Anthropological Theory
Objectives
To provide students with an overview of the main theoretical debates in anthropology.
General characterization
Code
03100320
Credits
6.0
Responsible teacher
José Manuel Fraga Mapril Gonçalves
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - 168
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Not Applicable
Bibliography
Appiah K. A., 2018. The Lies that Bind ; Rethinking Identity: Creed, Country, Class, Culture, Liveright.
Castro, E. V. de, 2014 (2009), Cannibal Metaphysics, Minneapolis: Univocal (Cap.2).
Descola, Philippe, 2013. Beyond Nature and Culture, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press.
Hacking, I., ?The Looping Effect of Human Kinds? (1996), Causal Cognition. A Multidisciplinary Approach, edited by D. Sperber, D. Premack and. A. J. Premack. Oxford: Clarendon Press, pp. 351-383.
Ingold, T., 2018 ?One World Anthropology?, HAU 8 (1/2): 158?171.
Teaching method
M1- Each session is based on the previous reading of a text
M2- In each session one or two students presents a critical review of the recommended text
M3- The class discussion of the text is followed by a critical systematisation by the teacher
M4- The final essay consists of a state of the art on three to four topics of the program.
Evaluation method
Método de avaliação - Class discussion of the text (10%), Final essay consists of a state of the art on three to four topics of the program(70%), Students present a critical review of the recommended text -(20%)
Subject matter
S1 - ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY: AN ASSESSMENT
S2 - COSMOLOGIES, SUBJECTS, RELATIONSHIPS:
Alterities and ontologies; Agencies: humans and non-humans. The social revisited.
S3 - CATEGORIES, KNOWLEDGE, POWERS
Categories, classification and their implications
From the concept of race to the concept of culture
Circulation of knowledge: calculation centers/ collecting centers
Biodiversity and its values
:S4 - EPISTEMOLOGIES
The value of comparison in anthropology
The use of concepts in anthropology