Accreditations
Tuition fee EU nationals (2025/2026)
Programme Structure for 2025/2026
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| 1st Year | ||
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Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology
10.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 10.0 |
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Final Paper in Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology
20.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 20.0 |
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Methods in Anthropology: Research in Intangible Cultural Heritage
10.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 10.0 |
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Advanced Topics in Anthropology: Theories of Culture and Heritage
10.0 ECTS
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Parte Escolar > Mandatory Courses | 10.0 |
| 2nd Year | ||
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Thesis in Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology
180.0 ECTS
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Thesis in Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology (180 Ects) | 180.0 |
Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology
OA1 - critical analysis of the notions of cultural and natural heritage; tangible and intangible cultural heritage; cultural landscape ODS13
OA2 - UNESCO lists and the need to preserve. The notion of risk - ODS 10
OA3 - preservation as a cultural value; heritage and emotion;
OA4 - Contemporary artistic practices and the uses of heritage. Popular art. The ar
OA5- heritage and memory; dissent and conflicted heritage - ODS 16
P1 Museum and ICH. Collaborative museology P2 - UNESCO's listing and its implications P3 os critical heritage sutdies e a noção de authorized heritage discourse P4 Ithe notion of cultural landscape e de espirito do lugar P5The notion of danger and the 'need' to preserve; Cultural diversity and the biodiversity as a value; P6 Human trauma as heritage; nostalgia and emotions; P7 To preserve as a cultural phenomenon; preservation of heritage as an act of valuation. P8 ICH and memory; dissent and conflicted memories and heritage. P9 Contemporary artistic practices and the use of heritage. Appropriation: concept, genealogies and debates; The notion of popular art. P10 The archive : the specificities of the ethnographic archive. The archive as field. The 'Archival impulse'. Art, memory and contested heritage.
Evaluation processTwo modalities :
presentation based on reading + written version of the presentation ( 30%) and final essay (70%)
Smith, L., 2006.Uses of Heritage, Abingdon and New York: Routledge.
Schneider, A., 2003. On appropriation?. A critical reappraisal of the concept and its application in global art practices?, Social Anthropology, 11- 2, 215?229
Nas, P. J. M. 2002. 'Masterpieces of Oral and Intangible Culture. Reflections on the UNESCO World Heritage List', Current Anthropology, 43, 139-148.
Macdonald, S. 2013. Memoryland, London: Routledge.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, B., 2006.'World Heritage and Cultural Economics', in Karp, I. and C. A. Kratz eds., Museum Frictions. Public Cultures/ Global Transformations, Durham : Duke University Press, 161-202.
Harvey D.C, 2001. 'Heritage Pasts and Heritage Presents : Temporality, Meaning and the Scope of Heritage Studies', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 7(4) 319-338.
Harrison, R., 2013, Heritage. Critical Approaches, London and New York: Routledge.
Uzzell, D. 2008, 'Heritage that Hurts', in Fairclough, The Heritage Reader, 502-513.
Stoczkowski, W.,2009. 'UNESCO's Doctrine of Human Diversity. A Secular Soteriology?' Anthropology Today, 25 (3), 7-11.
Vidal, F and N. Dias eds., 2015. Endangerment, Biodiversity and Culture, London: Routledge.
Spieker, S., 2008, The big archive, Art from bureaucracy, Cambridge, Massachusetts London: The MIT Press
Smith L., 2021. Emotional Heritage. Visitor engagement at museums and heritage sites, London: Routledge.
Young, J.O., 2008. Cultural Appropriation and the Arts, Oxford: Blackwell Publishing
Smith L. and Campbell, 2016 'The Elephant in the room: heritage, affect and emotion', A Companion to Heritage Studies, pp. 443-459.
Smith, L. and N. Akagawa eds. 2009. Intangible Heritage, London: Routledge.
Smith L.,2012. 'Editorial', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 18 (6), 2014, 533-540.
