Curriculum Vitae
João de Pina-Cabral
June 2012
Pina-Cabral
1.
Personal Data
Name: Pina-Cabral, João de
Full Official Name: João Paulo dos Santos de Pina Cabral.
Date of birth: May 9th 1954.
Place of birth: Mafamude, Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal.
Nationality: Portuguese.
Languages: Portuguese, English, French, Spanish.
Personal address: Rua Veiga da Cunha 25
2710-627 Sintra, Portugal
(tel. +351-21-9241747)
Professional address: School of Anthropology and Conservation,
Marlowe Building, The University of Kent, Canterbury,
Kent, CT2 7NR, United Kingdom
(tel. +44 (0)1227 827056)
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2. Education
Secondary Schooling: 1972 - Liceu António Enes, Lourenço Marques (Maputo),
Mozambique.
Higher Education: 1976 - B.A. Social Anthropology (distinction) and French
Language and Literature, Witwatersrand University (Johannesburg, South
Africa).
1977 - B.A. Honors Social Anthropology (distinction), same university.
Dissertation title: Brancaflor: A structuralist analysis of a Portuguese folktale.
Supervisor: Prof. W.D. Hammond-Tooke. External Examiner: Prof. E.
Preston-Whyte.
1977 - 79 - M.Litt. student, Oxford University, United Kingdom. Promoted to D.Phil.
status.
1982 - D. Phil. in Social Anthropology, same university.
Supervisors: Dr. J.K. Campbell and Prof. Rodney Needham. Dissertation title:
A peasant worldview in its context: Cultural Uniformity and Differentiation in
Northwestern Portugal.
Examiners: Prof. Julian Pitt-Rivers and Dr. Peter Rivière. Examiners report
sent to Oxford University Press with recommendation for publication.
1984 – Portuguese recognition of Oxford D.Phil., Technical University of Lisbon,
July 6th 1984.
2001 – Habilitation Exam, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon. Lesson
entitled: “Identity, Marginality and Hegemony”. Examiners: Prof. Jean Lave
(University of California, Berkeley), Dr. Peter Rivière (Oxford University),
Prof. Carmelo Lisón-Tolosana (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain),
Prof. Jill Dias (New University of Lisbon), Prof. João Ferreira de Almeida
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(ISCTE, Lisbon), Prof. Maria de Lourdes Lima dos Santos (ICS), Prof.
Benjamim Enes Pereira (Museu Nacional de Etnologia), Prof. Manuel
Villaverde Cabral (ICS).
3. Academic appointments
1982 – 1988 - Lecturer, ISCTE – Higher Institute of Business and Labor Sciences,
Lisbon (final two years as part-time appointment).
1984 – 1986 – Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow in Portuguese Studies, University of
Southampton, United Kingdom and, concurrently, Senior Associate Member
of St. Antony’s College, Oxford.
1986 – 1992 – Research Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences (ICS), University of
Lisbon.
1988 - 1996 – Reader (Professor Associado Convidado), part-time appointment, ISCTE,
Lisbon.
1993 – 2004 – Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, University of
Lisbon (on leave between 1996 and 1997).
1996-1997 – Professor, Atlantic University, Oeiras, Portugal.
2004-2012 – Research Professor (Investigador Coordenador), Institute of Social Sciences,
University of Lisbon.
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September 2012 – Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Anthropology and
Conservation, University of Kent at Canterbury.
4. Teaching activities
June 1976 - March 1977 - Monitor, Witwatersrand University, Dep. Social
Anthropology.
May 1982 - October 1983 - “Introduction to Social Anthropology” (1st year course),
ISCTE, Lisbon.
October 1983 - October 1996 - “Social Anthropology I” (2nd year course) and
“Social Anthropology II” (3rd year), ISCTE.
1984 - 1986 - “History of the Iberian Peninsula” (1st year, section on Portugal) and
“History of the European Family” (4th year course) – Dep. of History,
University of Southampton.
1989 - 1990 - Invited Professor, “Family and Life Cycle”, M.A. in Population
History, University of Minho.
1992 - 1995 – MA in Social Sciences, ICS, “Family and Social Change” also member
of Organizing Committee.
1993-1994 – Invited Professor, “Legal Anthropology”, Faculty of Law, University of
Macau.
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1992 - 1995 – “Family and Social Change”, M.A. in Social Sciences, ICS (Lisbon).
1996 – Invited Professor, “The threshold diffused: Marginality, Hegemony and
Contradiction”, Post-graduate Program in Social Anthropology, University of
São Paulo.
1996 – 1998 – “Contemporary Society” and “Time and History” (1st year courses),
Atlantic University, Oeiras.
1998-1999 – Invited Professor, “Margins, Hegemonies and Interests”, M.A. in
Anthropology, ISCTE, Lisbon.
