Accreditations
As optativas podem ser selecionadas de entre a oferta de outros doutoramentos na NOVA FCSH ou ISCTE-IUL.
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 2024/2025
Curricular Courses | Credits | |
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Outline of Project in Anthropology
12.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 12.0 |
Anthropological Debates
6.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 6.0 |
Anthropological Theory
6.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 6.0 |
Methodoloy and Project Design in Anthropology
6.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 6.0 |
Themes in Anthropology
6.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 6.0 |
Project
12.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 12.0 |
Thesis in Anthropology
180.0 ECTS
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Thesis in Anthropology | 180.0 |
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 50% of the evaluation
- Final presentation of the project status at the end of the semester amounts to 50% of the evaluation
Title: Monografia: BOURGOIS, Philippe, 1995, In Search of Respect : Selling Crack in El Barrio. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Howard S. Becker, 2007, Writing for Social Scientists: How to Start and Finish Your Thesis, Book, or Article, Second Edition. University of Chicago Press.
James D. Faubion and George E. Marcus, eds. 2009, Fieldwork Is Not What It Used to Be: Learning Anthropology?s Method in a Time of Transition. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press.
Allaine Cerwonka and Liisa H. Malkki, 2007, Improvising Theory: Process and Temporality in Ethnographic Fieldwork. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Rivoal, Isabelle and Salazar, Noel B. 2013, ?Contemporary ethnographic practice and the value of serendipity?. Social Anthropology 21(2):178-185
Strathern, Marilyn (ed.), 2000. Audit Cultures: Anthropological Studies in Accountability, Ethics, and the Academy. London, Routledge.
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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
CP1 - The first module will introduce the debate around organizations and public anthropology. Filipe Reis and Margarida Fernandes.
CP2 - The second module analyzes climate change and its implications and the importance of primatology for understanding human evolution and adaptation. Paulo Mendes and Tânia Minhós.
CP3 - The third module will deal with the problems of subordination and peripheries. Rosa Maria Perez and Otávio Raposo.
CP4 - The fourth module will analyze forms and expressions of protest and resistance - Paulo Raposo and Margarida Fernandes.
CP5 - The fifth module presents a critical perspective on sources, records and interactions: archives, media and digital anthropology. Filipe Reis and Frederico Delgado Rosa
The student will choose one of the modules and submit a written essay, with a maximum of 3000 words, on the theme - 60.0%
a critical report with a maximum of 200 words - 30.0%
Class attendance and informed participation: 10.0%
Title: Trouillot, Michel-Rolph, 2003, Global Transformations: Anthropology and the Modern World. Nova Iorque: Palgrave. cap. 5.
Mignolo, Walter D. 2000. Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking. Princeton:Princeton University Press. cap. 4.
Crate, Susan A. 2011. ?Climate and Culture: Anthropology in the Era of Contemporary Climate Change?. Annual Review of Anthropology, 40. pp. 175?94
Castro, Laureano & Miguel A. Toro. 2004. ?The evolution of culture: From primate social learning to human culture?. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. July. 101(27). pp. 10235-10240.
Borofsky, Rob. 2019. ?Shifting the Paradigms Towards a Public Anthropology? In Rob Borofsky, An Anthropology of Anthropology. It is time to shift paradigms? Kailua: Center for a Public Anthropology. pp. 123-172.
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Title: Shore, Chris. 2011. ?Introduction?, In Chris Shore, Susan Wright & Davide Però. 2011. Policy Worlds: Anthropology and the Analysis of Contemporary Power. London: Berghahn Books. pp. 1-25.
Rosa, Frederico Delgado. 2019. ?Exhuming the Ancestors: A Reassessment of Fabian?s Critique of Allochronism?. Critique of Anthropology. Vol. 9 (4). pp. 458-477.
Raposo, Paulo. 2015. ?Artivismo?: articulando dissidências, criando insurgências?. Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia. Vol. 4, nº 2. pp. 3-12.
