Since a Dissertation is the result of the individual work of the supervisor with the student, a syllabus does not apply.

The Dissertation defense lasts one hour and the committee is composed of a President, the Supervisor, and an Examiner.

Mandatory

Não se aplica

Optional

Does not apply

Since an Internsgip is the result of the individual work of the supervisor with the student, in collaboration with the institution that hosts the Internship, a syllabus does not apply.

The Internship Report is evaluated by the supervisor.

Mandatory

Não se aplica

Optional

Does not apply

This curricular unit is a space for presentation and discussion of ongoing research and focuses on general aspects of research in anthropology, namely:

Definition and delimitation of the object of study

Ethnographic methods and techniques of data collection

Documentary analysis

Literature search

Formal aspects of organization of the dissertation

Students will be evaluated from the following:

oral presentaion report and participation in discussion- 40%

Final project - 60%

There is no final exam in this course

Mandatory

Not applicable because it is a follow-up seminar of dissertation. The seminar coordinator, in articulation with the thesis supervisor, may suggest relevant readings regarding students' research topics and methodologies.
Não se aplica por se tratar de um seminário de acompanhamento da realização da dissertação. O docente coordenador do Seminário poderá sugerir, em articulação com o orientador de tese, leituras pertinentes em função dos objectos e temáticas de pesquisa dos estudantes.

Optional

Não se aplicar

The nature of the UC does not allow the definition of a programme with concrete subjects, as it seeks to apply competences already acquired to carry out project work. However, some of the subjects in the UC, adapted and variable according to the specificities of each project, comprise:
CP1: Formulation of the problem and respective theoretical framework (Introduction and Diagnosis of needs)
CP2: Definition of the intervention programme
CP3: Method of implementation and evaluation of the program;
CP4: Writing and presentation standards (Preparation for defense)

The master's project work must be defended in public exams where the technical components, the form of the written work and the public presentation and defense will be evaluated, respecting the norms established by ISCTE-IUL. The Project must be submitted in accordance with the formal requirements and deadlines established by ISCTE-IUL

Mandatory

Não se aplica

Optional

Não se aplica

Session 1 - Introduction to the objectives of the seminar, teaching-learning process and evaluation system. Organization and timing of presentations.

Sessions 2 to 11 - Presentation of results of ongoing researches.

Session 12 - Evaluation by professor

Students will be evaluated throughout the semester according to the following elements:

Index of Dissertation + Progress Report or chapter of the thesis-60%

Presentation of results - 25%

Participation in discussions - 15%

This course does not include a final exam

Mandatory

Não se aplica por se tratar de um seminário de acompanhamento da realização da dissertação. O docente coordenador do Seminário poderá sugerir, em articulação com o orientador de tese, leituras pertinentes em função dos objectos e temáticas de pesquisa dos/as estudantes.
Does not apply. This is a seminar for monitoring and evaluating the dissertation. The coordinator of the seminar may suggest, in conjunction with the thesis supervisor, relevant readings depending on the the object and subject of the ongoing research.

Optional

Não se aplica

PC1. Unity and difference.
Anthropology and social theory. Hegemonic traditions, plural genealogies and World Anthropologies. The elephant in the room: the concept of culture.

PC2. Anthropology as theory of practice and practice of theory
Experience and cognition. Structure, agency and theories of practice. Comparison and “family resemblances”.

PC3. Epistemologies of difference
Feminist perspectives and decolonial critique.

PC.4. Culture, power, agency
Gramscian meditations. Hegemony and subalternity. Common sense as an anthropological concept.

PC5. Ethics, practice, epistemology
Scientific neutrality and objectivity. Positionality and “situated knowledge”. Collaborative epistemologies. Anthropological theory and public space.

Assessment will take place throughout the semester as follows:

A) Attendance and participation in classes and debates: 20%
B) Individual and collaborative work with presentation of short written texts throughout the CU: 20%
C) Final test: 60%

Optionally, the assessment can be done through a final exam: 100%.

