Accreditations
Tuition fee EU nationals (2025/2026)
In addition to the Curricular Units listed below, its mandatory the enrollment each semester, in 1 Optional Curricular Unit from another course.
Optional course units have a limited number of places and will only be held if they achieve a minimum number of enrollments.
Programme Structure for 2025/2026
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Themes in Anthropology
6.0 ECTS
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Anthropological Theory
6.0 ECTS
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Outline of Project in Anthropology
12.0 ECTS
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Project
12.0 ECTS
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Methodoloy and Project Design in Anthropology
6.0 ECTS
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Anthropological Debates
6.0 ECTS
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Thesis in Anthropology
180.0 ECTS
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Themes in Anthropology
LG1 - As in Anthropological Debates, knowledge of the different themes of research in contemporary Anthropology, but now taking into account the main areas of the students? research projects (which have been established in the 1st semester)
LG2 - Perception of the diversity of anthropological production according to contexts, theories, methods and interdisciplinary approaches, taking into account the main areas of the students? projects as defined in the 1st semester.
S1 - First Module: Forms of Social Differentiation
- Gender as a category of social differentiation
- Class as a category of social differentiation
- Intersectionalities
- Identity and Ethnicity: Transnationalism and Diaspora
- (in) security
- Anthropology in education
S2 - Second Module: Cities and Culture
- To live, to visit, to be excluded: cities and identity dynamics
- Cities and Mobility
- Cities and artistic practices
- Cities and nature
Asseement troughout the semester
- For each class, there will be 1 required reading text
- Participation in class discussions - 20% x 2 modules = 40%.
- Essay designed on one of the thematic modules, preferably the one that most relates to the student's thesis theme - 60%.
Segal, Daniel & Sylvia Yanagisako (eds.). 2005, Unrwapping the Sacred Bundle. Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology. Durham: Duke UP
Sassen , Saskia. 2014. Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy. Cambridge (MA) & London: Belknap Press of Harvard UP
Ost David, 2015 "Class and social order: political consequences of the move from class to culture.? In Goddard, Victoria and Narotzky (ed) Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism. New York. Routledge: 64-78
Crenshaw, Kimberle (1991) Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review Vol. 43 (6): 1241-1299
Ingold, Tim. 2011. Being Alive, Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. London: Routledge.
Hannerz, Ulf. 2016. Writing Future Worlds: An Anthropologist Explores Global Scenarios. London: Palgrave
Eriksen, Thomas H. 2015. Small Places, Large Issues. London:Pluto Press
Appadurai, Arjun. 2013. The Future as Cultural Fact. London: Verso
Zukin, S. (1995), The Cultures of Cities. Oxford, Blackwell.
Steven Vertovec (2001) Transnationalism and identity, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 27:4, 573-582
Simmel, G., 1997, A Metrópole e a Vida do espírito, in Fortuna, C., Cidade, cultura e globalização, Oeiras, Celta, pp. 31-43
Silvano, F., (2015). Musées et casinos dans une ville « Patrimoine Mondial » : authenticité et hyperréalité, deux formes culturelles de l?espace urbain de Macao. Fagnoni, E. and Gravari-Barbas (org.) Nouveaux musées, nouvelles ères urbaines, nouvelles pratiques touristiques, Presses de l´Université Laval.
Segal, Daniel & Sylvia Yanagisako (eds.). 2005, Unrwapping the Sacred Bundle. Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology. Durham: Duke UP
Schiller. N.G. and Ayse Çag?lar (2009), Towards a Comparative Theory of Locality in Migration Studies: Migrant Incorporation and City Scale, Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies Vol. 35, No. 2, February 2009, pp. 177- 202?