Raposo, Otávio. 2018. ?Guias da Periferia: usos da arte urbana num bairro precarizado de Lisboa?. In Renata Gonçalves & Lígia Ferro (Org.). Cidades em mudança: processos participativos em Portugal e no Brasil. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Mauad. pp. 127-144.
Raposo, Otávio 2010, ??Tu és rapper, representa arrentela, és red eyes gang?: Sociabilidades e estilos de vida de jovens do subúrbio de Lisboa?. Revista Sociologia, Problemas e Práticas. vol. 64. pp.127-147.
Miller, Daniel et alli. 2016. How the World Changed Social Media. London: UCL Press. pp. 1-24.
Miller, Daniel & Heather A. Horst. 2012. ?The Digital and the Human: A Prospectus for Digital Anthropology?. in Heather A. Horst & Daniel Miller. Digital Anthropology. London/New York: Berg Publishers. pp. 3-35.
Mcgranahan, Carole. 2006. ?Introduction: Public Anthropology? in: India Review, vol. 5, nos. 3?4, July/October, pp. 255?267.
Marcon, Frank, Livia Sedano & Otávio Raposo. 2018. ?Introdução ao Dossiê ?Juventudes e Músicas Digitais Periféricas??. Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia. 7(1). pp. 5-14.
Larsen, Peter Billie. 2017. ?The Good, the Ugly and the ?Dirty Harry?s of Conservation: Rethinking the Anthropology of Conservation NGOs?. In Peter Billie Larsen & Dan Brockington. 2017. The Anthropology of Conservation NGOs: Rethinking the Boundaries. Springer International Publishing. pp. 17-46.
Juris, Jeffrey S. & Alex Khasnabish. 2016. ?Introduction: Ethnography and Activism within Networked Spaces of Transnational Encounter?. In Martin Holbraad, & Morten Axel Pedersen, Times of security: Ethnographies of fear, protest and the future., Abingdon & New York: Routledge. pp.1-36.
Jordan, Ann T. & D. Douglas Caulkins. 2013. ?Expanding the Field of Organizational Anthropology for the Twenty-?rst Century?. In D. Douglas Caulkins & Ann T. Jordan (Eds.) A Companion to Organizational Anthropology. Malden(MA)/Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp.1-24.
Janson Charles H., 2000, ?Primate socio-ecology: The end of a golden age?. Evolutionary Anthropology. 9. pp. 73-86.
Hockings, Kimberley J.; Matthew R. McLennan, Susana Carvalho, Marc Ancrenaz, Rene Bobe, Richard W. Byrne, Robin I. M. Dunbar, Tetsuro Matsuzawa, William C. Mcgrew, Elizabeth A. Williamson, Michael L.Wilson, Bernard Wood, Richard W. Wrangham & Catherine M. Hill. 2015. ?Apes in the Anthropocene: Flexibility and survival?. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 30 (4). pp. 215?222.
Ginsburg, Faye D.; Lila Abu-Lughood & Brian Larkin. 2002. ?Introduction? In Media Worlds. Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 1-36.
Gardner, Helen and Robert Kenny. 2016. ?Before the Field: Colonial Anthropology Reassessed?; Oceania. Special Issue: Before the Field: Colonial Ethnography 39;s Challenge to British Anthropology. 86. (3): 218-224.
Fiske, S.J., Crate, S.A., Crumley, C.L., Galvin, K., Lazrus, H., Lucero, L. OliverSmith, A., Orlove, B., Strauss, S., Wilk, R. 2014. Changing the Atmosphere. Anthropology and Climate Change. Final report of the AAA Global Climate Change Task Force. Arlington, VA: American Anthropological Association. pp.41-56
Feixa, Carlos, Jeffrey Juris & Inês Pereira, 2009 "Global citizenship and the 'new, new' social movements: Iberian connections". Young, Vol. 17. nº4. pp. 421-442.
Eriksen, Thomas Hylland. 2018. ?Cooling down the overheated Anthropocene. Lessons from anthropology and cultural history?. Gutorm Gjessing Lecture. Museum of Cultural History, University of Oslo Museum of Cultural History Working Paper 1
Edelman, Marc. 2001. ?Social Movements: Changing Paradigms and Forms of Politics?. Annual Review of Anthropology. 30. pp. 285?317.