Mandatory

Barnard, Alan (2022), History and Theory in Anthropology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Candea, Matei (ed.) (2018), Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory. London: Routledge.
Herzfeld, Michael (2001), Anthropology: Theoretical Practice in Culture and Society. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Moore, Henrietta, & Todd Sanders (eds) (2014), Anthropology in Theory: Issues in Epistemology. London: Wiley Blackwell.
Lins Ribeiro, Gustavo, & Arturo Escobar (eds) (2006), World Anthropologies: Disciplinary Transformations within Systems of Power. Oxford-New York: Berg.
Lewin, Ellen (ed) (2006), Feminist Anthropology: A Reader. Malden, MA: Blackwell.

Optional

Allen, Jafari S., & Ryan Cecil Jobson (2016), The Decolonizing Generation: (Race and) Theory in Anthropology since the Eighties. Current Anthropology 57(2): 129-148.
Alves de Matos, Patrícia (2023), Distributed agency: Care, human needs, and distributive struggles in Portugal. Critique of Anthropology 44(1): 82-96.
Bastos, Cristiana, Miguel Vale de Almeida, Bela Feldman-Bianco, eds. 2002. Trânsitos coloniais: Diálogos críticos Luso-Brasileiros. Lisbon: Imprensa de Ciências Sociais.
Candia, Matei (2018), Comparison in Anthropology: The Impossible Method. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Crehan, Kate (2004), Gramsci, cultura e antropologia. Lisboa: Campo da Comunicação (ed. orig. 2002).
Crehan, Kate (2011), Gramsci’s concept of common sense: A useful concept for anthropologists? Journal of Modern Italian Studies 16(2): 273–287.
Haraway, Donna (1988), Situated Knowledges: The Science Question in Feminism and the Privilege of Partial Perspective. Feminist Studies. 14 (3): 575–599.
Kirsch, Stuart (2006), Reverse Anthropology: Indigenous Analysis of Social and Environmental Relations in New Guinea. Stanford University Press 2006.
Lewin, Ellen, & Leni M. Silverstein (eds) (2016), Mapping Feminist Anthropology In The Twenty-First Century. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Narotzky, Susana (2007), The Project in the Model: Reciprocity, Social Capital, and the Politics of Ethnographic Realism. Current Anthropology 48(3): 403-424.
Trnka, Susanna, & Jesse Hession Grayman, L. L. Wynn (eds) (2023), Forum: Decolonizing Anthropology: Global Perspectives. American Ethnologist 50(3).
Wolf, Eric R. (2001), Pathways of Power: Building an Anthropology of the Modern World. Berkeley: University of California Press.
De la Cadena, Marisol, & Mario Blaser (eds) (2018), A World of Many Worlds. Durham & London: Dule University Press.

This curricular unit aims at:

P1 - aproaching the debate on the main anthropological subjects: culture, ethnicity, identity, borders, belonging and difference, highlighting the cultural steryotypes underpinning host countries policies and interactions between social services and migrant users;

P2 - reflecting on the social, economical, and political conditions of

departure countries and on the mobility-generating factors based on given ethnographic examples;

P3 - analysing host contexts and integration processes of immigrants at the local and national levels, considering both institutional and non-governmental and informal actors.

P4 - promoting the study of migration as a result of social forces, family projects and individual motivations, analysing concrete trajectories from an interdisciplinary perspective.

Assessment at UC is carried out throughout the semester, with a minimum attendance of 80% and based on oral participation in seminars (30%) and a written essay on a topic agreed with the professor (70%)
Students who obtain a final grade greater than or equal to 10 points will be approved at the UC.
Students who do not pass will not be able to take the exam.

Mandatory

Baganha, Maria I., José Marques e Pedro Góis (2004), ?Novas Migrações, Novos Desafios: a Imigração do Leste Europeu.? Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 69: 95-115
Brettell, Caroline (2003) Anthropology and Migration: Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity and Identity. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press,
Inda, Jonathan Xavier (2011), ?Borderzones of Enforcement: Criminalization, Workplace Raids, and Immigrant Counter-Conducts.? In Vicki J. Squire (ed) The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity. London: Routledge: 74-90.
Leal, João (2009) ?Traveling Rituals: Azorean Holy Ghost Festivals In Southeastern N E W England1? Holton, Kimberly DaCosta & Andrea Klimt (Ed) Community, Culture and the Makings of Identity:Portuguese-Americans along the Eastern Seaboard, North Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth: 127-144
Massey D.S. et al.,(1998) Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium. Oxford, Oxford University Press