Sassen , Saskia. 2014. Expulsions: Brutality and Complexity in the Global Economy. Cambridge (MA) & London: Belknap Press of Harvard UP
Piscitelli, Adriana 1998 Género em perspectiva cadernos pagu (11) 1998: pp.141-155
Ost David, 2015 "Class and social order: political consequences of the move from class to culture.? In Goddard, Victoria and Susana Narotzky (ed.s) Industry and Work in Contemporary Capitalism .Global models, local lives?New York. Routledge: 64-78
KARSTEDT, SUSANNE 2001 ?Comparing cultures, comparing crime: Challenges, prospects and problems for a global criminology? Crime, Law & Social Change 36: 285?308
Ingold, Tim. 2018. Anthrhopoogy and/as Education, New York: Routlege
Ingold, Tim. 2011. Being Alive, Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description. London: Routledge.
Inês Lourenço & Rita Cachado (2018) The Role of Diu in the Hindu-Gujarati Diaspora in Portugal, South Asian Studies, 34:1, 47-56
Harper, Krista and Ana Isabel Afonso, 2016, Cultivating Civic Ecology - A Photovoice Study with Urban Gardeners in Lisbon, Portugal Anthropology in Action, 23, no. 1 (Spring): 6?13, Berghahn Books and the Association for Anthropology in Action.
Hannerz, Ulf. 2016. Writing Future Worlds: An Anthropologist Explores Global Scenarios. London: Palgrave
Frois, Catarina 2016 ?Close insecurity: shifting conceptions of security in prison confinement? in Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale (2016) 0,01?15
Eriksen, Thomas H. 2015. Small Places, Large Issues: An Introduction to Social and Cultural Anthropology. London:Pluto Press
Crenshaw, Kimberle (1991) Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color. Stanford Law Review Vol. 43 (6): 1241-1299
CREHAN, K., 2011, Community Art. An Anthropological Perspective, London, New York, Berg, pp. 3-25; 181-196
BESERRA, Bernadete2015. Da antropologia da educação a uma didática antropológica. In REUNIÃO DE ANTROPÓLOGOS DO NORTE E NORDESTE, 14, Maceió. Anais... Maceió: Edufal
Appadurai, Arjun. 2013. The Future as Cultural Fact: Essays on the Global Condition. London: Verso
Anthropological Theory
LG1 - Advanced training in the main contemporary theoretical debates
LG2 - Development of analytical and theoretical competence
LG3 - Building capacity to ellaborate states of the art
LG4 - Develop critical analytical skills
1. ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY. AN ASSESSMENT
2. COSMOLOGIES, SUBJECTS, RELATIONSHIPS.
Modes of social production, Agencies, Alterity and Ontologies. Ethnographies of the future.
3. EXPERIENCE, THEORY, ETHNOGRAPHY, METHOD.
Theory, ethnography and methodology. Theoretical approach and analytical approach.
4. FROM THEMES TO PROBLEMS
Exploration of the relationship between objects and fields of study, and theoretical constructions. Future, anthropocene, affections.
5. THEORY, ETHNOGRAPHY, METHOD
Method and theory, or the relationship between anthropology and ethnography.
6. ANALYSIS, COMPARISON, EVIDENCE
Categories, classifications and their implications for people. The notion of evidence.
Students must read the reference texts indicated for the sessions. Students must choose one of the texts contained in the bibliography to be presented in the respective class and make an oral presentation and written essay around the text, including a summary and problematization (interesting points and critical points). The individual presentation at the seminar (15 minutes) must be accompanied by a summary of the text that must not exceed three pages (TNR, body 12, 1.5 line spaces, bibliography included). The presentation and summary (30%) and participation in discussions (10%) constitute evaluation elements of the seminar.
At the end of the semester, an individual final essay must be presented (10 TNR pages, body 12, 1.5 line spaces, bibliography included) which must discuss and deepen the most comprehensive themes covered in the seminar and can be carried out depending on the particular research interests of the student. You must use at least six bibliographic references contained in the seminar bibliography (60% of the final grade). The deadline for submitting the final essay is January 10, 2025.
