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6 Years
30 Jul 2020
Accreditation DGES
Initial registry R/A-Ef 1040/2011 de 18-03-2011
Update registry R/A-Ef 1040/2011/AL01 de 12-01-2021
Contacts
School of Social Sciences
Application
Sedas Nunes Building (Building I), room 1E05
candidaturas.ecsh@iscte-iul.pt
(+351) 210 464 016
9:30 - 18:00
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Lectured in Portuguese
Teaching Type In person

The MSc's faculty is highly qualified and connected to the activities of the university's Research Units. In some cases, these relationships enable students to participate in current projects and  research fields. The course also features collaborations with guest speakers and visiting professors under the protocols signed by Iscte and other Portuguese and foreign universities.

Faculty for (2024/2025)

Designing Research Project in Anthropology | Culture and Cognition | Research / Project Design in Anthropology 2
Francisco Vaz da Silva works on symbolic representations, which he mostly addresses in the fields of fairy tales, religious art, and comparative anthropology. His books include Metamorphosis: The Dynamics of Symbolism in European Fairy Tales (2002), Archeology of Intangible Heritage [2008], The Meanings of Enchantment: Revisiting Wondertale Symbolism (2023), and an annotated seven-volume collection of European fairy tales, Contos Maravilhosos Europeus (2011-2013). He has published extensively in professional journals, encyclopedias, and companion volumes in America and Europe. He was a visiting professor at the University of Tartu (2016), the University of Reykjavik (2013), and the University of California at Berkeley (2001/2002) and Los Angeles (2009). He has been the recipient of a Fulbright Research grant (1999) and a Faculty Research Grant from the Portuguese Studies Program at UC Berkeley (2001/2002). He serves in the editorial board of Cosmos (UK), Cultural Analysis (USA), Marvels & Tales (USA), and Narrative Culture (USA). [Updated 2023/08/23.]
Research / Project Design in Anthropology 1 | Research / Project Design in Anthropology 2
Human Rights and Culture | Human Rights and Culture
Catarina Frois is Associate Professor (with Habilitation) at the Department of Anthropology . She is author of several books and scientific articles, both national and international, with a special emphasis in the study of security policies, incarceration, control and surveillance technologies.
Human Rights and Culture | Human Rights and Culture
Designing Research Project in Anthropology | Research / Project Design in Anthropology 1
He holds a PhD in Anthropology and his Professor in the Department of Anthropology at ISCTE – University Institute of Lisbon and has been a Visiting Professor at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC) in Brazil in 2009-10 and 2017-18. He was Vice-President of the Center for Research in Anthropology (CRIA) and Diretor of CRIA-IUL. He has made several investigations in Portugal, Spain and Brazil working on themes such as body, ritual, heritage, tourism and, above all, in the area of ​​cultural performances, artistic practices and political activism. He has been collaborating with diverse structures and artistic events.
Research Methods in Anthropology
Issues in Anthropological Knowledge
Contemporary Migrations
Antónia Pedroso de Lima graduated in Anthropology at ISCTE (Lisbon, 1987), has a MA in Urban Anthropology from Barcelona University (Tarragona, 1991), an MA in Sociology of the Family ISCTE (1993), Ph.D in Anthropology (ISCTE 2001) and Habilitation in Anthropology (ISCTE, 2020). Professor at the Department of Anthropology at ISCTE since 1989, former President of CRIA, the National Research Centre in Social Anthropology (Portugal), former member of the scientific Committee of Openedition (CNRS) and founder of the LusOpenedition (Lusophone Countries) and former member of the National Committee for the Intangible Heritage (Portuguese Ministry of Culture). Specialist on kinship theory, gender and contemporary family relations Antónia Lima is the author of numerous publications on family in Portugal (focusing both on working class neighbourhoods, middle class families and economic elite), gender, emotions, care, austerity and precarity. Her present research interests are on family relations, gender, care, social reproduction and precarity. Since 2014 Antónia pedroso de Lima is one of the directors of Olhares do Mediterrâneo - Women's Film Festival, the first Portuguese film festival dedicated to women in cinema.
Contacts
School of Social Sciences
Application
Sedas Nunes Building (Building I), room 1E05
candidaturas.ecsh@iscte-iul.pt
(+351) 210 464 016
9:30 - 18:00
Apply
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