Optional

Baganha, Maria I., José Marques e Pedro Góis (2004), ?Novas Migrações, Novos Desafios: a Imigração do Leste Europeu.? Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais, 69: 95-115
Bastos, C, Vale de Almeida e B. Feldman-Bianco (Org.) (2002) Trânsitos coloniais ? diálogos críticos luso-brasileiros. Lisboa, ICS.
Brettell, Caroline (2003) Anthropology and Migration: Essays on Transnationalism, Ethnicity and Identity. Walnut Creek: Altamira Press,
Inda, Jonathan Xavier (2011), ?Borderzones of Enforcement: Criminalization, Workplace Raids, and Immigrant Counter-Conducts.? In Vicki J. Squire (ed) The Contested Politics of Mobility: Borderzones and Irregularity. London: Routledge: 74-90.
Leal, João (2009) ?Traveling Rituals: Azorean Holy Ghost Festivals In Southeastern N E W England1? Holton, Kimberly DaCosta & Andrea Klimt (Ed) Community, Culture and the Makings of Identity:Portuguese-Americans along the Eastern Seaboard, North Dartmouth, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth: 127-144
Massey D.S. et al., (1998) Worlds in Motion: Understanding International Migration at the End of the Millennium. New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Baganha, Maria I. (Ed), (1997) Immigration in Southern Europe. Oeiras, Celta.
Baganha, Maria I. e P. GÓIS (1998/1999), ?Migrações internacionais em Portugal: o que sabemos e para onde vamos?. Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociai. Pp:229-280
Bastos, C, Vale de Almeida e B. Feldman-Bianco (Org.) (2002) Trânsitos coloniais ? diálogos críticos luso-brasileiros. Lisboa, ICS.
Blom Hansen, Thomas and Stepputat Finn (eds), (2005), Sovereign Bodies: Citizens, Migrants, and States in the Postcolonial World, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Challinor, Elizabeth P. (2012), ?(Ir)responsible mothers? Cape Verdeans and Portuguese social care.? International Journal Of Migration, Health And Social Care, VOL. 8, NO. 1: 12-22
Glick Schiller, Nina, Linda Basch, and Cristina Szanton Blanc, (1995)? From Immigrant to Transmigrant: Theorizing Transnational Migration?, Anthropological Quarterly. Vol. 68 (1): 48-63.
Grillo, R., e Gardner, K. (2002), ?Transnational households and ritual: an overview?. Global Networks. Vol. 2 (3): 179-191.
Inda, Jonathan Xavier and Renato Rosaldo (ed) (2002), The Anthropology of Globalization: A Reader. Blackwell Publishers.
Machado, Igor Rennó (2003) Cárcere Publico: processos de exotização entre imigrantes brasileiros no Porto, Portugal, tese de doutorado, UNICAMP, Campinas.
Vacchiano, Francesco ?Os confins no corpo: experiência, subjetividade e incorporação nos itinerários dos jovens migrantes marroquinos na Europa??
Weil, Patrick (2001), ?Access to citizenship: A comparison of twenty five nationality laws?, in Aleinikoff, T. Alexander and Douglas Klusmeyer (ed.), Citizenship Today: Global Perspectives and Practices, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Washington DC: 17-35.

P1.1. The human condition in the time of the Anthropocene
P1.2. 'Oikoumene'
P1.3. The improbable primate
P1.4. Anthropology, biology and complexity
P1.5. Phenomenology, perspectivism and ontologies of nature
P1.6. The 'human zoo'

Exam (100%).

Mandatory

- ABRAM David, A Magia do Sensível. Percepção e linguagem num mundo mais do que humano, 2007, Lisboa: Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian,
- BLAFFER HRDY Sarah, Mothers and Others. The Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding, 2009, Cambridge and London: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
- BONNEUIL Christophe and FRESSOZ Jean-Baptiste, The Shock of the Anthropocene. Earth, History and Us, 2016, London and New York: Verso,
- FINLAYSON Clive, The Improbable Primate: How Water Shaped Human Evolution, 2014, Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press,
- FUCHS Thomas, Ecology of the Brain. The Phenomenology and Biology of the Embodied Mind, 2018, Oxford: Oxford University Press,
- INGOLD Tim, Being Alive. Essays on Movement, Knowledge and Description, 2011, Routledge, UK and USA,
- LEWONTIN Richard C., Biology As Ideology, 1991, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Massey Lectures Series.,

