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On our third meeting, Susana de Noronha will take apart her second book Objetos Feitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte - explaining the process that lead to the finished book, from the search and collection of images to the final text, by changing the way of doing and writing social science, by mixing anthropology, art(s), emotion, informed imagination and creative writing.

Noronha, Susana de (2015) ObjetosFeitos de Cancro: mulheres, cultura material e doença nas estórias da arte, Coimbra, Almedina, Coleção CES-Almedina "Conhecimento e Instituições" nº 10.

SYNOPSIS: Objetos Feitos de Cancro [Objects Made Cancer] (dis)arranges the material culture of oncological diseases, in light of the material issues that take shape, the use and the meaning in images and texts of artistic projects created by or with women who have lived this experience. The objects are understood as bits of cancer, i.e. constituent parts of sensations, emotions, ideas and gestures that render the experience of the ill body.