Bibliografia de referência e consulta/Reference and consultation references:
CANDEA, M. 2017. Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory. London & New York: Routledge.
ERIKSEN, T.H. 2004. What is Anthropology?. London: Pluto Press.
MOORE, H. L., & T. SANDERS (eds). 2014. Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons.
ZEITLYN, D., 2022. An Anthropological Toolkit: Sixty Useful Concepts. Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books
VV.AA. The Sage handbook of Social Anthropology.
Bibliografia de leitura obrigatória para as aulas/Compulsory reading for the lectures:
ABU-LUGHOD, L., 1991, “Writing Against Culture” in Fox, R. (ed.), Recapturing Anthropology. Working in the Present, Santa Fe, School of American Research Press, pp. 137-162.
AHMED, Sara. 2004. “Affective Economies.” Social Text 22 (2): 117–39.
APPADURAI, A, 2013, The Future as Cultural Fact. Essays on the Global Condition, London, Verso, pp. 285-300.
BLOCH, M., 2008, “Truth and Sight: Generalizing without Universalizing”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (N.S.): S22-S32.
BLOCH, M., 2017, “Anthropology is an odd subject”, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7(1): 33-43.
BRYANT, R. and KNIGHT, D., 2019, The Anthropology of the Future, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp.1-20.
COL, G da and GRAEBER D., 2011, “Foreword. The Return of Ethnographic Theory”, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 1(1): vi-xxxv.
CANDEA, M., 2016 “On two modalities of comparison in social anthropology”, L’Homme, 218(2)
CANDEA, M., 2018. Comparison in Anthropology: The Impossible Method. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
CROSSLAND, Z., 2009, “Of Clues and Signs: The Dead Body and its Evidential Traces”, American Anthropologist 111(1): 69-80.
DAVIS, J., A. A. MOULTON, L.VAN SANT, and B. WILLIAMS. 2019. “Anthropocene, Capitalocene, … Plantationocene?: A Manifesto for Ecological Justice in an Age of Global Crises.” Geography Compass 13 (5): e12438.
DESCOLA, P., 2004 (1996), “Constructing natures: symbolic ecology and social practice” in Descola, P. e Palsson, G. Eds. Nature and Society: Anthropological Perspectives, Londres, Routledge, pp. 82-102.
ENGELKE, M, 2008, “The Objects of Evidence”, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (N.S.): S1-S21.
FABIAN, J., 2012, “Cultural Anthropology and the question of knowledge”, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 18(2): 439-453.
GOOD, A., 2008, “Cultural Evidence in the Courts of Law”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (N.S.): S47-S60.
GRAEBER, D., 2015. “Radical alterity is just another way of saying “reality”
A reply to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro”, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5(2): 1–41.
HARVEY, P., C. KROHN-HANSEN, and K. NUSTAD. 2019. “Introduction”. In Anthropos and the Material. Durham: Duke University Press.
HOLMES, S., 2013, Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies: Migrant Farmworkers in the United States, Berkeley, California University Press, pp. 45-87.HOWELL, S., 2017, “Two or Three things I love about ethnography”, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7(1): 15-20.
INDA, J. Ed. 2005. Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality and Life Politics, London, Blackwell, pp. 1-11.
INGOLD, T., 2008, “Anthropology is not ethnography”, Proceedings of the British Academy,154: 69-92.
INGOLD, T., 2014, “That’s enough about ethnography”, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 4(1): 383-395.
KEANE, W., 2006. “Subjects and objects: introduction” in Tilley, et al. Eds. Handbook of Material Culture, Londres, Sage, pp. 197-202.
LATOUR, B., 2005, Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 27-42.
LATOUR, B., 2005, Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 63-86.
MARTIN, Emily. 2013. “The Potentiality of Ethnography and the Limits of Affect Theory.” Current Anthropology 54 (S7): S149–58.
MOORE, A. 2015. “Anthropocene anthropology: reconceptualizing contemporary global change.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 22 (1): 27–46.