Optional

- BEDNARIK Robert, The Human Condition, 2011, New York: Springer.
- CASTRO Eduardo Viveiros de, 'Os pronomes cosmológicos e o perspectivismo ameríndio', 1996, Mana 2(2) 1996, pp. 115-144,
- CRARY, Jonathan, 24/7 Capitalismo Tardio e os Fins do Sono, 2014, São Paulo: Cosac Naify,
- CRARY, Jonathan, Scorched Earth, Beyond the Digital Age to a Post-capitalist World, 2022, London, New York: Verso,
- DESCOLA, Philippe et PIGNOCCHI, Alessandro, 2022, Ethnographies des Mondes à Venir, Paris: Seuil.
- European Association of Social Anthropologists, EASA policy paper: 'Why Anthropology Matters', October 2015., EASA,
- GODELIER Maurice, 'Is Social Anthropology Still Worth the Trouble? A Response to Some Echoes from América', 2000, Ethnos , vol. 65 :3 , 2000: 301?316.,
- HORNBORG Alf, 'Animism, Fetishism, and Objectivism as Strategies for Knowing (or not Knowing) the World', 2006, Ethnos, vol. 71:1, 2006, pp. 21-32.,
- INGOLD Tim, 'Who studies humanity? The scope of Anthropology', 1985, Anthropology Today, Vol. 1, nº6, Dec 1985, pp. 15-16,
- INGOLD Tim, 'Beyond biology and culture. The meaning of evolution in a relational world', 2004, Social Anthropology 12, 2, pp. 209-221.,
- INGOLD Tim, 'Prospect', 2013, in Pálsson, Gisli and Ingold, Tim, Biosocial Becomings: Integrating Social and Biological Anthropology, Cambridge University Press, pp. 1-21.,
- INGOLD Tim, 'Sobre levar os outros a sério', 2019, in Antropologia, para que Serve. Petrópolis: Vozes,
- INGOLD, Tim, The Perception of the Environment. Essays on Livelihood, Dwelling and Skill, 2000, London and New York: Routledge,
- KNORR-CETINA Karin, 'Post-humanist challenges to the human and social sciences', 2006, in Galiardi, Pasquale and Kzarniawska, Barbara (eds.), Management Education and Humanities, UK and USA: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 233-245,
- MCMURTRY John, 'Behind Global System Collapse: The Life-Blind Structure of Economic Rationality', 2012, Journal of Business Ethics, 108:49-60.
- PÁLSSON Gisli et alt, 'Reconceptualizing the Anthropos in the Anthropocene; Integrating the social sciences and humanities in global environmental change research', 2013, Environmental Science & Policy, 28 (2013), pp.3-13.,
- SCHEPER-HUGHES Nancy, 'The Last Commodity: Post-Human Ethics and the Global Traffic in Fresh Organs', 2005, In Ong, Aihwa and Colier, Stephen J. (eds.), 2005 Global Assemblages. Technology, Politics, and Ethics as Anthropological Problems, USA, UK and Australia: Blackwell Publishing, pp. 145-167,
- TOREN Christina, 'Anthropology as the Whole Science of What it is to Be Human', 2002, in Richard Fox and Barbara King, Anthropology Beyond Culture, Berg, Oxford and New York, pp. 105-124.,
- WINNER Langdon, 'Resistence is Futile: The Post-Human Condition and its Advocates', 2005, in Baillie, Harold W. and Casey, Timothy K. (eds.), Is Human Nature Obsolete? Genetics, Bioengineering and The Future of the Human Condition, The MIT Press, pp. 385-411,

PC1 - The construction of the ethnographic canon and its multiple declinations.
PC 2 ? The politics and the poetics of ethnography: deconstructions and reconstructions of the canon.
PC 3 - Ethnography as a perspective on research: instruments, strategies and ethics in fieldwork. Readings of theoretical-methodological reflection texts.
PC4 - The ?new terrains? and their methodological challenges. Critical and analytical readings of monographs.
PC 5 - The challenges of ethnographic practice: pertinent questions, scales and dimensions of analysis, design and planning of research in Anthropology.