Schneider, A. (eds,), 2020, Art, Anthropology and Contested Heritage. Ethnographies of Traces, Great Britain, Bloomsbury
Pinto Ribeiro, A., 2021, Novo Mundo. Arte Contemporânea no tempo da pós-memória, Porto, Edições Afrontamento
Olwig, K.,2001. ' "Time Out of Mind" - "Mind -Out of Time": Custom versus Tradition in Environmental Heritage Research and Interpretation', International Journal of Heritage Studies, 7 (4), 339-354.
Olwiig, K. 2008 'Natural Landscapes in the Representations of National Identity', The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity, 73-88.
Nielsen, B., 2011. 'UNESCO and the 'Right' Kind of Culture: Bureaucratic Production and Articulation', Critique of Anthropology, 31 (4), 273-292.
Meskell, L. ed. 2016. Global Heritage: a Reader, Wiley-Blackwell.
Meskell L., 2002. 'Negative Heritage and Past Mastering in Archaeology', Anthropological Quaterly, 557-594.
Macdonald, S., 2019, ?Heritage Traces, Differences and Futures: New Research Approaches to Heritage and Society?, Heritage and Society, Krakow, Heritage Forum of Central Europe
Logan, W. S., 2008. 'Cultural Diversity, Heritage and Human Rights', in B. Graham and P. Howard eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity, London: Ashgate, 439-454.
Leopold, R., 2008, ?The second life of ethnographic fieldnotes?, Ateliers du LESC, 32, http://ateliers.revues.org/3132
Leal, J., 2007. ?Metamorfoses da arte popular: Joaquim de Vasconcelos, Vergílio Correia e Ernesto de Sousa?, Etnográfica, Vol. VI (2), 2002, 251-280.
Lacerda, Rodrigo. "Worlding a Mbya-Guarani heritage: from dissonant heritage to ontological conflicts". International Journal of Heritage Studies 27 11 (2021): 1133-1148. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13527258.2021.1958362.
Kurin, R.,2004. 'Museum and Intangible Heritage', ICOM news,7-9.
Huyssens A. 1995. Twilight Memories. Marking Time in a Culture of Amnesia, London-New York, Routledge,
Holtorf C. 2018, 'Conservation and Heritage as Future', online
Holtorf, C. 2016 'Why Cultural Heritage is not at 'risk', online
Holtorf, C. 2015. 'Heritage Erasure' - Averting loss- aversion in Cultural Heritage", International Journal of Heritage Studies, 21 (4), 313-317.
Hirsch, Marianne. 2012. The Generation of Postmemory. Writing and Visual Culture after the Holocaust. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Heinich, N. 2012. 'Les émotions patrimoniales', Social Anthropology, 19-33.
Heinich, N. 2009, La Fabrique du Patrimoine. 'De la cathédrale á la petite cuillère', Paris, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.
Harvey, D. 2008 'The History of Heritage', Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity, pp. 19-36.
Harrison, R ' World Heritage as Listing', in Vidal/Dias, Endamgerment, Biodiversy and Culture, 2015, p.195-217.
Harrison R. and D.B. Rose, 2010. 'Intangible Heritage', in T. Benton ed., Understanding Heritage and Memory, Manchester/Milton Keynes: Manchester University Press, 238-276.
Harrison R. and D. O'Donnell, 2010. 'Natural Heritage', in S. West ed., Understanding Heritage in Practice, Manchester/Milton Keyes: Manchester University Press/Open University, 88-126.
Hafstein, V. 2009."Intangible Heritage as a List", in L. Smith and N. Akagawa eds., Intangible Heritage, London, Routledge, 93-111.
Gillis J. ed., 1994. Commemorations. The Politics of National Identiry, Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press.
Garcia Canclini, N., 2010, La sociedad sin relato. Antropologia y estética de la inminencia, Madrid, Katz Editores, 1-25
Foucault, Michel, 1969, L? archeologie du savoir, Paris, Gallimard.