1999 – M.A. in Social Sciences, “Theory and History of the Social Sciences”, ICS.
2000 and 2001 – Invited Professor, “Symbolic Anthropology” and “Urban
Anthropology”, UFICS and Faculty of Arts (Dep. Anthropology), Eduardo
Mondlane University, Mozambique.
2002-2003 – Invited Professor, “Colonialism and Post-colonialism”, M.A. in
Anthropology, ISCTE, Lisbon.
2003 (March and April) – Invited Professor, “Mozambique and the colonial
transition”, Postgraduate Program in Social Sciences, UNICAMP,
São Paulo.
2005 (March to July) – Invited Professor, “The anthropology of the family”,
Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology, UNICAMP, São Paulo.
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2005 (August) – Fábrica de Ideias VIII, Summer Course, Centro de Estudos
Africanos e Orientais, Universidade Federal da Bahia, “Theory of Ethnicity”.
2006 (May) – Invited Professor, Ph.D. program in Social Anthropology, University of
Barcelona, Spain, course entitled “Iberian forms of personal naming and
complexity of identity”.
2006 (October/November) – “Methods of Social and Cultural Anthropology”, MA
course in “Social and Cultural Anthropology”, ICS, Lisbon. Joint coordinator
of this MA program with Ramon Sarró.
2007 and 2008 (May/June) – “Topics in Anthropology: a theoretical approach to the
possibility of the ethnographic gesture”, Invited Professor, UFBA, Dep.
Anthropology, Bahia, Brazil.
2007-9 – “Methods of Social and Cultural Anthropology”, MA in Social and Cultural
Anthropology, ICS, Lisbon (member of MA Organizing Committee).
2009 – “New reconfigurations of method in contemporary ethnography”, Doctoral
Program in Social Anthropology, ICS, Lisbon (also Program Coordinator).
2009 – Tinker Professorship (Spring Quarter), “New vocabularies of method in social
and cultural anthropology”, Dep. Anthropology, University of Chicago, USA.
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2009 – Invited Professor, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris,
participation in seminaries «Parenté et Religion » and « Les enjeux sociaux de la
généalogie » directed by Enric Porqueres i Gené.
2009, 2010 and 2011 (continuing) – Invited Professor, Departamento de
Antropologia y História de las Américas, Universidad de Barcelona, Master Integrado
en Antropologia, « Parentesco y Familia », course delivered annually in collaboration
with Prof. Joan Bestard Camps.
2010 – Invited Professor (FAPESP Professorship), Universidade Estadual de
Campinas (Unicamp), São Paulo, open conferences on “Person and Family” for the
Postgraduate Program in Anthropology.
2010 and 2011 – “Ethnographic methodologies”, Doctoral Program in Social and
Cultural Anthropology, ICS, Lisbon.
5. Post-graduate dissertations
5.1 – Served as examiner of doctoral and masters theses in the following universities:
Portugal:
Universidade de Lisboa; UIL/ISCTE, Lisbon; Universidade Nova de Lisboa;
Universidade da Beira Interior; Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Universidade do
Minho; Universidade de Coimbra.
Elsewhere:
Gothenburg University (Sweden); London School of Economics and Political Science
(UK); University College London (UK); School of Oriental and African Studies (UK);
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Oxford University (UK); Edinburgh University (UK); European University Institute
(Florence, Italy); University of Hong Kong; City University of New York (USA);
Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp, São Paulo); University of Brasilia
(Brazil); Sciences Po’ de Bordeaux (France).
Presided to all doctoral and masters theses at the Institute of Social Sciences,
University of Lisbon from 1997 to 2004 (c. 41 theses).
From 1982 to present, JPC was member of so many panels and juries for the
promotion and hiring of anthropologists and sociologists in Portuguese universities
that it is not advisable to list them all here.
5.2 – Theses supervised, already examined:
M.A. theses
• Paulo Jorge Valverde, Provas de Aptidão Científica e Pedagógica, Viagens no
País das Crianças e do Diabo: os discursos e as imagens da primitividade na Literatura
Missionária Portuguesa (1930-1960) (ISCTE, 1992).
• Susana Matos Viegas, Provas de Aptidão Científica e Pedagógica, (Coimbra
1995).
• Miguel Almeida Chaves, M.A. in Social Sciences, Da Gandaia ao Narcotráfico:
Marginalidade económica e dominação simbólica num bairro de Lisboa (ICS, 1996).
• Luís Fernando Quintais, M.A. in Social Sciences, O Voo Destrutivo do Tempo:
memória e trauma numa unidade psiquiátrica (ICS, 1997).
