Vera Lazzaretti
Vera Lazzaretti (Ph.D. in Indological and Tibetan Studies, University of Turin, 2013) is Researcher at the Centre for Research in Anthropology in Lisbon since 2021. At the University of Milan, where she graduated with honours in Philosophy in 2007, she taught the seminar "Paths of Indian sacred geography: places and traditions" from 2013 to 2015 and worked as a post-doctoral fellow from 2015 to 2017, with a project on local urban pilgrimages in Vārāṇasī. She was as well a member of the examining board for the Chair of Indology and Art History of India and Central Asia from 2010 to 2017. Vera has been carried out extensive ethnographic research in India since 2009. From 2017 Vera has principally worked as a research member or PI in international research projects at the University of Oslo (2017-2019), the South Asia Institute of the University of Heidelberg (2015-2016 and 2020-2021) and now in Portugal.
Research interests and keywords: Anthropology of space and place; religion and politics; contested heritage; securitisation and policing; inter-religious spaces; religious offence; temple politics; pilgrimage; Hindu nationalism; and ethnography.
For a list of his publications and details on his research projects, please consult Vera's current institutional profiles at the following links:
https://www.cria.org.pt/en/people/v-lazzaretti
https://ciencia.iscte-iul.pt/authors/veralazzaretti/cv