Curricular Unit:			Code:
Social and Cultural Anthropology			777ASC
Year:	Level:	Course:	Credits:
1	Undergraduate	Political Science and International Relations	6 ects
Learning Period:		Language of Instruction:	Total Hours:
		Portuguese/English	78
Learning Outcomes of the Curricular Unit:
The aim is to promote the application of the knowledge and understanding acquired, in order to show a professional approach to the work developed in your vocational area. The assimilation of a general perspective of Anthropology will be promoted as a discipline that aims to study social and cultural systems, and allows us to decode the structure of its practices. The course and the most relevant moments of the theory and practice of social anthropology will be briefly addressed, as well as some of the most relevant thematic areas within its scope, addressing some of the most relevant themes for the characterization and understanding of human cultures. The aim is to promote the ability to collect, select and interpret relevant information, particularly in the field of understanding social dynamics, which enables students to support the solutions they recommend and the judgments they issue, including in the analysis the relevant scientific and ethical social aspects .
Syllabus:
teaching unit 1: 1. ANTHROPOLGY: definition 1.1. definition of this science regarding object and method 2. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE of EMERGENCE ANTHROPOLOGY as SCIENCE: 2.1. From Classical Antiquity to the Enlightenment 2.2. The Enlightenment 2.3. evolutionism 19th cent 2.4. the beginnings o 20th cent and counter-reaction to the 19th cent evolutionism teaching unit 2: 3.1. functionalism: Malinowski 3.2. the structural-functionalism: Radcliffe-Brown 3.3. Levi-Strauss and structuralism teaching unit 3: 4. THE PRESENT: BETWEEN SOCIAL DYNAMICS AND SOCIAL STATIC 4.1. Bourdieu and Giddens 4.2. The post-modern current
Demonstration of the Syllabus Coherence with the Curricular Unit's Objectives:
Ability to define Anthropology's area of expertise, both at the object level and at the level of general methodology (unit1&2) ; understand how different paradigms focus and conceptualise the social (unit 2; 3 & 4). Capacity of understanding and questioning of theoretical perspectives addressed in an applied perspective of theoretical constructs to the study of social reality (unit1 2; 3 & 4) Students should develop the ability to collect, select and interpret relevant information, particularly in their area of ??study, to enable them to base their solutions and the judgments they make, including in analyzing relevant scientific and ethical social aspects; to develop skills that allow them to communicate information, ideas, problems and solutions, both to specialists and non-specialists
Teaching Methodologies (Including Evaluation):
Lectures of expositive nature two written tests (50% + 50%) The evaluation will be based on the student's ability to apply the acquired knowledge and understanding, which should show a professional approach to the work developed in their vocational area.
Demonstration of the Coherence between the Teaching Methodologies and the Learning Outcomes:
The nature of the course is eminently theoretical This is in line with the type of classes and with the analytical skills and understanding to acquire and develop and to be shown through the written assessement. Such a strategy of teaching / learning aims to develop in students the ability to solve problems within their area of study, and to build and support their own arguments.
Reading:
1 MERCIER, P, (s.d). História da Antropologia, (1984) Lisboa, Teorema, (SAC 39/MER/3495 2 LEAL, J, (2006). Antropologia em Portugal : mestres, percursos , transições. Lisboa : Livros Horizonte. (BFP 572/LEA/48117) 3 MENDES, Tássia N E, (2014). Lévi-Strauss e a tríade da estrutura: a linguagem, o simbólico e o inconsciente. Tese Mestrado- Universidade Federal de São Carlos. (https://repositorio.ufscar.br/bitstream/handle/ufscar/4882/5889.pdf?sequence=1) 4 GEERTZ, C, e CLIFFORD, J, et al, (1991). El surgimiento de la antropología Posmoderna, Barcelona, Ed Guedisa. (SAC 39/SUR/11717) 5 GOLDMAN, M. (2017) Cosmopolíticas, etno-ontologias e outras epistemologias. A antropologia como teoria etnográficas. In Cuadernos de Antropología Social ( 44), p27-35. 6 KUPER, A , (2015) Anthropology and Anthropologists : The Modern British School, London: Routledge