• Maria José Lobo Antunes, M.A. in Social Sciences, Só faz falta quem cá está:
Recomposição social numa companhia de circo (ICS, 1997).
• Inês Salema de Sousa e Meneses, M.A. in Social Sciences, Espaços Públicos,
Vidas Privadas: Identidades Gay em Lisboa (ICS, 1998).
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• Joana Afonso, M.A. in Social Sciences, Os circos não existem: Família e Trabalho no
Meio Circense (ICS, 1998).
• Catarina Delaunay, M.A. in Social Sciences, A construção social do género no casal
em contextos de consumo (ICS, 2001).
• Sónia Pires, M.A. in Anthropology, Um Estudo de uma Comunidade Religiosa
Dedicada ao Apoio a Mulheres Prostitutas em Lisboa (ISCTE, 2001).
• Fernando Eurico Sales Lopes, M.A. in Macau Studies, Os Sabores das Nossas
Memórias: A comida e a etnicidade macaense (Open University of Lisbon. 2001).
• Eunice Azevedo, M.A. in Anthropology, Performances estáticas de dança em
contextos de modernidade (ISCTE, 2002).
• Luís de Almeida Vasconcelos, M.A. in Anthropology, Substâncias Psicoactivas e
Identidade de Género (ISCTE, 2003)
• Maria Madalena Rolim Patriarca, M.A. in Social Sciences, O processo de
desinstitucionalização na saúde mental: um estudo de caso (ICS, 2003).
• Joana Oliveira, MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, A noção de imaginação
na obra de Rodney Needham (ICS 2010).
• Vera Azevedo, MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, Moçambique em Cena:
Nação, Género e Modernidade no Teatro (1992-2010) (ICS 2011).
• Samuel Weeks, MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, ‘As you receive with one
hand, so should you give with the other’: Mutual-Help Practices of Cape Verdeans on the
Lisbon Periphery (ICS 2012).
Ph.D theses
• Carlos Alberto Afonso, Ph.D. in Anthropology, O Poder do Espaço: Dominação
Simbólica, Território e Identidade nas Montanhas de Trás-os-Montes (Coimbra, 1994).
• Maria Antónia Pedroso de Lima, Ph.D. in Social Anthropology, Grandes
Famílias, Grandes Empresas (ISCTE, 2000).
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• Susana Matos Viegas, Ph.D. in Anthropology, Socialidades Tupi: Índios/caboclos no
sul da Bahia (Brasil) (Coimbra 2003).
• Luís Fernando Quintais, Ph.D. in Social Sciences/ Anthropology, About the
relation between law and psychiatry: a study of inimputability and the notion of person (ICS,
UL 2004).
• Jorge Alves do Souto, Trabajar en las Noticias: una aproximación etnográfica al
noticiario televisivo en Portugal (co-supervisor, Dep. Ciencias de la Comunicación,
Univ. Complutense de Madrid, 2005).
• Francisco Oneto Nunes, A área da Xávega: um estudo entre as populações piscatórias
do litoral, Social Anthropology (ISCTE, 2006).
• Carla Maria Miranda de Almeida Ferreira de Sousa, Alte: Elites Locais e Recreação
Identitária Numa Aldeia Algarvia Social Anthropology (ISCTE, 2006).
• João Manuel Vasconcelos, Afiliação Religiosa e Esferas de Acção Social em São
Vicente de Cabo Verde, Social Sciences/Anthropology (ICS 2007).
• Ruy Llera Blanes, Aleluia. Música, religião e etnicidade entre os ciganos, Social
Sciences/Anthropology (ICS 2007).
• Miguel Almeida Chaves, Confrontos com o mundo do trabalho, estilos de vida e
construção da identidade entre jovens com formação superior: o caso dos juristas, , (cosupervisor, Sociology, Universidade Nova de Lisboa 2007).
• Catarina Fróis, Doutoramento em Ciências Sociais/Antropologia, A sociedade
anónima. Estudo do anonimato na sociedade contemporânea (ICS, 2008).
• Nuno Dias, As Viagens de Rama. Construções Identitárias Diaspóricas Hindus em
Contextos
Coloniais
e
Pós-Coloniais
em
Portugal
e
Inglaterra
Social
Sciences/Anthropology (ICS, 2009).
5.3 – Presently supervising:
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Doctoral theses
• Madalena Rolim Patriarca, Identidade e estratégias de acção profissional: Um estudo
sobre
a
identidade
profissional
de
médicos
psiquiatras
portugueses,
Social
Sciences/Anthropology (ICS).
• Raquel Carvalheira, Associativismo e diversidade cultural: usos políticos da cultura e da
arte na cidade de Essauira, Marrocos, Social Anthropology (ICS).
MA dissertations
• Gonçalo Veiga, MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, ICS.
