Alvito, Marcos

Marcos Alvito is a Brazilian anthropologist who has researched Brazilian Popular Culture: samba, favelas (slums) and last but not least, football. He has published five books of which the most recent one is Futebol e Cinema  (Football and Cinema). In English, he has recently published the article "Our piece of the pie: Brazilian Football and Globalisation", first in Soccer and Society and now in the book  Globalised Football, Edited by Nina Clara Tiesler and Joao Nuno Coelho (London: Routledge, 2008). Marcos Alvito is founder and one of the Editors of the digital magazine Esporte e Sociedade (www.esportesociedade.com ). He is currently living in England until July 2008, writing a book about English Football Culture for the brazilian public called The Queen in Boots. Since 1984 he has been a Professor at Universidade Federal Fluminense (Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil).
 
www.opandeiro.net (personal site)
www.arainhadechuteiras.blogspot.com (The Queen in Boots site)
www.esportesociedade.com (Digital Magazine site)