https://www.michaelamoruso.com/home daily 1.0 2026-03-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/1361d7ad-c1ce-4a16-b803-64d4bddff8a1/faculty_photo.jpg https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/03bcad8b-9c13-46de-8d14-85021a9e638a/cover.jpg https://www.michaelamoruso.com/about daily 0.75 2025-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/e72d6257-9a5d-4c39-a7bd-48b194c050d6/DSCF1570.JPG https://www.michaelamoruso.com/photography daily 0.75 2025-11-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/0656fedf-f9d8-406b-b605-75739cbbc5d6/DSCF1630.JPG Fieldwork Photos The Chapel of the Afflicted, taken during a walking tour with O que te assombra? (What Haunts You?), March 2023. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/1d5cbf6a-cbe4-4c2f-ab3c-e123882ed67e/DSCF1581.JPG Fieldwork Photos Edificio Joelma, taken during a walking tour with O que te assombra (What Haunts You?), March 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/9f528054-3beb-4ccd-ac7d-81543ed704be/DSCF2285.JPG Fieldwork Photos The Church of the Holy Cross of the Souls of the Hanged, July 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/52b6b909-659c-4da9-a9c7-672139e281f7/DSCF2308.JPG Fieldwork Photos Divination and flower stands outside the Church of the Hanged, July 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/327550ae-2326-4b69-88c1-e467c4dfb9eb/DSCF1448.JPG Fieldwork Photos The Door of Chaguinhas in the Chapel of the Afflicted, February 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/a500fcb1-6a51-4f41-b4ce-47718f3ae17b/DSC_0800+2.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Wall of future memorial site next to the Chapel of the Afflicted, December 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/168c5407-9d2e-4e05-9bb4-238183f262bc/DSC_0779.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Wall of future memorial site next to the Chapel of the Afflicted, December 2021. Text reads "Many black people were buried here" and "Black memory" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/76ef14df-cb32-4682-aefb-eeb9c748b809/DSCF2322.JPG Fieldwork Photos Ex voto commissioned by a devotee for Chaguinhas in the Chapel of the Afflicted, July 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/3920f7dc-8794-4cce-870e-320dd32451ab/DSC_0206.jpeg Fieldwork Photos The Door of Chaguinhas during anniversary mass for Chaguinhas's death, September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/e893faa6-4fb0-427f-ba00-1ba804cb6723/DSC_0427.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Funeral cortege in memory of Chaguinhas, September 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/59fdffbc-4658-45f2-8ca3-65838d77f79b/DSC_0492.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Funeral cortege in memory of Chaguinhas, September 2021. Pictured in the foreground is the artist, composer, and activist Aloysio Letra https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/9b2d142a-3faf-44c4-b52e-12385ed36bfd/DSCF1506.JPG Fieldwork Photos Practice session for Carnaval, Moocidade Unidade da Mooca, "The Black Saint of Liberty," February 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/fa5d980f-ca02-47dd-a5e6-af62a4167a0e/IMG_3575.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Repairs to Carnaval floats after heavy rains, February 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/ada24131-fc0c-472e-b869-6bf8e6ee3f55/IMG_3683.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Carnaval floats for Moocidade Unidade da Mooca, "The Black Saint of Liberty," February 2023 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/356f474d-4707-4e37-aaa9-f715583141c3/DSCF2129.JPG Fieldwork Photos Cross at the Shrine of the Thirteen Souls, Cemitério São Pedro, March 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/73dfc081-35b3-40ee-b157-9798fe570567/DSCF2132.JPG Fieldwork Photos Ex votos at the Shrine of the Thirteen Souls, Cemitério São Pedro, March 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/c4d68890-9dc3-4a20-aa49-d62d93eaba0b/DSCF2137.JPG Fieldwork Photos Replica of Christ the Redeemer statue (Rio de Janeiro) at the Shrine of the Thirteen Souls, Cemitério São Pedro, March 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/92ed889d-cc33-48a2-83c8-97220431f52a/DSCF2175.JPG Fieldwork Photos Chapel at the Shrine of the Thirteen Souls, Cemitério São Pedro, March 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/e8693325-52f4-419c-ba2d-eb4f10a18503/DSCF2158.JPG Fieldwork Photos Detail of tomb at the Shrine of the Thirteen Souls, Cemitério São Pedro, March 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/32696543-fa4d-4b15-85db-f530f5ecbd46/DSC_0041.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Ex votos tied to the fence of the Shrine of the Thirteen Souls, Cemitério São Pedro, July 2019. The marble ex votos had been cleared https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/d2ae7681-fd2f-4792-a92c-5a4dae40c481/DSC_0039.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Shrine of the Thirteen Souls, Cemitério São Pedro, July 2019. Note that the tombs' granite slabs had replaced, and the Christ the Redeemer statue damaged https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/346eea11-8d35-40b9-a3fd-76d6670ffd0f/DSC_0405.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Rua Galvão Bueno, Liberdade, January 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/172916c7-daad-4c63-bf33-0dce3617ae2d/DSCF2087.JPG Fieldwork Photos Sign at Cemitério Consolação reading, "Be intelligent and think. Would you eat or give your children: raw meat, raw poultry, food and drink thrown on the floor? Of course not. Why do you then insist on offering [these things] to the saints?" March 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/8d3f7cd2-7e87-4bdb-abda-15a812c70b32/DSCF2219.JPG Fieldwork Photos Offering at the Sanctuary of the Souls, March 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/7ec6a99d-fdff-4ba8-b84d-bae14660f3b7/DSC_0338.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Festa da Santa Cruz, the Church of the Holy Cross of the Souls of the Hanged, September 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/42ce3389-b983-4524-a5e3-1984a7b8810c/DSC_0223.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Festa da Santa Cruz, the Church of the Holy Cross of the Souls of the Hanged, September 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/d3f6b7cd-246c-47b4-9d56-d1c086edc13f/DSCF1956.JPG Fieldwork Photos Estação da Sé, February 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/9cc1d76d-3513-4787-9c7d-9bfc331f9f93/DSC_0037.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Ex votos for the souls at the Church of St. Ephigenia and Elesbaan, Rio de Janeiro, January 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/cfef52b2-b0f9-4077-8015-492f9bb15934/DSC_0169.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Candle room at the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men, Rio de Janeiro, January 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/13493a31-81df-400c-a988-96294ba440a9/DSC_0147.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Procession from nave to candle room at the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men, Rio de Janeiro, January 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67f95b5e3d52ee6ec5d5d009/3bcb202b-2a64-499f-b2f8-d7aa9968c66f/DSC_0102.jpeg Fieldwork Photos Wax ex votos for sale at the Church of Our Lady of the Rosary of Black Men, Rio de Janeiro, January 2018 https://www.michaelamoruso.com/writing daily 0.75 2025-11-17