Di Giovanni, Julia Ruiz. 2015. ?Artes de abrir espaço. Apontamentos para a análise de práticas em trânsito entre arte e ativismo?. Cadernos de Arte e Antropologia. Vol. 4. nº 2. pp. 13-27.
Desai, Manisha. 2013. ?The Possibilities and Perils for Scholar-Activists and Activist-Scholars Reflections on the Feminist Dialogues?. In Jeffrey Juris & Alex Khasnabish (Eds.). Insurgent Encounters: Transnational Activism, Ethnography, and the Political. Durham/London: Duke University Press Books
Chakrabarty, Dipesh. 1992. ?Postcoloniality and the artifices of History. Who speaks for the IndianPast??. Representations. nº.37. pp.1-26.
Bashkow, Ira. 2019. ?Fieldwork Predecessors and Indigenous Communities in Native North?. In R. Darnell and F. W. Gleach (eds.). Disruptive Voices and the Singularity of Histories (Histories of Anthropology Annual, Vol. 13). Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. pp. 211- 229.
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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
S1 - ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY: AN ASSESSMENT
S2 - COSMOLOGIES, SUBJECTS, RELATIONSHIPS:
Alterities and ontologies; Agencies: humans and non-humans. The social revisited.
S3 -ANTHROPOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHY. THE USES OF COMPARISON
S4 - PROCESS OF CATEGORISATION AND THE USES OF CONCEPTS
Categories, classification and their implications. Human dignity and ethical values. The notion of evidence in anthropology.
The use of concepts in anthropology
Evaluation consists of the following modalities:
A) Continuous evaluation:
a)Students present a critical review of the recommended text - 20% of evaluation.
b) Class discussion of the text - 10% of evaluation.
c) Final essay consists of a state of the art on the main topics of the program - 70% of evaluation.
B) Final written Exam. There is no oral exam.
Final exam. There is no oral exam.
Title: ORTNER, S. 1984. ?Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties?, Comparative Studies in Society and History 26(1): 126-166.
Latour, Bruno. 2005. Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory. New York: Oxford University Press.
Ingold, T., 2008, ?Anthropology is not ethnography?, Proceedings of the British Academy,154, 69-92.
Hacking, I., 1996.The Looping Effect of Human Kinds, in Causal Cognition. A Multidisciplinary Approach, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 351-383.
Engelke, M., 2008, ?The Objects of Evidence?, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (N.S.), S1-S21.
Descola, Philippe, 2013. Beyond Nature and Culture, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Appadurai, Arjun, 2013, The Future as Cultural Fact. Essays on the Global Condition, London, Verso, 285-300.
Abu-Lughod, L., 1991, ?Writing Against Culture?, Fox, R. (ed.), Recapturing Anthropology. Working in the Present, Santa Fe, School of American Research Press, 137-162.
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Title: Tsing, A. L, 2005, Friction. An Ethnography of Global Connections, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 27-50.
Van Der Veer, P., 2016. The Value of Comparison, Durham: Duke University Press.
Van Der Veer, P. 2014.The Value of Comparison, HAU, 2-13
Sheriff, R., 2001, Dreaming Equality. Colour, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil, New Brunswick NJ, Rutgers University Press,59-83.
PIOT, C., 2010, Nostalgia for the Future: West Africa after the Cold War, pp. 77-95.
Overholtzer, L. & J. R. Argueta, 2017, ?Letting Skeletons out of the Closet: the Ethics of Displaying Ancient Mexican Human Remains?, International Journal of Heritage Studies, 24 (5), 508-530.
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.
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.
Nader L., 2011, ?Ethnography as theory?, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory,1(1), 211-219.
KEANE, W., 2006. ?Subjects and objects: introduction? in Tilley, et al. Eds. Handbook of Material Culture, Londres, Sage, pp. 197-202.
Ingold, T., 2017, ?Anthropology contra ethnography?, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 7(1), 21-26.
