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.