CONCENTRATION AREAS

The Area of ​​Concentration in Social and Cultural Anthropology is referred to by Ethnography, understood as methodology and epistemology, that is, as a process and product inherent to the practice and production of knowledge in the anthropological field. It constitutes the proposal of composition between the recognition of the symbolic nature of culture and a methodology capable of producing paths for the understanding of complexity, borders and diversity in the varied dimensions of life in society. It covers research on social organization, gender, family, corporeality, feeding, image, environment, State, religion, ethnicity, territories, processes of territorialization, science and cultural heritage, whether in urban or rural contexts. It is also linked to studies on traditional peoples and communities (indigenous, quilombolas, peasants, fishermen, Pomerans, etc.), covering cosmologies and socio-historical and cultural processes.

The Area of ​​Concentration in Archeology is referenced by the study of material culture and interculturality that characterize social relations in time and space, as well as characterizing complexity, borders and diversity in the varied dimensions of life in society. It is a proposal to break with the subject-object dualism and encourage research aimed at understanding human societies in different periods, from pre-colonial times to the present, based on the study of material culture and archaeological record. It covers research on social organization, gender, feedign, education, slavery, religion, technologies, ethnicity, territories, processes of territorialization, colonialism, science and cultural heritage. It is also linked to studies on traditional peoples and communities (indigenous, quilombolas, peasants, fishermen, Pomerans, etc.) and encourages the application of the ethnographic method for conducting participatory and collaborative research aimed at the interests of these collectives.

LINES OF RESEARCH 

Archeology and Ethnology of Traditional Peoples and Communities
This cross-sectional research line includes studies on past and contemporary traditional peoples and communities, such as indigenous, quilombola and riverside populations, which are classic themes for Anthropology and Archeology in Brazil and other countries on the American continent. It embraces a considerable range of subjects, such as: material culture, social organization, cosmology, religion, interethnic relations, history, indigenism, school education, ethnicity, colonialism, urbanization, territories and processes of territorialization.

Community, Network and Performance
This cross-sectional line of research is dedicated to studies on relationships between human bodies, objects, spaces, oralities and speeches systematized in the social field, in the production of images and by the sciences. It covers themes related to communities, networks and performances composed of connections, flows and limits constituted in society, which need to be understood from the dynamics between sense and reality, apprehended in the diachronic and synchronic perspective.

Anthropology and Archeology of Objects
This cross-sectional research line aggregates studies on processes related to the formation of borders and communities, considering the relationships between human groups and objects, as well as private and museological collections and investigations related to activation and representation related to cultural heritage. Also included are researches on processes of territorialization, ethnicity and cultural identities, paying attention to the ways in which communities build their social and symbolic lives in time and space, through objects and interethnic and diasporic contacts.

Society, Environment and Territorialization
This line of research is focused on studies on the relations between society, culture and nature, focusing on collective representations and practices related to processes of territorialization of unique socio-historical contexts. It seeks to analyze and interpret the cultural expressions of the different groups that produce sociability linked to the appropriation and subjectification of space and to the rhythms and times of duration in situations of socio-environmental conflict.