NADER, L., 2011, “Ethnography as theory”, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 1(1): 211-219.
NAVARO-YASHIN, Yael. 2006. “Affect in the Civil Service: A Study of a Modern State-System.” Postcolonial Studies 9 (3): 281–94.
NAVARO-YASHIN, Y., 2009. “Affective Spaces, Melancholic Objects: Ruination and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge”, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 15(1): 1-18.
ORTNER, S. 1984. “Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties”, Comparative Studies in Society and History 26(1): 126-166.
ORTNER, S. 2016. “Dark Anthropology and Its Others: Theory since the Eighties”, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6(1): 47–73.
ORTNER, S., 2006, “Power and Projects. Reflections on Agency”, Anthropology and Social Theory: Culture, Power and the Acting Subject, Durham, Duke University Press, pp. 129-153.
PIOT, C., 2010, Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War, pp. 77-95.
RITA RAMOS, A., 2012. “The politics of perspectivism”, Annual Review of Anthropology 41: 481-494.
ROSENGREN, D., S. PERMANTO, and A. BURMAN. 2023. “The Anthropocene Narrative and Amerindian Lifeworlds: Anthropos, Agency, and Personhood.” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 29 (4): 840–58.
RUTHERFORD, Danilyn. 2016. “Affect Theory and the Empirical.” Annual Review of Anthropology 45 (Volume 45, 2016): 285–300.
SEGATO, R. L. 2015. “Introducción: Colonialidad del Poder y Antropología por Demanda”. In La Crítica de la Colonialidad en Ocho Ensayos. Buenos Aires: Prometeo, pp. 11-34.
TSING, A., et al. 2017. “Introduction: Haunted Landscapes of the Anthropocene”. In Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
TSING, A., 2005, Friction. An Ethnography of Global Connections, Princeton, Princeton University Press, pp. 1-18 e 27-50.
VAN DER VEER, P., 2016, The Value of Comparison. Durham & London, Duke University Press.
VAN DER VEER, P., 2014 “The Value of Comparison”, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 7(1), 2-13. Book symposium on The Value of Comparison, HAU 7 (1): 509-536.
VIVEIROS DE CASTRO, E. 2004. “Perspectivismo e multinaturalismo na América indígena”, O Que Nos Faz Pensar 18: 225-254
VIVEIROS DE CASTRO, E. 2017. “Who is afraid of the ontological wolf ? some comments on an ongoing anthropological debate”, The Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 33(1): 2-17.
Outline of Project in Anthropology
LG1 - Definition of the research object
LG2 - Definition of the research problem
LG3 - Definition of the theoretical framework of the research
S1 - Discussion of the projects submitted in the application to the doctoral Programme
S2 - Formulation of a new version of the projects following the teacher?s critique
S3 - Workshop on project deconstruction, counterfactuality, and alternative hypothesis
S4 - Elaboration of new version of the projects after the workshop
S5 - Exposure to 2nd year doctoral students, sharing of experiences following project implementation
S6 - Individual presentations of the projects and collective debate.
- Progress along the semester amounts to 40% of the evaluation
- Final presentation of the project status at the end of the semester amounts to 60% of the evaluation
Não se aplica, dada a natureza do seminário
Não se aplica
Project
LG1 - Project consists in a public defense, with an evaluation committee, of the thesis project created in the Project CUs of the 1st and 2nd semester, and it takes place at the end of the latter. During the semestre each student will meet once with one of the course directors for supervision.
ProgramS - Research Project for a Thesis in Anthropology
Evaluation processEvaluation: by a committee composed of the Programme Director, the Supervisor, and an External Member.