Foster, H., 2004, ?An Archival Impulse", October, 110, pp. 3?22
Faria, N. (coord.), 2014, Ernesto de Sousa e a Arte Popular, Guimarães, CIAJG.
Fairclough, G. R. Harrison and all, 2008. The Heritage Reader, London, Routledge.
Fabre, D. ed., 2013, Émotions patrimoniales, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme.
Enwezor, O., 2008, Archive Fever: uses of Document in Contemporary Art, Gottingen, Steidl, New York, International Center of Photography, pp. 11-51
DeSilvey C. 2008 'Observed Decay', Journal of Material Culture, 318-338.
Des Chene, M., 1997, ?Locating the Past?, Gupta, Ahkil; Ferguson, James (eds.), Anthropological Locations, Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science, Londres, University of California Press, 66:85.
Cronon, W. 1996. 'The Trouble with Wilderness", in Cronon ed., Unconmmon Ground: Rethinking the Human Place in Nature, New York, Norton, 23-68.
Byrne, D. 2008, 'The Memorialization of Violence and Tragedy: The Human Trauma as Heritage', in The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity, 231-244.
Boym, S. 2001. The Future of Nostalgia, New York, Basic Books,
Bondaz, Bideau, Isnart and al, eds.,2014. Les vocabulaires locaux du 'patrimoine', Zurich: Lit Verlag.
Betts P. and Ross, C.eds., 2015. Heritage in the Modern World, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Berliner D. 2005. 'The abuses of Memory: Reflection on the Memory Boom in Anthropology', Anthropological Quarterly, 78,197-211.
Benton, T. and Watson N.J.,2010. 'Museum Practice and Heritage', in S. West ed., Understanding Heritage in Practice, Manchester/Milton Keyes: Manchester University Press/Open University, 127-165.
Bendix. R, Bortollotto C and all, 2015.Between Imagined Communities and Communities of Practice. Participation, Temporality and the Making of Heritage, Universtatsverlag Gottingen,
Alves, V.M. 2013. Arte Popular e Nação no Estado Novo. A Política Folclorista do Secretariado de Propaganda Nacional, Lisboa, Imprensa de Ciencias Sociais.
Almeida, S.V.; Cachado R. A, 2019. "Archiving Anthropology in Portugal", Anthropology Today, Vol. 35 (1): 22-25.
Aikawa, N.,2004. 'An Historical Overview of the Preparation of the UNESCO International Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage', Museum International, 56 (1-2) 137-149.
Final Paper in Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology
The final essay requires the following capacities:
OA1 - identify the main components of a research project
OA2 - to design the development of the research in a consistent and feasible way, adjusted to the time available for thesis completion.
OA3 - state of the art
OA4 - identify the most adequate methodology to the topic of research.
The final essay is basically a working paper based on student's research project and conceived as the first step leading to the doctoral dissertation. It consists on :
P1 - the state of art
P2 - the presentation of the main topics
P3- methodology.
P4 - Chronogram
The evaluation is based on the research project - up to 30 pages. The examination procedure consists of a public presentation of the research. The final paper is evaluated by a committee composed of three members - the tutor, the Program's coordinator, and an external member of the two institutions). It provides the opportunity to assess student's ability to move forward in the program.
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Methods in Anthropology: Research in Intangible Cultural Heritage
LG1. The development of the 'ethnographic method';
LG2. The contemporary meaning of 'locality' as well as 'multiple localities';
LG3. Raising researchers' awareness of the practical applications and limitations of six ubiquitous methodologies;
LG4. Highlighting the importance of ethical issues;
LG5. Analysis of the specificities of Intangible Heritage;
LG6. Selection of specific methodologies suitable for each doctoral research project.