• Euclides Varela da Silva, MA in Social and Cultural Anthropology, ICS.
6. Positions of Academic Management
1983 – 1984 – Secretary of Scientific Council, ISCTE.
1987 – 1988 – Elected member, Scientific Council, ICS.
1989 – 1995 – Elected member, Scientific Committee, Dep. Anthropology,
University of Coimbra.
1992 – 1995 – Elected member, Post-Graduate Committee, ICS.
1996 – 1997 – Rector, Atlantic University, Oeiras.
December 1997 – July 2004 – President Scientific Board, ICS. Ex-officio: Member of
Senate of the University of Lisbon (delegate to Scientific Committee);
Representative before the Council of Associated Laboratories. Responsible
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for the negotiation and internal distribution of funding for research handed
over by the Ministry of Science: 2002 – 348.000€; 2003 – 518.900€; 2004 –
610.000€.
2006 (continuing) – Coordinator of Thematic Section “Identity, Migration and
Religion – Person and Mobility”, ICS.
2009-2013 – Elected member, General Assembly, ICS, University of Lisbon.
2009-2015 – Elected Member Scientific Council, ICS, University of Lisbon.
2011-2012 – President of General Assembly, ICS, University of Lisbon.
7. Other relevant activities
1989 – 1990 – President of Local Committee, 1st Conference of European
Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) (Coimbra, September 1990).
1994 – 1997 – Founder member of EIA, SA, society promoting Atlantic
University.
1999 – 2000 – Member of the Evaluation Committee for degrees in Sociology and
Anthropology, Foundation of the Portuguese Universities.
1999- 2002 – Member of Management Committee “China-Portugal Centre for the
History of Science” representing the Ministry for Science and Technology,
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Portugal with the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
1994-2004 – Member of the Evaluation Committees for Social Sciences and
Anthropology for the successive governmental bodies subsidizing science
(JNICT and later FCT).
2001-2004 – President of the Evaluation and Selection Committees for Post-Graduate
Grants in Anthropology and for Research Programs in Anthropology, FCT,
Ministry of Science and Higher Education.
2006 – Member of the Evaluation Committee of CAPES (Brasil) for the Postgraduate
Program in Social Anthropology, University of Rio Grande do Norte (Natal).
2007 – Member of Evaluating Committee, FCT, Anthropology, Post-Doctoral
Grants.
8. Scientific Associations
1986 – Founding member of Center for Social Anthropological Studies (CEAS),
ISCTE.
1989 – 1991 – Founding President Portuguese Association of Anthropology (APA).
1989 – Founding member European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA).
1992 - 1994 – Executive Committee, EASA.
1995 - 1997 – Secretary and Treasurer, EASA.
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July 1998 – Appointed member of Scientific Committee, Portuguese Association of
Anthropology (APA).
2003-2004 – President, EASA.
Julho 2004 – Participant of the founding meeting of the World Council of
Anthropological Associations and co-drafter of statutes (Recife, Brazil).
Abril 2005 – Member of the Advisory Council of the World Council of
Anthropological Associations.
December 2006-2010 – Vice-President of the Portuguese Association of
Anthropology.
9. Academic distinctions
June 1980 - Philip Bagby Scholar (1980-81), Faculty of Anthropology and Geography,
Oxford University.
1984 – 1985 - Senior Assistant Member, St. Antony's College, University of
Oxford.
1992 – Malinowski Memorial Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political
Sciences, University of London. Lecture entitled: “Tamed Violence:
Genital Symbolism in Portuguese Popular Culture”.
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1992 - Distinguished Lecturer, Society for the Anthropology of Europe American
Anthropological Association Conference, San Francisco, EUA.
1997 – Honorary member, EASA.
November 1999 – Oração de Sapiência, Inaugural Lecture for 1999, University of
Lisbon.
October 2003 – Stirling Memorial Lecturer, University of Kent at Canterbury.
April 2005 – Inaugural Lecture, Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology,
Universidade de Campinas (UNICAMP, São Paulo, Brasil).
October 2005 – Membro Correspondiente, Real Academia de Ciencias Sociales y Politicas,
Madrid (Spain).
2005 – Honorary Fellow, Royal Anthropological Institute.
October 2006 – Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira Memorial Lecturer, ISCTE.
March 2008 – Corresponding Member, 7th Section, Arts Class, Academy of Sciences,
Lisbon.
10. Research Grants
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November 1975 - February 1976 - African Studies Institute, Witwatersrand
University, Johannesburg – pilot research on Portuguese community.
June 1976 - March 1977 – Senior Bursar, Witwatersrand University.
1979 - 1980 - British Council Doctoral Bursar.
June 1979 - Philip Bagby grant for research in Portugal.