Kohler, F., 2016, ??Bon À Manger?: Réflexion sur la Cruauté Non Rituelle envers les Reptiles dans l?Uaçá, Bassin de l?Oyapock, Brésil, Ingold, T., 2014, ?That?s enough about ethnography?, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory, 4(1), 383-395.
INDA, J.. Ed. 2005. Anthropologies of Modernity: Foucault, Governmentality and Life Politics, London, Blackwell, pp. 1-11.
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.
Hartog, F., 2020, ?Sob a Condição Histórica de um Presente Perpétuo?, Electra 9, 57-70.
Harries, J., 2018, ?Human Remains: Rights and Treatment of'?, Callan, H. (ed.) International Encyclopedia of Anthropology, New York, Wiley Blackwell, 2988-2991.
Hacking, I., 2007, ?Kinds of People:Moving Targets?, Proceedings of the British Academy, 151, 285-318.
A reply to Eduardo Viveiros de Castro?, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 5(2): 1?41.
GRAEBER, D., 2015. ?Radical alterity is just another way of saying ?reality?
Good, A., 2008, ?Cultural Evidence in the Courts of Law?, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, (N.S.), S47-S60.
Gell, A., 2010 (1997), Art and Agency. An Anthropological Theory, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
?Forum. What is Analysis? Between Theory, Ethnography and Method?, Social Analysis, 2018, 62(1): 1-30.
FABIAN, J., 2012, ?Cultural Anthropology and the question of knowledge?, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 18(2): 439-453.
Crossland, Z., 2009, ?Of Clues and Signs: The Dead Body and its Evidential Traces?, American Anthropologist 111 (1), 69-80.
Col, G. da and D. Graeber, 2011, ?Foreword. The Return of Ethnographic Theory?, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory,1(1), vi-xxxv.
Casquete, J., 2006, ?The Power of Demonstrations?, Social Movement Studies 5 (1), 45?60.
Candea, M., 2018. Comparison in Anthropology: The Impossible Method, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
BRYANT, R. and KNIGHT, D., 2019, The Anthropology of the Future, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, pp.1-20.
Book Symposium on The Value of Comparison, HAU, 2017, vol.7, nº1, 509-536.
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.
APPADURAI, A, 2013, The Future as Cultural Fact. Essays on the Global Condition, London, Verso, pp. 285-300.
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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.
Title: 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
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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
- 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%.
Title: 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
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Title: 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
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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.
S - Research Project for a Thesis in Anthropology
Evaluation: by a committee composed of the Programme Director, the Supervisor, and an External Member.
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Thesis in Anthropology
At the end of this curricular unit, students must able be to:
LG 1 - Enhance the knowledge and criticalunderstanding of the theoretical and methodological tools of Anthropology applied to a particular research context, including, whenever relevant, interdisciplinary connections
LG 2 - Insert the research topic into a larger anthropological question and if possible into interdisciplinary dialogue
LG 3 - Identify methods and techniques of scientific practice, namely those related to the ethnographic method
LG 4 - Do autonomous research work in Anthropology
LG 5 - Produce an original thesis in Anthropology
S1 - Implementation of research project
S2 - Empirical work
S3 - State of the art and theoretical discussion
S4 - Articulation between ethnography and theory and production of analysis
S5 - Includes bimonthly seminars (total = 6 sessions/year), where students present the state of their research and/or thesis writing, and share problems, in order to guarantee: critique of research results; debate of thesis chapters; participation in conferences and seminars.
Evaluation of progress based on follow-up seminar and a progress report to be presented at the end of each year
Final evaluation of thesis by a committee
Title: Stocking, G.W. 2001. Delimiting Anthropology. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press.
Sperber, D. 1992. O saber dos antropólogos. Lisboa: Edições 70.
Sankek, R. 1990. Fieldnotes. The Making of Anthropology. Ithaca & London: Cornell University Press.
Ingold, T. 2013. Making, London and New York: Routledge.
Bourdieu, P. 2002 (1972). Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique. Paris : Seuil.
Bloch. M. 2005. Essays on Cultural Transmission. Oxford : Berg
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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.
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