A. The 'ethnographic method';
B. Further epistemological discussions: ethnography 'at home', auto-ehtnography, collaborative ethnography;
C. Participant-observation (steps and procedures) and multi-sited ethnography;
D. From fieldnotes to definitive text;
E. Information processing, ethical dimensions;
F. Intangible Cultural Heritage Inventories (collection and recording procedures);
G. Post-modern anthropology and its legacy: critical anthropology, reflexive anthropology;
H. Interviews, dialogues, and ethnographic conversation;
I. Extended case-studies;
J. From life-histories to 'narrative ethnography'.
1. Theoretical essay (max. 6 pp.) comparing two methodologies (50%);
2. Term paper (Final Report - max. 10 pp.): exploratory exercise based on one of the methodological procedures learned in this course (40%);
3. Participation in classroom debates, and oral seminar presentation of the Final Report (10%).
ROBBEN, A. & J. SLUKA 2012 (eds.) Ethnographic Fieldwork: An Anthropological Reader. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
MARCUS, G. 1998 'Ethnography in/of the World System. The Emergence of Multi-Sited Ethnography' Ethnography Through Thick & Thin. Princeton: Princeton University Press; 79-104.
MALINOWSKI, B. 1922 Argonauts of the Western Pacific. London: Routledge.
LASSITER, L. 2005 'Ethics and Moral Responsibility' The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press; 79-97.
KVALE, S. 1996 InterViews: An Introduction to Qualitative Research Interviewing. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.
GUPTA, A. & J. FERGUSON 1987 'Discipline and Practice: 'The Field' as Site, Method, and Location in Anthropology' Gupta & Ferguson (eds.) Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press; 1-46.
CABRAL, C. 2011 Património Cultural Imaterial: A Convenção da UNESCO e seus Contextos. Lisboa: Edições 70.
VAN VELSEN, J. 1987 (1967) 'A Análise Situacional e o Método de Estudo de Caso Detalhado' in B. Feldman-Bianco (org.) Antropologia das Sociedades Contemporâneas: Métodos. São Paulo: Global Universitária; 345-74.
TEDLOCK, Barbara 2011 'Braiding Narrative Ethnography with Memoir and Creative Nonfiction' in N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage; 331-339.
SPRADLEY, James 1979 The Ethnographic Interview. New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston.
SANJEK, Roger & Susan TRATNER 2015 (eds.) eFieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology in the Digital World. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press
SANJEK, Roger 1990 (ed.) Fieldnotes: The Makings of Anthropology. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
R.A.I. (Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) 1967 (1874) Notes and Queries on Anthropology. (6th ed.) London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
PITKIN, Donald 2001 (1985) The House that Giacomo Built: History of an Italian Family 1898-1978. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press / Dowling Scholarly Reprint Series.
O'NEILL, Brian Juan 2015 'Histórias de Vida na Antropologia: Novidades Transnacionais' in E. Lechner (coord.) Rostos, Vozes e Silêncios: Uma Pesquisa Biográfica Colaborativa com Imigrantes em Portugal. Coimbra: Almedina / CES; 73-108.
MINTZ, Sidney 1974 (1960) Worker in the Cane: A Puerto Rican Life History. New York: W. W. Norton.
MEAD, Margaret 1973 'The Art and Technology of Field Work' in R. Naroll & R. Cohen (eds.) A Handbook of Method in Cultural Anthropology. New York: Columbia University Press; 246-265 (com XVI Plates fotográficos).
MALINOWSKI, Bronislaw 1997 (1922) 'Introdução: Objecto, Método e Alcance desta investigação' (Introdução ao livro Os Argonautas do Pacífico Ocidental) in M. Cardeira da Silva (org.) Ethnologia, Nova Série, nº 6-8 ('Trabalho de Campo'); 17-38.
KUKLICK, Henrika 2008 (ed.) A New History of Anthopology. Oxford: Blackwell.
JACKSON, Anthony 1987 (ed.) Anthropology at Home. London: ASA.
GLICK-SCHILLER, Nina & Georges Eugene FOURON 2001 Georges Woke Up Laughing: Long-Distance Nationalism and the Search for Home. Durham, North Carolina: Duke University Press.
