Mateus Oka

Mateus Oka was a Visiting Predoctoral Fellow in the Department of Knowledge Systems and Collective Life (KSCL) and is a doctoral student in Social Anthropology at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP, São Paulo, Brazil) (March 2022 – expected June 2027). Mateus’s research project examines relations of labor and knowledge production among primatologists, capuchin monkeys, non-academic field experts, and their families. His research is funded by the São Paulo Research Foundation (FAPESP) (grant no. 22/03361-3). He is also a researcher with “Metis – Arts and Semantics of Creation and Memory” (FAPESP grant no. 20/07886-8) and with the Research Centre for Indigenous Ethnology (CEPEI) at UNICAMP. In Department KSCL, he was part of the Primates and Primatology Reading Group.