MANDATORY COURSES

Anthropological Theory I
To present the historical context of the emergence of Anthropology as a scientific discipline.
To study the theoretical consolidation of the discipline through the influence of its traditional schools of thought: American, English and French.

Archaeological Theory I
History of classical archaeological theories, with emphasis on the institutionalization criteria of the discipline in Europe and the Americas. Historical-cultural archeology. New Archeology or Processual Archeology. Latin American Social Archeology. Post-Processual Archeology. Brazilian Archeology.

Anthropological Theory II
History of contemporary anthropological theories and themes that support the current debate in the field of world anthropology, such as: theoretical diversity in anthropological thought from the 1960s, Anthropology and Marxism, post-colonial situation, hermeneutics, postmodernism, theory of ethnicity, cultural identity, “peripheral” anthropologies and interdisciplinary boundaries.

Archaeological Theory II
Epistemology of Archeology, with an emphasis on the history of contemporary archaeological thought, and convergent and divergent aspects of different archaeological theories. Hermeneutics of contemporary lines of research in Archeology, such as: Archeology and power, Gender archeology, Post-colonial archeology, Archeology of things and Archeology and the uses of the past.

Methodology in Anthropology
The ethnographic method as a process and product. Preparation for fieldwork, interpretation and analysis of data using techniques and procedures that involve qualitative research.

Methodology in Archeology
Concept, nature and objectives of Archeology. Chronology and dating methods.
Survey and excavation strategies for archaeological sites. Classification, quantification and analysis of data in general. Archeology, interdisciplinarity and Ethnography.
Explanation in Archeology under different theoretical-methodological approaches. Management of archaeological heritage. Organization and development of scientific articles, master’s dissertations and doctoral theses.

Orientation Seminar I
Discipline related to the development of the orientation work for the master’s dissertation or doctoral thesis, whose content will be defined and taught by the faculty advisor.

Orientation Seminar II
Discipline related to the development of the orientation work for the master’s dissertation or doctoral thesis, whose content will be defined and taught by the faculty advisor.

ELECTIVE COURSES

Anthropology of Consumption
Theories and approaches relevant to the practice of anthropological research on socio-cultural phenomena related to consumption in general.

Anthropology and Image
Anthropology, image and the use of visual and audiovisual resources as a research method integrated with the investigation of human phenomena. Anthropological investigation of the processes, techniques and meanings of imagery production in the researched cultures.

Anthropology and Environment
Relationship between society, culture and nature, cultures-natures. Processes of territorialization (deterritorialization, reterritorialization) in times of globalization. The risk society and the movement for environmental justice. Political ecology. Ecological modernity and (un) sustainability. “Traditional” populations, sensitive knowledge and environmental conflicts.
Reflection on the relationship between society, culture and nature, based on the contribution of political ecology, contemporary social theory and the theory of territorialities. Focus on the socio-cultural diversity of groups and / or communities based on the problematization of environmental issues and management within the scope of singular historical and social political processes.

Historical Archeology
History of Historical Archeology at a global level and in Brazil, from its beginning to the present time, focusing on epistemological debates and case studies. Recent discussions in Historical Archeology.

Art and Archeology
The studies of Art and Archeology were not severely separated in their beginnings, constituting common interpretative traditions that reach us mainly through the institutional way (in some countries, in the training of archaeologists and art historians according to unique or similar academic programs; also in the propagation of museums that are Art and Archeology at the same time, for almost all countries).
On the other hand, in terms of academic research, a certain sharing of archaeological findings seems to split what the institutions kept together: everything that has an aesthetic appeal, artistic value or constitutes an image support would be destined to the History of Art, to artistic appreciation, to the art market; while the many archaeological testimonies that did not awaken such interests, mostly ordinary and fragmentary remains, mattered almost exclusively to archaeological interpretations, and their destination was almost always the drawers of the technical reserve. The vicissitudes of the problematic distinction between Artistic and Archaeological; the dismemberment and dispersion of collections; and their ideological and identity implications, are themes of this discipline.

Culture, Body and Subjectivities
Different conceptions of the body in historical periods and their influences on the conceptions of self and health. Views on the construction of the body and subjectivity. Social dynamics between body, culture and media. Suffering and the construction of subjectivity, as well as the contextualized body and the experience of the disease in the biomedical and psychological view.

Teaching Internship
Observation, participation and conduct in higher education under the advisor’s preferential supervision during the offering of subjects in undergraduate courses. The activities will be developed according to the specific program and menu of the discipline. They should lead to a didactic improvement of graduate students, familiarize them with the teaching position and better establish their knowledge regarding the area of ​​concentration in which they are linked.

Ethnoarcheology
Origins and development of Ethnorchaeology within the scope of World Archeology. Methods and theories in Ethnoarcheology. Ethnoarcheology, material culture, participant observation and formation of the archaeological record. Ethnoarcheology, historical-culturalism, processualism and post-processualism. Ethnoarcheology, Ethnology and anthropological theory. Material culture, ethnicity and ethnic territories. Ethnoarcheology in Brazil.

