Anthropological Theories - 1st semester

Code

722001097

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Antropologia

Credits

10

Teacher in charge

João de Freitas Leal

Weekly hours

3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

Prerequisites

n.a.

Subject matter

Bibliography

DESCOLA, Phillipe, 2005, Par-Delà Nature et Culture, Paris, Gallimard.
LATOUR, Bruno, 2005, Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, Oxford, Oxford University Press
ORTNER, Sherry, 2006, “Power and Projetcs. Reflections on Agency”, Anthropology and Social Theory, Culture, Power and the Acting Subject, Durham. Duke University Press, 129-153.
STOCKING Jr., George, 1992, “Paradigmatic Traditions in the History of Anthropology”, The Ethnographer’s Magic and Other Essays in the History of Anthropology, Madison, The University of Wisconsin Press, 342-361.
TSING, Anna L, 2005, Friction. An Ethnography of Global Connection, Princeton, Princeton University Press.

Teaching method

Evaluation method

Courses

• Contemporary Themes in Anthropology
• Anthropology - Visual Cultures