October 1982 - October 1984 - Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon –
grant to carry out fieldwork in Northern Portugal.
October 1984 - October 1986 - Calouste Gulbenkian Research Fellow in Portuguese
Studies at the University of Southampton, U.K.
Special grant from the
Advanced Studies Committee, University of Southampton, for project: “Family
Patterns in Northwestern Portugal in a Comparative Perspective”.
1987 – 1988 - Social Sciences Research Council of New York – grant for Project:
“Family Patterns in Northwestern Portugal” – in collaboration with Caroline
Brettel, Sally Cole, Rui G. Feijó, Arriscado Nunes and Elizabeth Reis.
1990 - 1993 - Project “Family and ethnicity in Macau: The Macanese community”,
Cultural Institute of Macau, in collaboration with Nelson Lourenço.
1992 – 1995 – Project “Aging: Social Experience and Social Metaphor”
(PCSH/C/ANT/376/92) in collaboration with Susana de Matos Viegas, JNICT.
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1994 – 1999 – Project “Anthropology of Health in São Tomé e Príncipe” in
collaboration with Paulo Jorge Valverde, JNICT.
1996 – 2000 – Project “Large businesses, large families” in collaboration with Maria
Antónia Pedroso de Lima, JNICT.
1998 - 2003 – Research Network “The social embeddedness of psychoactive
substances”, co-financed by ICS, FCT and Portuguese government’s drug
agency (SPTT).
2002-2004 – Scientific coordinator for ICS, under which quality negotiated with the
Ministry of Science and Technology the attribution of the status of Associated
Laboratory to the institute, contemplating the hiring of 13 new postdoctoral
research fellows and their respective research endowment.
March-April 2003 – FAPESP grant for Visiting Research Fellow, CEBRAP, São
Paulo (SP, Brazil) to work as advisor for the projects on Mozambique.
2004/5 - Grant for Sabbatical Leave (FCT, Lisbon).
2004/2006 – Visiting Researcher, CEBRAP, São Paulo.
2005/2008 – Research Grant (FCT, Lisbon) “Names and colours: Complexity of
identity and personal naming in Bahia” – Project coordinator, collaboration between
ICS (Lisbon) and CEBRAP (São Paulo). Funding: POCI/ANT/61198/2004 –
62.148,00€; PPCDT/ANT/61198/2004 – 9.710,00.
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2010/2014 – Research Grant (FCT, Lisbon) “The territorial web: personal belonging,
mobility and work in contemporary Brazil” – Project coordinator,
collaboration between ICS (Lisbon) and CERES (Unicamp, São Paulo, Brazil).
Funding: PTDC/CS-ANT/102957/2008 – 158.000,00.
11. Scientific meetings
NB: For reasons of brevity, mere delivery of conferences, participation in
conferences and contributions to symposia have only been listed after 2002 and, in
greater detail, since 2009.
11.1 – As organizer and participant
November 1978 - 4 public lectures on “What do anthropologists do?”, Biomedical
School, University of Oporto.
June 1982 - Co-organizer with Hermíno Martins and Rui G. Feijó, Gulbenkian AngloPortuguese Seminar, “Death in Portugal”, St. Antony's College, Oxford.
April 1986 – Organizer, Workshop “Methodological Problems of Participant
Observation in an European Context”, European Congress of Rural Sociology,
Braga, Portugal.
November 1986 - Co-organizer, Symposium “A Casa do Noroeste”, Delegação do
Norte da Secretaria de Estado da Cultura, Porto.
1987 - 1988 - Co-organizer, Seminar “Theoretical and Methodological Developments
in the Social Anthropology of Southern Europe”, ICS, Lisbon.
November 1987 - Co-organizer Workshop “Sociology of the family”, I Portuguese
Congress of Sociology.
1991 – President of Local Committee, EASA’s Founding Conference, Coimbra,
Portugal.
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1991 – Co-organizer, Symposium “Modes of Knowledge and Experience of Everyday
Life”, ICS.
December 1991 – Organizer, International Symposium “The Pearl River Delta: New
Perspectives in Social Research”, Instituto Cultural de Macau.
November 1992 – Organizer, Seminar “New Values and Life Styles in Macau in the
1990’s”, Instituto Cultural de Macau.
November 1993 – Organizer, International Symposium “Meeting Point of Cultures:
Macau and Ethnic Diversity in Asia”, Instituto Cultural de Macau and
Fundação Oriente, Macau.
June 1994 – Member Scientific Committee, III EASA Biennial Conference, Oslo,
Norway.
July 1994 – Member Scientific Committee III Luso-Afro-Brazilian Congress, ICS,
Lisbon.
July 1996 – Program Coordinator and Member Scientific Committee IV EASA
Biennial Conference, Barcelona, Spain; co-organizer of Plenary Session “The
Limits of Interest”.
