Culture and Society: contemporary themes in Cultural and Social Anthropology

Recommended Prerequisites

1st Cycle Studies in Social Sciences or Humanities.

Teaching Methods

This course is organized around theoretical classes and seminar sessions devoted to the presentation and discussion of 'work in progress' developed by students.

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to provide a critical knowledge of recent developments in anthropological theory. The program is organized around anthropological reformulations of culture and society.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

The syllabus is organized around anthropological reformulations of culture and society. Theoretical proposals as Actor-Network-Theory are presented and are addressed research areas, as science, technology, art and architecture, which have pose new questions and new theoretical and methodological challenges to anthropology. The recent theorizing in social and cultural anthropology is scrutinized at three levels of articulation:

a) in terms of its analytical potential for understanding the social;

b) in terms of setting social and historical circumstances of its production;

c) in terms of its contribution to contemporary debates.

Head Lecturer(s)

Sandra Isabel de Oliveira e Xavier Pereira

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 35.0%
Research work: 65.0%

Bibliography

Jones, Caroline A. e Galison, Peter (Ed.), 1998, Picturing Science, Producing Art, Nova York, Routledge.

Latour, Bruno e Woolgar, Steve, 1979, Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts, Miller, David Philip, Princeton, PUP.

Miller, David P. e Reill, Peter H. (Eds.), 1996, Visions of Empire: voyages, botany and representations of nature, Cambrige, CUP.