FRAZÃO-MOREIRA, Amélia 2009 'Plantas, Direitos e Cultura: A Antropologia e a Patrimonialização das Concepções, Conhecimentos e Práticas Relativos à Natureza' in P. Costa (coord.) Museus e Património Imaterial: Agentes, Fronteiras, Identidades. Lisboa: Instituto dos Museus e da Conservação; 302-317.
FONTANA, Andrea & James FREY 2005 'The Interview: From Neutral Stance to Political Involvement' in N. Denzin & Y. Lincoln (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research (3rd ed.) Thousand Oaks: Sage; 695-727.
FLYVBJERG, Bent 2011 'Case Study' (Chapter 17) Norman Denzin & Yvonna Lincoln (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research. (4th ed.) Thousand Oaks, California: Sage; 301-316.
FILLIPUCCI, Paola 2009 'Heritage and Metodology: A View from Social Anthropology' in M. L. Soerensen & J. Carman (eds.) Heritage Studies: Methods and Approaches. London: Routledge; 319-325.
FARDON, Richard et. al. 2012 (eds.) The Sage Handbook of Social Anthropology. 2 Vols. Thousand Oaks, California: Sage.
FALZON, Mark-Anthony 2009 (ed.) Multi-Sited Ethnography: Theory, Praxis, and Locality in Contemporary Research. Surrey: Ashgate.
EMERSON, R., R. FRETZ & L. SHAW 1995 Writing Ethnographic Fieldnotes. Chicago: University of Chicago Press; 142-211.
ELLEN, Roy 2006, 'Introduction' in R. Ellen (ed.) Ethnobiology and the Science of Humankind. Malden: Blackwell; 1-27.
DAVIES, Charlotte A. 1999 Reflexive Ethnography: A Guide to Researching Selves and Others. London: Routledge.
COSTA, Paulo F. 2011 Kit de Recolha do Património Imaterial [edição eletrónica] http://www.imc-ip.pt/Data/Documents/DPI/Publicacoes/KIT%20Jovens.pdf
BORTOLOTTO, Chiara 2011 Le Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel: Enjeux d'une Nouvelle Catégorie. Paris: Éd. de la MSH.
BAMFORD, Sandra & James LEACH 2009 'Introduction: Pedigrees of Knowledge: Anthropology and the Genealogical Method'in S. Bamford & J. Leach (eds.) Kinship and Beyond: The Genealogical Model Reconsidered. New York: Berghahn; 1-23.
Advanced Topics in Anthropology: Theories of Culture and Heritage
In order to complete te seminar the students must: a) know the theories and concepts related to culture and identity; b) have a comprehensive understanding of relevant areas in contemporary research on culture and identity (namely ritual and performance, oral and traditional literature, ethnomusicology); c) be able to partcipate in contemporay debates on heritage; d) know the relevant methods, empirical contexts and debates related to ICH.
ProgramCULTURE, POPULAR CULTURE, IDENTITY
1. Contemporary anthropology.Cultural critique and public debates (Clifford 2005; Guss 2000; Tsing 2005); 2. The anthropological concept of culture (Cuche 1999; Oba 2002; Trouillot 2002);3. Culture and identity (Handler 1988;1994; Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 1998; Malesevic 2011)
EXPRESSIVE FORMS OF CULTURE
4. Ritual and performance (Carlson 2011; Schechner 1988; Taylor 2008)
5.Oral and traditional literature (Bronner 2007; Ong, 1982; Zumthor 1983;6.Ethnomusicology (Nettl 2005; Rice 2007; Stokes 2004)
CULTURE AND HERITAGE
7. Anthropological perspectives on heritage (Choay 2006; Herzfeld, 1991;2010; Samuel 1999); 8. ICH (Hafstein 2007; Kirshenblatt-Gimblett 2004; Seeger 2009; Yúdice 2003).
ICH
9. ICH In Portugal (Costa 2008;2009);10. ICH in Brazil (Nunes 2011; Sandroni 2011)
ICH AND CULTURE.