October 1997 – Co-organizer, International Symposium “Succession and Leadership
in Elite Contexts”, ICS/Palace Fronteira, Lisboa.
1998 – Co-organizer Luso-Czech Meeting of Social Sciences, ICS/ICCTI, Fundação
das Casas de Fronteira e Alorna.
February 1999 - Co-organizer, Seminar “Lisbon: A city of margins”, ICS, Lisbon.
November 2001 – Co-organizer, Symposium “Ciência e Sociedade: Bento de Jesus
Caraça”, ICS/Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon.
July 2002 – Co-organizer, International Symposium “The Process of Belief”,
ICS/Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia, Lisboa.
May 2003 – Co-organizer International Symposium “On the margins of religion”,
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle am Saale (Germany).
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May 2004 – Organizer, European Anthropological Summit (EASA), “The future of
Anthropology in Europe (and EASA within it)”, a meeting of 50 noted
anthropologists from all over Europe, ICS, Lisbon.
June 2006 – Co-organizer, “Names and Persons: Gender, class and ethnicity and
complexity of identity”, Centro Pagu/Unicamp and Institute of Social
Sciences (Lisbon), at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences,
UNICAMP, Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil.
June 2006 - 9th Biennial Congress of EASA (Bristol, UK) – co-organizor with Junji
Koizumi, World Council of Anthropological Associations Pannel on “The
public image of anthropology”.
September 2007 – Co-organizor with Christina Toren, International Symposium “An
epistemology for anthropology” (ICS), funded by Wenner-Gren Foundation.
October 2008 - “The Vigilant Society: Identification, surveillance and privacy in
debate” (ICS, Lisbon) – co-organizer with Catarina Fróis, co-funded by
Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and Foundation for Science and Technology.
August 2008 - “New vocabularies of method”, Workshop, Tenth Biennual
Conference, EASA, Ljubljana (Slovenia) – co-organizer with Peter Pels (Univ.
Leiden).
September 2009 – IV Congress Portuguese Association of Anthropology, member of
Program Committee and of Executive Committee.
October 2009 – “Ethnography as Tradition in Africa”, International Symposium –
co-organizer with Ramon Sarró Maluquer, ICS (Lisbon).
August 2010 – 27th Meeting, Brazilian Association of Anthropology (Belém, Pará),
coordinator of symposium “Transatlantic Movements”.
September 2010 – EASA Conference (Maynooth, Ireland) Workshop “Intermediate
Categories”, co-org. With Dominic Boyer (Rice University/Goethe Universität
Frankfurt).
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May 2011 – SIEF Conference (Lisbon). Co-org. Antónia Pedroso de Lima, workshop
“Genealogy and Fieldwork: one century after Rivers.”
September 2011 – International Symposium “The value of the land”, co-org. with
Susana de Matos Viegas (part of project “The Territorial Web”), ICS (Lisbon),
funding FCT (FAAC).
October 2011 – 37th Meeting Anpocs (Caxambu, MG, Brazil), co-org. with Emilia
Pietrafesa de Godoi, roundtable “Dinamics of vicinality: kinship, house and
mobility”.
11.2 – Conferences delivered over the past years
2002 – During this year delivered lectures and conferences at: Max-Planck Institute
(Halle am Saale, Germany), VII EASA conference (Copenhagen, Denmark), London
School of Economics, University of Kent at Canterbury, University of Brunel
(London/Uxbrigde, United Kingdom), University of Wisconsin (EUA), Brown
University (EUA), Centre of Ethnology of Granada (Spain), IPATIMUP (Porto,
Portugal), Faculty of Psychology (Coimbra, Portugal).
2003 – During this year delivered lectures and conferences at: Postgraduate Programs
in Social Anthropology of São Paulo University, Campinas University (UNICAMP),
Rio de Janeiro Federal University (Museu Nacional), Brasília University (Brazil); at
CEBRAP (São Paulo, Brazil); University College London; University of Kent at
Canterbury (United Kingdom); Max Planck Institute, Halle am Saale (Germany);
Invited Session of AAA Conference (Chicago, EUA); “Coimbra Capital Nacional da
Cultura” (Portugal); Portuguese Society of Psychoanalysis (Lisbon); National
Symposium of Psychology.
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2004 – During this year presented lectures and conferences at: ANPOCS, (Caxambú,
Minas Gerais, Brasil, Outubro); ABA Meeting (Recife, Brasil); EASA Meeting
(Vienna, Áustria); CEBRAP (São Paulo, Brasil); PPGAS, UFGS (Porto Alegre,
Brasil); ICS (Lisboa).
