Biography

Henrique Entratice is a PhD candidate in Anthropology at NOVA FCSH and ISCTE-IUL. He has been an integrated researcher at the IHC since May 2021, after being ranked first among all candidates in the International PhD Scholarship Competition (2020).

He obtained his Law degree from Mackenzie Presbyterian University, where he conducted in-depth research on the challenges related to legal anthropology, cultural rights, and Brazilian intangible cultural heritage. In 2017, he moved to Portugal to pursue a Master’s in Entrepreneurship and Cultural Studies at ISCTE-IUL, specialising in Cultural Management. His dissertation, “Preservation of Brazilian Intangible Cultural Heritage: Decision-Making in Three Brazilian Cases”, was presented in 2019.

In Brazil, he has worked as Head of Office for the São Paulo City Museum, the São Paulo Historical Archive, and the Pavilion of Brazilian Cultures, institutions linked to the São Paulo Municipal Department of Culture. In Portugal, he worked as a communications assistant for the Alkantara Festival in Lisbon.

In 2024, Henrique Entratice was selected as one of the fellows of TheMuseumsLab 2024 Scholarship, a programme coordinated by the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin and the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).

His research interests include cultural rights, public policies for the preservation of intangible cultural heritage, the colonial displacements of Latin American Indigenous materialities, and the development of collaborative research. He conducts his research in partnership with the Anthropological Museum of the Federal University of Goiás, Brazil.

Research fields

• Intangible cultural heritage
• Cultural rights
• Legal anthropology
• Colonial transits

Selected publications

• Entratice, Henrique, “Apropriação Cultural e a Juridificação do Patrimônio Cultural Imaterial: as tomadas de decisão no caso da Cajuína,” in Vinte anos do Decreto de Registro do Patrimônio Cultural Imaterial Brasileiro, edited by Inês Virgínia Prado Soares and Youssef Campos. São Paulo: Juspodivm, 2020.
• Entratice, Henrique. “Preservação do patrimônio cultural imaterial Brasileiro: Tomada de decisão (decision-making) em três casos Brasileiros.” Msc Thesis, ISCTE-IUL, 2019. [PDF]
• Entratice, Henrique. “A Tutela Jurídica do Patrimônio Cultural Imaterial Brasileiro.” Bsc Thesis, Mackenzie Presbyterian University, 2016.

Main projects

• “To Survive in Museological Confinement: Karajá Dolls, Cultural Diplomacy, and the Xambioá Resistance” (working title) — PhD thesis to be presented to the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, supervised by Paula Godinho (NOVA FCSH) and Ema Pires (University of Évora). Individual PhD project funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (UI/BD/150942/2021). 2020-