Biography

Anthropologist and Professor at the Departament of Life Sciences of the University of Coimbra, Luís Quintais has done ethnography about war and traumatic memory with ex-soldiers of the Portuguese colonial wars and also research on the archive of the Portuguese forensic psychiatry. At the University of Coimbra, he is lecturing on visual cultures, literature and anthropology, medical anthropology and cognitive anthropology. His work is published in Portuguese and international publications.