The following assessment tools will be used:
Critical commentary (1000-1500 words) on theoretical and methodological reflection text - 40%
Essay (up to 3000 words) on a monograph - 60%
Students who do not obtain a grade higher than 10 in the periodic assessment must go to the exam.

Mandatory

Tachi, J. et alli 2003 Ethnographic Action Research, UNESCO. New Delhi.
Sarró, Ramon & Lima Antónia 2003 Terrenos Metropolitanos. Ensaios sobre a produção etnográfica, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais
Robben, Antonius C.G.M. and Jeffrey A. Sluka (Ed.) 2027 Ethnographic fieldwork : an anthropological reader, Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Pink, Sarah at alli, 2016 Digital Etnography. Principles and Practice, Sage Publications
Bryman, Alan (Ed.) 2001 Etnography, Sage Publications
Abu-Lughod, L. 2000 ?Locating Ethnography? Ethnography 1 (2): 261-67.

Optional

Watson, C. W. 1999 Being there: six anthropological accounts of fieldwork, Pluto Press
Vokes, Richard 2007 ?(Re)constructing the Field through Sound: Actor-networks, Ethnographic Representation Representation and 'Radio Elicitation' in South-western Uganda? in Tim Ingold e Elisabeth Hallan (Eds) Creativity and Cultural Imprositation, Oxford: Berg, p. 285-303.
Tachi, J. et all. 2003. Ethnographic Action Research. UNESCO. New Delhi.
Spiess, Maiko Rafael e Marcos Antônio Mattedi 2010 ?Da Associação à Dissolução da Rede Sociotécnica do Processador de Textos Fácil: Subsídios Para uma Etnografia da Tecnologia? Mana 16(2): 435-470.
Roger Sanjek (ed.) 1990 Fieldnotes. The Making of Anthropology, Ithaca, London: Cornell University Press
Poirier,J. & Clapier Valladon, S. & Raybaut (1983) 1995 Histórias de Vida - Teoria e Prática, Celta, Oeiras
Peters, John Durham 2001 ?Seeing Bifocality: Media, Place, Culture? in: Akhil e James Ferguson (Eds) 2001Culture, Power, Place. Explorations in Critical Anthropology, Duke University Press.
Postill, John 2006 Media and Nation Building. How the Iban became Malasians, Berghahn Books.
Peirano, Mariza 1995 A favor da etnografia, Rio de Janeiro : Relume-Dumará.
O?Neill, Brian J. & Pais de Brito, Joaquim 1991 Lugares de Aqui, Lisboa, D.Quixote
O' Neill, B. J. 1988 "Reflexões sobre o Estudo de Caso Antropológico" in O estudo da História: Boletim dos Sócios da Associação de Professores de História, nº 5-6 (II série), p. 5-23.
O'Neill, Brian 1984 Proprietários, Lavradores e Jornaleiras. Desigualdade Social numa Aldeia Transmontana, 1870-1978, Lisboa: Dom Quixote.
Miller, Daniel et alli, 2016. How the World Changed Social Media. London: UCL Press.
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.
Miller, Daniel 2011 Tales of Facebook, Cambridge: Polity Press
Lahire, B. (1996), ?La variation des contextes en sciences sociales: remarques épistémologiques?, Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales, 2, Março-Abril, pp. 381-407.
Jorba, Juan M. García 2000 Diarios de Campo, CIS: Madrid.
Hine, Christine 2000 Virtual Etnography, Sage Publications
Gupta, Akhil and James Ferguson 1997 Anthropological locations: boundaries and grounds of a field science, University of California Press.
Hume, Lynne and Jane Mulcock (Ed.) 2004 Anthropologists in the field: cases in participant observation, Columbia University Press.
Garsten, Christine 2011 ?Ethnography in the Interface?. 'Corporate Social Responsability' as an Anthropological Field of Inquiry? in Ethographic Practice in The Present, Marit Melhuus et all (Ed.) New York, Oxford: Berghanh Books, pp.56-68
Ginsburg, Faye D.; Lila Abu-Lughood & Brian Larkin, 2002 Media Worlds. Anthropology on New Terrain. Berkeley: University of California Press. pp. 1-36.
Fradique, Teresa 2003 Fixar o movimento representações da música rap em Portugal, Lisboa: Don Quixote.
Fabian, Johanes 1983 Time and the Other. How Anthrpology makes its object, Columbia University Press
Ethnologia (6-8), 1997, Nova Série, ?Trabalho de campo?, dossier org. por Maria Cardeira da Silva
Dawson, C. 2002 Practical Research Methods. A user-friendly guide to mastering research techniques and projects, Oxford: How To Do Books Ltd.
Cliford, James; George Marcus 1986 Writing Culture. The Politics and Poetics of Etnography, University of California Press
Caria, Telmo H. (org.) 2002 Experiência Etnográfica em Ciências Sociais, Porto: Ed. Afrontamento
Armbrust, Walter 2000 ?Introduction. Anxieties of Scale? in: Walter Armbrust (Ed.) 2000 Mass Mediations. New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond, University of California Press.
American Anthropological Association Statement on Ethics, available online at the following web site: http://www.aaanet.org/stmts/ethstmnt.htm;

