2024
Cultural Anthropology
Name: Cultural Anthropology
Code: SOC12646L
6 ECTS
Duration: 15 weeks/156 hours
Scientific Area:
Sociology
Teaching languages: Portuguese
Languages of tutoring support: Portuguese
Regime de Frequência: Presencial
Sustainable Development Goals
Learning Goals
General aims:
1) To develop analytical thinking and to stimulate the problematize the relation between culture and nature
2) To understand and discuss the unitity and diversity of cultures
3) To contribute to attitudes of respect and tolerance towards cultural differences
1) To develop analytical thinking and to stimulate the problematize the relation between culture and nature
2) To understand and discuss the unitity and diversity of cultures
3) To contribute to attitudes of respect and tolerance towards cultural differences
Contents
I - Introducing Anthropology
1.Anthropology within the context of social sciences.
2.From General Anthropology to Cultural Anthropology. Preliminary concepts.
3.The object of Cultural Anthropology;
4.The anthropological method (introductory characterization).
II Themes of Contemporary Anthropology:
5. Identity and Difference. Racism and Xenophobia.
6. Noções de Antropologia do Simbólico: Os Ritos de Passagem.
7. (I)Material Cultures and Heritages.
8. Reciprocity and Circulation.
1.Anthropology within the context of social sciences.
2.From General Anthropology to Cultural Anthropology. Preliminary concepts.
3.The object of Cultural Anthropology;
4.The anthropological method (introductory characterization).
II Themes of Contemporary Anthropology:
5. Identity and Difference. Racism and Xenophobia.
6. Noções de Antropologia do Simbólico: Os Ritos de Passagem.
7. (I)Material Cultures and Heritages.
8. Reciprocity and Circulation.
Teaching Methods
Lectures, articulated with visual methodologies, and critical reading of texts.
Continuous Evaluation is the preferred method and it is based in two written tests (2x50%).
Evaluation system by Exam: one final exam (100%)
Continuous Evaluation is the preferred method and it is based in two written tests (2x50%).
Evaluation system by Exam: one final exam (100%)
Assessment
Continuous Evaluation is the preferred method and it is based in two written tests (2x50%).
Evaluation system by Exam: one final exam (100%)
Evaluation system by Exam: one final exam (100%)
Teaching Staff
- Filipa da Mota Alvim de Carvalho [responsible]