisneros (piano, drums), Daniel Baeder (drums), Vinicius Dorin (alto, tenor, soprano sax, and flute) and Daniel D’Alcântara (trumpet and flugelhorn). https://tinyurl.com/yb9ozm7s