P1 - Theoretical debates in anthropology (from 1960 to 2020).
P2 - Anthropology today between generalizations and particularism
P3 - Classifications and categorizations
P4 -Comparison in anthropology
P5 - Anthropology and the ethnography of the archive
P6 - Extractivism, energopolitics and Resources materialities
P7 - Reparation, restitution and care

The assessment process involves two modalities: a) Assessment throughout the semester consisting of the following elements: 1) Participation in classroom discussions and prior reading of texts (20%), and 2) Final written test (80%).

b) assessment by exam. There is no oral exam. The final exam focuses on the basic bibliography and the main topics covered and discussed in classes.

Mandatory

Candea, Matei (ed.). 2018. Schools and Styles of Anthropological Theory. London: Routledge.
Moore Henrietta & Todd Sanders (eds). 2014. Anthropology in Theory. Issues in Epistemology. London: Wiley Blackwell.
Ortner, Sherry. 1984. “Theory in Anthropology since the Sixties”, Comparative Studies in Society and History 26(1): 126-166.
Ortner, Sherry. 2016. “Dark Anthropology and Its Others: Theory since the Eighties”, HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 6(1): 47–73.

Optional

Boyer, Dominic, 2011. “Energopolitics and the Anthropology of energy”, Anthropology News 52(5): 5-7.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 2000 [1998]. “Social Space and Symbolic Space”. In Practical Reason: On the Theory of Action. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
Candea, M., 2016 “On two modalities of comparison in social anthropology”, L’Homme 218(2).
Eriksen, Annelin, Ruy Llera Blanes, and Michelle MacCarthy. 2019. Going to Pentecost: An Experimental Approach to Studies in Pentecostalism. Oxford & New York: Berghahn Books.
Foucault, Michel. 1991. “Governmentality”. In Buchell, Gordon and Miller eds., The Foucault effect: Studies in Governmentality. Chicago, The University of Chicago Press, 1991, 87-104.
Ingold, Tim. 2008. “Anthropology is not ethnography”, Proceedings of the British Academy154: 69-92.
Mahmood, Saba. 2005. “The Subject of Freedom”. In Politics of Piety. The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Marcus, George. 1998. “The once and future ethnographic archive”, History of the Human Sciences 1998 11(4): 49-63.
Mbembe, Achille. 2003. “Necropolitics”, Public Culture 15(1): 11-40.
Moore, Henrietta. 1989. “Feminism and Anthropology: The Story of a Relationship”. In Feminism and Anthropology. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Sabelo J. 2020. “The Cognitive Empire, Politics of Knowledge and African Intellectual Productions: Reflections on Struggles for Epistemic Freedom and Resurgence of Decolonisation in the Twenty-First Century.” Third World Quarterly 0 (0): 1–20.
Ortner, Sherry B. 2005. Making Gender: The Politics and Erotics of Culture. Boston: Beacon Press.
Roque, R. and Wagner K. 2012. “Introduction” in Roque and Wagner eds., Engaging Colonial Knowledge. Reading European archives in World History. Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Sanjek, R. (1990). A vocabulary for fieldnotes. Fieldnotes: The makings of anthropology, 92-121.
Stoler, A.L., Along the archival grain, Princeton University Press, 2009. The Total Archive, Limn, February 2016 ( online)
Van Der Veer, Peter. 2016. The Value of Comparison. Durham and London: Duke University Press.