11. Culture and community (Blake 2009; Brubaker 2002; Latour 2005; Noyes 2006); 12. The circulation of culture (Levitt 2001; Matory 2005; Oliveira 2004)
Students must read the bibliographical references for each session of the course. In each session, one of the references must be presented (10 minutes) by a student (20% of the final grading). Participation in discussions is strongly encouraged (20% of the final grade). At the end of the semester each student must submit and essay (10 pages), which weighs 60% in the final grading.
BibliographyYúdice, G., 2003, The Expediency of Culture. Uses of Culture in the Global Era, Durham NC-London, Duke University Press.
Trouillot, M., 2002, "Adieu, Culture. A New Duty Arises", Fox, R. & B. King (eds.), Anthropology Beyond Culture, Oxford-New York, Berg, 37-60.
Samuel, R., 1999, "Ressureccionism", Boswell D. & and J. Evans (eds). Representing the Nation: A Reader. Histories, Heritage and Museums, London-New York, 163-184.
Handler, R., 1988, Nationalism and the Politics of Culture in Quebec, Madison, Wisconsin University Press.
Handler, R., 1994, "Is Identity a Useful Cross-Cultural Concept?", Gillis, J. (ed.), Commemorations. The Politics of National Identity, Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 27-40.
Brubaker, R., 2002, "Ethnicity Without Groups", Archives Européennes de Sociologie XLIII (2), 163-189.
Zumthor, Paul, 1983, Introduction à la Poésie Orale. Paris, Éditions du Seuil.
Tsing, Anna L, 2005, Friction. An Ethnography of Global Connections, Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Taylor, Diana, 2008, "Performance e Patrimônio Cultural Intangível" Pós 1 (1), 91-103
Stokes, Martin, 2004, "Music and the Global Order," Annual Review of Anthropology 33, 47-72.
Seeger, Anthony, 2009, "Lessons Learned from the ICTM (NGO) Evaluation of Nominations for UNESCO Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, 2001-5", Smith, L. & N. Agakawa, Intangible Heritage, London-New York, Routledge, 112-128.
Schechner, R., 2005 (1977), Performance Theory, London-New York, Routledge.
Sandroni, Carlos, 2011, "L'Ethnomusicoloque en Médiateur du Processus Patrimonial. Le Cas de la Samba de Roda", Bortolotto, Ch. (ed.), Le Patrimoine Culturel Immatériel. Enjeux d'une Nouvelle Catégorie, Paris, Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, 233-252.
Sandroni, Carlos & Márcia Sant'Anna (eds.), 2006, Samba de Roda no Recôncavo Baiano, Brasília, IPHAN.
Rice, Timothy, 2007, "Reflections on Music and Identity in Ethnomusicology," Journal of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts 7, 17-38 http://www.komunikacija.org.rs/komunikacija/casopisi/muzikologija/VII_7/02/download_gb.
Ong, Walter, 1982, Orality and Literacy. The Technologizing of the Word. London, New York, Methuen
Oliveira, João Pacheco de (ed.), 2004, A Viagem de Volta. Etnicidade, Política e Reelaboração Cultural no Nordeste Indígena, Rio de Janeiro, Contra Capa/ LACED.
Oba, Yoshinobu, 2002, "Culture and Anthropology in Ethnographic Modernity", Fox, R. & B. King (eds.), Anthropology Beyond Culture, Oxford-New York, Berg, 61-80
Nunes, Izaurina (ed.), 2011, Complexo Cultural do Bumba-Meu-Boi do Maranhão. Dossiê do registro como Patrimônio Cultural do Brasil, São Luís, IPHAN.
Noyes, Dorothy, 2006, "The Judgment of Salomon. Global Protections for Tradition and the Problem of Community Ownership", Cultural Analysis 5, 27-55.
Nettl, Bruno, 2005, Ethnomusicology: Thirty-one Issues and Concepts, Urbana, Illinois University Press.
Matory, J. Lorand, 2005, Black Atlantic Religion. Tradition, Transnationalism, and Matriarchy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé, Princeton, Princeton University Press.