BibliographyNão se aplica
Methodoloy and Project Design in Anthropology
LG1 - Improvement of the Project
LG2 - Development of methodological knowledge and its application to the Project
LG3 - Conclusion of Project, enabling it for public defense
S1 - Revision of Project with the contribution of the supervisor (chosen/confirmed between the 1st and 2nd semestres)
S2 - Updating of methodological knowledge
S3 - Version of Project with the inclusion of the methodological approaches
S4 - Individual presentation of Project in seminar
- Lectures on Methodology, with a discussion of readings - 40% of the evaluation.
- Revised projects, including methodology and preparation for public defense - 60% of the evaluation.
Robben, A. & J. Sluka (orgs.). 2007. Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader. Oxford: Blackwell
Marcus, George. 1998 (1995). Ethnography Through Thick and Thin. Princeton: Princeton University Press
Dresch, P. & J. Parkin, (orgs.). 2000. Anthropologists in a Wider World. Oxford: Berghahn Books.
Denzin, N. & Y. Lincoln. (orgs.). 2011. The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks: Sage
Anthropological Debates
LG1 - Knowledge of the difference themes of research in contemporary Anthropology
LG2 - Perception of the diversity of anthropological production according to context, theory, methodology and interdisciplinarity
LG3 - Exercising the ability to formulate critical judgement on the research results of other scholars
LG4 - Formulate new research questions based on the research od other scholars
LG5 - Ability to produce critical readings and synthesis of research elements and/or results
LG6 - Ability to operationalise concepts and theoretical frameworks from research elements and/or results
The course is divided into 2 modules with sub-topics:
CP1 - Critical anthropology, uses of time, futurity (Paula Godinho, 6 sessions)
1. Indigenous critique, contamination, coevalness, presentism, retrotopia
2. Patrimonial regimes: fetishism, commodification, iconoclasm, anti-heritage, commons
3. The future as a cultural fact
4. Colonialism, colonialities, decolonialities, necropolitics.
5. Struggles for memory and inscription: anti-racism, decolonialities, anti-museum, and post-museum
CP2 - Anthropology, Crisis, Ecology (Antonio Maria Pusceddu, 6 sessions)
a. Crisis as space and time for anthropological reflection
b. Climate crisis and the Anthropocene: the return of grand narratives?
c. The end of the world, “cultural apocalypses,” and ecological catastrophe: old debates, new horizons
d. Surviving, coexisting, transforming: whither anthropology?
The following assessment instruments will be used:
Each student will submit a written essay on one of the topics covered in conjunction with their research project - 70.0%.
Class attendance, informed participation and preparation of a question to ask one of the guests: 30.0%.
There is no exam
DE MARTINO, Ernesto (2023) The End of the World: Cultural Apocalypse and Transcendence (tradução: Dorothy L. Zinn). Chicago: Chicago University Press.
GRAEBER, David; WENGROW, David (2021) The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity, London, Penguin Books.
MOORE, Jason W. ed. (2016). Anthropocene or Capitalocene? Nature, History, and the Crisis of Capitalism. Detroit: PM Press.
NAROTZKY, Susana and Niko BESNIER (2014) Crisis, value, and hope: Rethinking the economy. Current Anthropology 55 (S9): S4–S16.
VALENCIA, Guadalupe; GUITIÁN, Monica; CONTRERAS, Raúl, ed. (2023) Futuros en disputa. Las narrativas sobre el porvenir, Ciudad de Mexico, UNAM.
Objectives
• Provide in-depth theoretical, conceptual and methodological tools for the study of Anthropology;
• Provide the necessary conditions for the debate of fundamental themes adequate for an advanced level of training;
• Develop critical reflexive capacities;
• Supply the competencies required for research;
• Train students for the development of independent work.
• Capacity to research independently;
• Ability to debate complex issues developing the capacity of synthesis;
• Apprehend concepts, theories and methodologies inherent to the development of research in Anthropology;
• Articulate the contributions from Anthropology to other disciplines;
• Capacity to present clearly and coherently complex intellectual problems orally and in writing;
• Ability to carry out documental research, fieldwork and;
• Understand and relate complex phenomena in diverse social and geographical contexts.