Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Objects, Identities and Cultures - 1st semester

Code

722170096

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas

Department

Antropologia

Credits

10

Teacher in charge

Maria Filomena Silvano

Weekly hours

3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Teaching language

Portuguese

Objectives

1. To conduct a theoretical and methodological extended reflextion around the relationships established between the objects, the identities and culture.
2. Reload this problem around concrete examples.

Prerequisites

None.

Subject matter

Bibliography

Ingold,T. 2013.Marcher avec les dragons.Bruxelles:Zones Sensibles.
Lévi-Strauss,C.1962.La Pensée sauvage.Paris:Plon
Kuchler,S. et Were, G. 2009. «Empathie avec la matière-Comment repenser la nature de l’action technique»,Techniques & Culture nº52-53: 190-211
Latour,B.1993.La clef de Berlin et autres leçons d’un amateur de sciences. Paris:La Découverte
Myers,F.2004.«Social agency and the cultural value(s) of the art object».Jornal of Material Culkture. Vol9(2):205-213
Miller,D.2005. «Introduction».In Materiality. D. Miller, dir. Pp.1-50. Durham:Duke University Press
Miller,D.2005. «Introduction».In Clothing as Material Culture. D. Miller et S. Küchler, dir. Pp.1-13. Oxford: Berg
Hansen,K.T.2004.«The world in dress: anthropological perspectives on clothing, fashion, and culture», Annual Review of Anthropology, vol.33:369-392
Warnier,J.P.,1996,Les processus et procédures d’authentification de la culture matérielle, Warnier, J.P. e Rosselin ed., Authentifier la marchandise – anthropologie critique de la quête d’authenticité, Paris, L’Harmattan, (9-38)
MARCOUX,J. S.The Refurbishment of Memory.In MILLER, Daniel (ed.), Home Possessions. Material Culture Behind Closed Doors.Oxford:Berg, 2001, pp. 69-86
Turgeon,L., 2007,La mémoire de la culture matérielle et la culture matérielle de la mémoire,Debary,O. E Turgeon, L. (Ed.) Objets & Mémoires, Paris, MSH editions, (13-36)

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