Malesevic, Sinisa, 2011, "The Chimera of National Identity", Nations and Nationalism 17 (2), 272-290.
Levitt, Peggy, 2001, The Transnational Villagers, Berkeley, University of California Press.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, B., 2004, "Intangible Heritage as Metacultural Production", Museum International 56 (1-2), 52-65.
Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara, 1998, Destination Culture. Tourism, Museums, and Heritage, Berkeley, University of California Press.
Herzfeld, Michael, 2010, "Engagement, Gentrification, and the Neoliberal Hijacking of History", Current Anthropology 51 (Supplement 2), 259-267.
Herzfeld, Michael, 1991, A Place in History. Social and Monumental Time in a Cretan Town, Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press.
Hafstein, V., 2007, "Claiming Culture : Intangible Heritage Inc., Folklore, Traditional Knowledge", Hemme, D., M. Tauschek & R. Bendix (eds.), Prädicat 'Heritage'. Wertschöpfungen aus Culturellen Ressorcen, Munster, Lit Verlag, 75-100.
Guss, David, 2000. The Festive State. Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism as Cultural Performance, Berkeley, University of California Press.
Cuche, Denys, 1999, A Noção de Cultura nas Ciências Sociais, Lisboa Fim de Século
Costa, Paulo, 2009, "Drawing-up a National-Wide Inventory of ICH in Portugal", International Journal of Intangible Heritage 4, 137-142.
Costa, Paulo, 2008, "Discretos Tesouros: Limites à Proteção e outros Contextos para o Inventário do Património Imaterial", Museologia.pt 2, 16-35.
Choay, Françoise 2006 (1992), A Alegoria do Património, Lisboa, Edições 70.
Clifford, J., 2005, "Rearticulating Anthropology", Segal. D. & S. Yanagizako (eds.), Unwrapping the Sacred Bundle: Reflections on the Disciplining of Anthropology, Durham, Duke University Press, 24-48.
Carlson, Marvin, 2011, "O Entrelaçamento dos Estudos Modernos da Performance e as Correntes Atuais em Antropologia" Revista Brasileira de Estudos da Presença 1 (1), 164-188
Bronner, Simon (ed.), 2007, The Meaning of Folklore: the Analytical Essays of Alan Dundes, Utah, Utah State University Press,
Blake, 2009, "UNESCO's Convention on Intangible Cultural Heritage: the Implications of Community Involvement in 'Safeguarding'", Smith, L. & N. Agakawa, Intangible Heritage, London-New York, Routledge, 45-73.
Thesis in Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology
At the end of this curricular unit, students must be to:
OA 1- to enhance theoretical readings and methodological tools for a particular research topic and if possible interdisciplinary connections
OA 2- capacity to insert the research topic into a larger anthropological question and if possible into an interdisciplinary dialogue
OA 3 - identify methods and techniques of scientific practice, mostly those related to the ethnographic method
This curricular unit is devoted to discuss and to help the student to pursue his or her doctoral research. The main objectives of this unit are:
P1- Research resultas criticism
P2 - Discussion on thesis's chapters
P3 - Participation in conferences and seminars
The program aims to develop students research skills, analysis and discussion of some main topics of the anthropological debate.
Evaluation based on participation in seminars and a report to be presented at the end of each semester. Students will be evaluated through continuous assessment. Attendance at the seminary is mandatory.
BibliographyStocking, G.W. Delimiting Anthropology, Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.
Sperber, D. O saber dos antropólogos, Lisboa, Edições 70, 1992.
Sankek, R. Fieldnotes. The Making of Anthropology, Ithaca & London, Cornell University Press, 1990.
Ingold, T., Making, London and New York, Routledge, 2013
Bourdieu, P. Esquisse d'une théorie de la pratique, Paris, Seuil, 2002 ( 1972)
Bloch. M. Essays on Cultural Transmission, Oxford, Berg, 2005
Daston, L. ed., Biographies of Scientific Objects, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 2000.
Bloch, M. How we think they think, Westview Press, 1998.
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