Advanced Readings Anthropology

Recommended Prerequisites

Not applicable.

Teaching Methods

 The course is organized into theoretical exposition classes in which the teacher explains the underlying ethnographic process of the selected monograph, as well as introducing some additional readings that helps in the critical understanding of it.

The final assessment consists of a small individual work on one of the monographies and its additional bibliography. 

Learning Outcomes

The course aims to introduce students into the knowledge of processes of production and writing of ethnography, developing a critical spirit in students and simultaneously the absorption of reading and knowledge of ethnographies, classic and contemporary, both international anthropology as well as Portuguese anthropology    

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

 Students will be inducted into the study of selected chapters of the following monographies:
Malinowski Bronislav, The Argonauts of Western Pacific, 1922
Miller, Daniel, Tales from facebook, 2011
Cutileiro, Joseph Rich and Poor in Alentejo, 1973
Valverde, Paul Mask Mato  and Death: Texts for Ethnography of St. Thomas , 2000     

Head Lecturer(s)

Fernando José Pereira Florêncio

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 100.0%

Bibliography

Cutileiro, José, 2004, Ricos e Pobres no Alentejo, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte.

Malinowski, Bronislav, 1985, Argonauts of the Western Pacific, London & Henley: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

Miller, Daniel, 2011, Tales from Facebook, Cambridge: Polity Press.

Valverde, Paulo, 2000, Máscara, Mato e Morte: Textos para Uma Etnografia de São Tomé, Oeiras: Celta Editora.