Research Topics
1. Contemporary Transformations and Conflicts
This Line's inquiries encompass the subject of social continuities and discontinuities in an increasingly connected and diverse world, accelerated and compacted, but also ramified and rhizomatic. These transformations are of diverse natures, scales, and intensities, often resulting from cultural, political, and social disputes, conflicts, and negotiations. Professors in this Line preferentially address the following research topics: post-war contexts; displacements and borders; religion and politics; anthropology of Christianity; health and spirituality; human rights and state violence; cities and peripheries; inequalities and poverty; drugs, crime, and security; gender and sexuality; race and generation; social movements and the state; among others. Ethnographic and/or ethnohistorical research is also emphasized.
The Line is divided into the following sub-lines:
• Displacements, securitization policies, and social mobilizations;
• Religion, spirituality, and public space;
• Cities, inequalities, and violence;
• Political activism and intersectionalities.
Docentes Permanentes
Christiano Key Tambascia
Guita Grin Debert
Isadora Lins França
Maria Filomena Gregori
Natália Corazza Padovani
Omar Ribeiro Thomaz
Rodrigo Ferreira Toniol
Ronaldo Rômulo Machado de Almeida
Stella Zagatto Paterniani
Susana Soares Branco Durão
Taniele Cristina Rui
Docentes Colaboradores
Bela Feldman-Bianco
Carlos Alberto Steil
2. Anthropology and Ethnography of Knowledge
Open to the plurality of ways in which knowledge is produced and objectified, this line of research brings together research on systems of thought and social practices. The diverse themes covered include tangible and intangible assets; intellectual property and traditional knowledge; patrimonial regimes, narratives, and memory institutions, such as museums and archives; science and other modes of knowledge; art and cultural production; biographies and trajectories; and graphical representations and images. These highlights demonstrate the breadth and complexity of this line's contributions, stimulating theoretical and thematic perspectives and also allowing for the revisiting of some classic themes in anthropology, such as the opposition between nature and culture. To this end, its participants affirm the importance of ethnography for understanding and analyzing the diverse modes of constituting knowledge, situated, multiscalar, and interconnected in social experience. These assumptions inform the research, intellectual production, courses, and seminars offered through four sub-lines:
• Heritage, Politics and Practices of Memory, and their Modes of Objectification;
• Narratives, Writings, and Images;
• Biography and Trajectories;
• Sciences and Other Modes of Knowledge.
(Lista professores da linha)
Docentes Permanentes
Artionka Manuela Góes Capiberibe
Christiano Key Tambascia
Heloísa André Pontes
Joana Cabral de Oliveira
José Maurício Paiva Andion Arruti
Luiz Gustavo Freitas Rossi
Maria Suely Kofes
Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida
Stella Zagatto Paterniani
Docentes Colaboradores
Antonio Augusto Arantes Neto
Fabiana Bruno
Fabiana Bruno
Luís Felipe Bueno Sobral
Nádia Farage
Paulo Dalgalarrondo
3. Ethnologies
This line covers ethnology in a broad and plural sense, from the fields of Americanism (with an emphasis on the South American Lowlands) and Africanism, to the field of those populations that, historically invisible or treated as "peasantry," demand recognition based on their ethnic and cosmological particularities, such as Afro-American populations (quilombos, palenques, cimarrones) and so-called traditional peoples. The line's interests can be distributed across four major interconnected fields: A) the analysis of discourse, cosmology and religion, aesthetics, mythology and ritual, gender, kinship, and social organization; B) the sociogenesis and social microhistory of these collectives, their conceptions of history and memory, and the development of specific public policies for these segments, such as indigenism; C) issues related to forms of spatialization and territorialization, mobility, territorial overlaps, conceptions of nature and resource management, and, finally, conflicts over land, land tenure regularization, and the relationship with the State; and D) contemporary political organizations of an ethnic nature, debates on official forms of recognition in the fields of health and education, as well as new forms of protagonism in the arts, museums, and the humanities and social sciences themselves.
• Amerindian Studies;
• Afro-Oriental Studies;
• Afro-American and Quilombo Studies;
• Peasantry and Traditional Populations.
Docentes Permanentes
Antonio Roberto Guerreiro Júnior
Artionka Manuela Góes Capiberibe
Chantal Victoria Medaets
Emilia Pietrafesa Godoi
Joana Cabral de Oliveira
José Maurício Paiva Andion Arruti
Mauro William Barbosa de Almeida
Nashieli Cecília Rangel Loera
Omar Ribeiro Thomaz
Docentes Colaboradores
Nádia Farage
4. Gender, Differences, and Corporeality
This line of research encompasses studies that connect gender issues with social, cultural, and political expressions, experiences, and practices. Its overall objective is to provide tools for theoretical and methodological refinement, taking into account the connections between gender and other categories of differentiation, such as age, race, ethnicity, social class, and sexuality. Professors in this line of research address the following research topics: processes of subjectivation and arenas of agency; processes of racialization and racism; aging and generation; kinship, conjugality, romantic relationships, and reproductive technologies; eroticisms; sexual economies and sex work; science and technology; cultural and artistic production; media, market, and consumption; prisons and human trafficking; transnationality, migration, and refuge. The sub-lines of research, permeated by a concern for the defense of human rights, are as follows:
• Feminisms, sexual politics, and sexualities;
• Gender, knowledge production and/or cultural production;
• Corporealities, aging and life course, racialization processes;
• Kinship, romantic relationships, intimacy, and care;
• State, violence, legal practices, prison institutions, and security;
• Mobility, transnationalization, migration, refuge, human trafficking.
Docentes Permanentes
Adriana Piscitelli
Guita Grin Debert
Heloísa André Pontes
Isadora Lins França
Maria Filomena Gregori
Natália Corazza Padovani