Amerindian Ethnology I
Study of Amerindian populations, with ethnographic attention focused on the Lowlands of South America. Focus both theoretical-ethnographic, through the study of monographic works and articles about specific ethnic groups, as well as methodological, through the various stages and objectives that ethnological research brings together, such as: social organization and kinship, history, cosmology, conception, body and health, category of person and the interrelation with other groups and with regional society. Reflect critically on the construction of the imagery related to Amerindian populations, going beyond national and knowledge borders and the formation of State policies for these populations.

Amerindian Ethnology II
Theoretical and methodological aspects about narrative, mythological thinking, history, genealogical chronicle, ritual, alterity, territory and origin of Amerindian collectives.

Identity, Alterity and Reciprocity
Discussion of the notions of identity, sociability and alterity, emphasizing the dynamics of the symbolic and sociological dimensions. Conceptualization of identity in its emblematic, contrasting and value aspects. Individualism and holism. Notion of person, culture of urban working classes. Project, identity and social roles. Conceptualization of sociability. Sociability and modern lifestyle in Simmel. Intimacy, loneliness, subjective dispossession and violence. Mediation and social networks. Sociability and reciprocity. The study of the other, difference and belonging. Western versus Amerindian views. Intimate alterity.

Afro American Cultural Manifestations
Intends to study, through synchronic and diachronic cuts, the cultural flows and exchanges constituting expressive manifestations of the diverse afro-descendent segments, focusing on the Americas. These flows and exchanges, driven by massive population displacements throughout history (compulsory or not), gave rise to the creation of diaspora cultures in which the aesthetic and the political are often inseparable. In addition, the intense circulation and fusion of ideas, ethical-aesthetic values, performance matrices and discursive fronts is in constant tension with cultural elaborations of an essentializing tendency, related to demands for formal recognition whether by State policies that strive for equality of conditions, or in unique ways of being in the world. This curricular component aims to raise awareness of the diversity of action logics, worldviews and ethical-political categories elaborated and manifested by Afro-descendent collectives, as well as the situational imperatives that make possible their transmission, reproduction and/or transformation in different contexts and levels of interaction.

Music in Urban and/or Rural Contexts
Theoretical-practical study of musical manifestations in urban and rural contexts in southern Brazil and countries bordering the Uruguay, Argentina and Paraguay region, their social, anthropological, aesthetic and cultural dimensions.

Identity Objects and Creation of Traditional Territories
Material culture, objects, identities and memory of peoples and traditional communities.
Processes, territorialization and territorialities.

Contemporary Religiosities and Subjectivities
The course aims to study contemporary religious phenomena in their relationship with society and culture. In particular, dealing with the processes of diversification of contemporary religious forms and their relationship with the phenomenon of globalization of culture. These processes will be studied in the context of Brazilian society.

Special Seminar I
Seminar to be developed based on a special theme, linked to the research by the proposing professor, preferably developed by a visiting professor or a professor from another graduate program.

Special Seminar II
Seminar to be developed based on a special theme, linked to the research by the proposing professor, preferably developed by a visiting professor or a professor from another graduate program.

Special Seminar III
Seminar to be developed based on a special theme, linked to the research by the proposing professor, preferably developed by a visiting professor or a professor from another graduate program.

Special Seminar IV
Seminar to be developed based on a special theme, linked to the research by the proposing professor, preferably developed by a visiting professor or a professor from another graduate program.

Pre-colonial Indigenous Populations of the South Brazilian Coast and Pampa
The macro-regions of the southern coast, Pampa and Serra as part of the present territories of Brazil, Uruguay and Argentina. Population origins, sociodiversity, contacts, cultural change, social complexity and territories among pre-colonial indigenous populations that settled on the south-Brazilian coast and Pampa. Indigenous peoples on the eve of the beginning of interethnic contacts with European conquerors.

Themes of the Rural World
Theories and approaches relevant to the practice of anthropological research and the ethnographic tradition produced in the study of socio-cultural phenomena in the rural world. Theoretical-methodological subsidies for projects, research, analysis and writing by graduate students who, coming from different disciplinary fields, work with themes related to the rural.

Feminist Theories and Gender Studies
Dialogues between Anthropology, Archeology and Feminism in the approach of gender as a social process linked to the construction of meaning and as a category of social analysis based on related themes, such as: nature and culture; ethnicity, class and generation; power; sexuality. Gender and overlap between people and the material world in the light of scientific scrutiny, with visibility to inanimate and/or non-material actors in the production of identities, imposition of social roles and agency.

Special Topics in Social Anthropology and Archeology I
Free syllabus discipline, preferably shared by social anthropologists and archaeologists from the thematic demands of each PPGAnt class.

Special Topics in Social Anthropology and Archeology II
Free syllabus discipline, preferably shared by social anthropologists and archaeologists from the thematic demands of each PPGAnt class.