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)