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.
Mandatory Bibliography
Title: 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.
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Optional Bibliography
Title: 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.
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