2005 – During this year delivered lectures and conferences at: ICS (Lisbon); Museu
Nacional (Rio de Janeiro, Brasil); Instituto de Saúde Pública (Bahia, Brasil); Centro de
Estudos Africanos e Orientais, UFBA (Bahia, Brasil); PPGAS, Universidade Federal
de Santa Catarina (Florianópolis, Brasil); PPGCS, Universidade Estadual de São
Carlos (São Paulo); Centro PAGU (UNICAMP, São Paulo, Brasil); Academy of
Sciences, Vienna (Austria); Instituto Ricci de Macau (China); IDES (Buenos Aires,
Argentina).
2006 – During this year delivered lectures and conferences at: University of Évora;
ISCTE; Closing Session, Conference of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology;
PPGAS, Museu Nacional do Rio de Janeiro; PPGCS, IFCS (Rio de Janeiro); PPGAS,
UNICAMP (São Paulo); Universidad Complutense de Madrid; Biennial Conference
of the Brazilian Association of Anthropology (Goiânia).
2007 – During this year delivered lectures and conferences at: Assemblea de
Extremadura (Merida, Spain, Inaugural Speech); Universidade Federal de Minas
Gerais (Belo Horizonte, Brazil); Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia (Universidade
Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil); Universidade de Barcelona (Inaugural Lecture,
Masters integral in Anthropology); Wenner-Gren Symposium (ICS, Lisboa); Anpocs
Meeting (Caxambú, MG, Brazil); Dep. Anthropology, University of Chicago (USA);
Centre for Latin-American Studies, University of Chicago (USA); Centre for African
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Studies, University of Chicago; Dep. Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana
(USA).
2008 – During this year delivered lectures and conferences at: University of
Stockholm; Universidade Complutense, Madrid (Spain); EASA 08 (Ljubljana,
Eslovénia); University of New Delhi (India); STAR Meeting (Dep.s of Social
Anthropology of Glasgow, Edinburgh, Aberdeen e St. Andrews – Rannoch Kinnoch,
Scotland); Anpocs Meeting 08 (Brazil); Universidade do Paraná (Brazil); Universidade
Federal de São Carlos (São Paulo, Brazil); Institut Franco-Portugais (Lisbon);
Georgetown University (Washington, USA).
2009 – During this year delivered lectures and conferences at:
9 Jan – Conf. “Pessoa e nomeação em contextos lusófonos”, Academy of Sciences of
Lisbon;
6/7 Fev – EASA, Meeting of Ex-Presidents to Commemorate Twenty Years of
EASA, Vienna, Austria, Conf. “EASA twenty years after”;
27 Fev – Conf. “A prece revisitada: comemorando a obra inacabada de Marcel
Mauss” in Workshop “Oração: comemorando a obra de Marcel Mauss”, org. Clara
Mafra e Ramon Sarró, Lisbon, ICS;
2/3 April – Keynote Paper entitled “Lusotopy as Ecumene,” Conference “Lusofonia
and Anthropology: The Status of Race in Lusophone Social Science”, Centre for
International Studies and Centre for Latin American Studies, University of Chicago;
11/14 May – Four Master Classes and conf. “Ethnography and the challenge of
mutuality”, Scottish Training in Anthropological Research (STAR), Advanced (postfieldwork) Course, Dunalastair, Kinloch Rannoch, Scotland;
9/11 Sept – Org. and present Plenary Session, “Livre Arbítrio”, IV Congress
Associação Portuguesa de Antropologia (APA);
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28 Sept – Conf. “Ethnography as tradition: introduction to a debate", Workshop
“Ethnography as Tradition in Africa”, co-org. with Ramon Sarró;
8 Out – “Lusotopy as Ecumene” Dep. Seminar, Dep. History and Civilization,
European University Institute, Florence, Italy;
28 Oct – Conf. “Vinte anos sem Muro de Berlim e mais algumas celebrações”,
Roundtable “20 anos sem muro em Berlim: novas faces da violência política”, coord.
Omar Ribeiro Thomaz, ANPOCS (Caxambú, MG, Brasil);
5 Nov – Conf. "Morte, Mobilidade: Uma Reflexão Antropológica", Workshop, CEM
– Centro em Moviment, Lisbon;
12/13 Nov – Conf. “Qual crise? Normalidade e quebra sistémica na
contemporaneidade”, 1st Research Workshop, “Respostas à crise”, Fundação
Calouste Gulbenkian;
16 Nov – Conf. « La méthode de l’histoire de famille » Seminaire « Génealogies »,
coord. Enric Porqueres, EHESS, Paris;
17 Nov – Conf. « La porte au milieu : Six conditions pour l’anthropologie
contemporaine », Centre du Brésil Contemporain, coord. Afrânio Garcia, EHESS,
Paris;
24 Nov – Conf. « Noms de personne dans la Péninsule Ibérique », Colegio de
España, Paris, coord.s Enric Porqueres et Grégoire Salinero;
10/11 Dec – Conf. “Charles Boxer’s Race Relations today”, Semin. « Race Relations»,
Coord. Francisco Bettencourt, King’s College London;
18 Dec – Conf. "A quelles conditions l'anthropologie est-elle possible aujourd'hui?",
Semin. AnthropENS, coord. Benoît de L'Estoile, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris,
09.
