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Cultural Anthropology

Code 13115
Year 1
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 5
Workload TP(45H)
Scientific area Sociology
Entry requirements Not applicable
Mode of delivery --Face-to-face. .
Learning outcomes Addressing the general foundations of Cultural Anthropology (history, object of study, theories, methodology, concepts) and its application in the analysis of primitive and contemporary societies; interdisciplinary dialogues with other sciences, social and biological; develop in the student the capacity for observation and critical analysis of different societies and cultures, from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Syllabus Module 1. Anthropology: an overview
1.1 History: from the narrative of the exotic to the ethnology/anthropology.
1.2 Object of study and its branches (physical/biological and cultural/social).
1.3 Methods and Techniques
Module 2. Nature and Culture
2.1 Human evolution: biological and cultural aspects.
2.2 The body as biological and cultural support
Module 3. Anthropological Schools and theoretical currents
3.1 Evolutionism, Structuralism and Functionalism
3.2. Relativism X Universalism
Module 4. Case Studies
4.1 Ethnographic trajectories


Main Bibliography Bibliografia básica

Annaud, Jean-Jacques (1981). Quest for Fire (filme).
Eller, Jack David (2016). Cultural Anthropology. New York: Routledge.
Laplantine, François (2003). Aprender Antropologia. São Paulo: Brasiliense
Rocha, Everardo & Frid, Marina (orgs.) (2015). Os Antropólogos. Petrópolis: Vozes.
Rodrigues, Donizete (2001). Os Filhos de Adão e Eva. Porto, Edições Asa.
Rodrigues, Donizete (2018). “O Antropólogo e o Sagrado: trajetos etnográficos em contextos religiosos diferenciados”, in Silveira, Emerson Sena da (ed.). Como Estudar as Religiões – metodologias e estratégias, pp. 98-125. Petrópolis, Editora Vozes.
Rodrigues, Donizete (2021). Introdução à Antropologia. Covilhã, UBI (texto de apoio).
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2025-09-10

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