P1. Anthropology and cognitive science.
P2. The issue of common sense in anthropology.
P3. The problems of pre-conscious cognition.
P4. Cognition and culture
P5. The study of implicit thought: case studies.
P6. Conceptual metaphors.

Assessment throughout the semester: Leadership in one seminar discussion (30%), informed participation in discussions (10%), final essay (60%);.
OR
Final exam (100%).

Mandatory

Bloch, Maurice. How We Think They Think: Anthropological Approaches To Cognition, Memory, and Literacy. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1998.
Lakoff, George. «The Contemporary Theory of Metaphor.» In Metaphor and Thought. Edited by Andrew Ortony. 2nd ed. Cambidge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Lee-Whorf, Benjamin. «Science and Linguistics.» Technological Review 42, no. 6 (1940): 229–31, 247. https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/whorf.scienceandlinguistics.pdf
Malinowski, Bronislaw. The Sexual Life of Savages in North-Western Melanesia. 3rd ed. London: Routledge, 1932. Cap. 7.
Mercier, Hugo and Dan Sperber. «Why do humans reason? Arguments for an argumentative theory.» Behavioral and Brain Science 34, no. 2 (2011): 57–111.
Ross, Norbert e Douglas L. Medin. «Culture and Cognition.» In A Companion to Cognitive Anthropology. Edited by David B. Kronenfeld, Giovanni Bennardo, Victor C. de Munck e Michael D. Fischer. 357–75. John Wiley & Sons, 2015.

Optional

Barkow, Jerome H., Leda Cosmides and John Tooby, eds. The Adapted Mind: Evolutionary Psychology and the Generation of Culture. First Edition. Reprint, Oxford University Press, 1992-08-06.
Gentner, Dedre and Susan Goldin-Meadow, eds. Language in Mind: Advances in the Study of Language and Thought. MIT Press, 2003-03-14.
Bloch, Maurice. Anthropology and the Cognitive Challenge. Cambridge University Press, 2012-06-28.
Goldin-Meadow, Susan. Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts. Hachette UK, 2023-06-13. http://books.google.pt/books?id=HYWSEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

PC1 Research themes and proposals.
PC2 Main steps for the construction of a research project.
PC3 Presentation and discussion of the final project.

Assessment in class 40%, evaluation of the final Project 60%.

Mandatory

Pole, Chris and Sam Hillyard, 2016, Doing Fieldwork, LA, London, New Delhi, Singapore, Washington CD, Sage Publications.

Eco, Umberto, 2003, Como se faz uma tese em ciências humanas. Lisboa: Presença.

Campbell, Elizabeth and Luke Eric Lassiter, 2015, Doing Ethnography Today. Theories, Methods, Exercises, Oxford, UK and Malden MA, USA, Wiley Blackwell.

Blommaert, Jan and Dong Jie, 2010, Ethnographic Fieldwork. A Beginner's Guide, Bristol, Buffalo and Toronto, Multilingual Matters.

Blaxter, Loraine, Christina Hughes and Malcolm Tight, 2006, How to Research, England and USA, Open University Press.

Optional

To be supplied according to each project.
Fornecida consoante o projeto.

CP1. Introduction to the course: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
CP2. Anthropology and Human Rights
CP3. The universalism vs relativism debate
CP4. The concept of culture as a key issue in the debate
CP5. Two critical examples: the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights and the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
CP6. Recent Perspectives in Anthropology
CP7. International promotion of Women's Rights
CP8. Sexual orientation and gender identity: The Yogjakarta Principles
CP9. Critical perspectives: Human rights and the logic of neoliberalism.
CP10. The question of intercultural dialogue and cultural translation

Evaluation system: ongoing or exam. On-going: with 2 evaluation instruments - discussion of the readings in class (40%) and a final essay, 7 pp max (60%). 1st instrument assesses quality of oral participation in class. The 2nd instrument will evaluate writing skills, the quality of bibliographical research, acquired knowledge, and skills of analysis and synthesis. Alternative Evaluation by exam: in the first turn, second turn or in the special turn.

Mandatory

United Nations, 2006, The Yogkakarta Principles
Sousa Santos, B., s.d., Por uma concepção multicultural dos direitos humanos, online no site www.dhnet.org.br

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