Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Advanced Topics in Anthropology - 1st semester

Code

73200101

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Antropologia

Credits

10

Teacher in charge

João de Freitas Leal, Margarida Fernandes

Weekly hours

2

Teaching language

Portuguese

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Prerequisites

None

Subject matter

Bibliography

ANDERSON, Benedict, 1991 (1983), Imagined Communities. Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, New York, Verso (1-7).
BASCH, Linda, Nina GLICK SCHILLER & Cristina Szanton BLANC, 1994, Nations Unbound. Transnational Projects, Postcolonial Predicaments and Deterritorialised Nation-States, Basel, Gordon and Breach Publishers (21-48).
CARRITHERS, Michael, Matei CANDEA, Karen SYKES, Martin HOLBRAAD & Soumhya VENKATESAN, 2010, “Ontology is just another Word for Culture”, Critique of Anthropology 30 (2), 152-200.
DESCOLA, Phillipe, 2013 [2005], Beyond Nature and Culture, Chicago, The University of Chicago Press (112-125).
GEERTZ, Clifford, 1973, “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture”, Interpretation of Cultures, New York, Basic Books, 3-30.
LATOUR, Bruno, 2005, Reassembling the Social. An Introduction to Actor-Network Theory, Oxford, Oxford University Press (27-42).
TSING, Anna L, 2005, Friction. An Ethnography of Global Connections, Princeton, Princeton University Press (27-50).

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