2010 – During this year delivered lectures and conferences at:
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13 Jan – Inaugural Lecture, Master Integrado in Social Anthropology, Dep.
Anthropology and History of Latin America, University of Barcelona (Spain) –
delivered paper “Anthropology in a Changing World.”
29 Jan – Symposium in Honour of John K. Campbell, St. Anthony’s College, Oxford,
org. Michael Llewellyn-Smith (UK) – delivered paper “Observing Europe with John
Campbell: a late view on the Mediterranean tradition”.
1-2 March – “Encontro ICS”, Institute Social Sciences, University of Lisbon, org.
Jorge Vala (Portugal) – delivered paper “O diabo e o dilema basileiro”.
30 March – Dep. Seminar, Dep. Sociology, FCHS, New University of Lisbon
(Portugal) – delivered paper “Brasil no triângulo racial: racialismo, imperialismo e
sociocentrismo”.
1 April – Dep. Anthropology, University of Chicago (USA) – delivered paper “The
all-or-nothing syndrome”.
16 April – Symposium in Honour of Benjamim Enes Pereira, Org. Jean-Yves Durand
and Clara Saraiva, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (Portugal) – delivered paper
entitled “The ambiguity of means: Dugout canoes in the mangroves of southern
Bahia”.
26 May – Dep. Seminar, Dep. Anthropology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas
(Unicamp, S.P., Brazil) – delivered paper entitled “Nomes e Pessoas”.
18 June – Dep. Seminar, Dep. Anthropology, University of Brasilia (Brazil) –
delivered paper entitled “A book of good faith? The contradictory nature of the
present in the work of Henri-Alexandre Junod (1898-1927)”.
28 June – Dep. Seminar, Dep. Anthropology, University of São Paulo (Brazil) –
delivered paper entitled “Xará: Namesakes in southern Mozambique and Bahia”.
2 August – Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Association of Anthropology, Belém
(Pará, Brazil) – coordinated invited session “Transatlantic Movements” and delivered
the introductory talk.
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23 August – Biennial Meeting of the European Association of Social
Anthropologists, National University at Maynooth (Ireland) – co-organized session
on “Intermediate Categories” and delivered conference entitled “Personal name as
intermediate category”.
15 September – Symposium “I cognomi italiani nell’ambito dell’antroponimia
dell’Europa mediterranea” (Italian surnames in the context of the anthroponymy of
Mediterranean Europe), at University of Pisa (Italy) organised in collabortion with
University of Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne),University of Extremadura (Merida,
Spain) and Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Paris, France) – delivered
paper entitled “Portuguese Family Names”.
13/15 October – Conference on “Republic and Utopia”, organizer at Institute of
Social Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal) – delivered introductory talk with same title.
29 October – Postgraduation Seminar in Social Anthropology, Institute of Social
Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal) – delivered paper entitled “The functional fallacy: on the
supposed dangers of name repetition”.
4 November – Journées d’Anthropologie, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences
Sociales (Paris, France) – delivered conference entitled “Terrains d’anthropologie”.
11 November – Conference “Repenser les frontières. Cultures: continuités et
différence. Afrique-Europe-Amérique Latine” at the Instituto de Estudios HispanoLusos, Rabat, University of Marroco (Marroco) – delivered conference entitled “La
frontière et l’écoumène”.
2011 – During this year delivered lectures and conferences at:
18 January – Conference for the launching of the collection Arquitectura Portuguesa no
Mundo (J. Mattoso ed.), University of Coimbra, Rectory – delivered conference
entitled “Being Portuguese”.
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18 February – Conference “As Lições de Jill Dias: Antropologia, História, África e
Academia”, Gulbenkian Foundation (Lisbon, Portugal) – delivered conference
entitled “A nossa actual condição antropológica”.
22 February – Conference “Le Brésil Contemporain: regards ethnographiques”,
University of Toulouse II, Le Mirail (France) – delivered paper entitled “Au noyau
des affects: La relation entre nommeur et nommé à Bahia”.
24 February – Conference “El Brasil Contemporáneo: miradas etnográficas”,
University of Barcelona (Spain) – delivered paper entitled “Al cerne de los afectos: la
relación entre nomeador y nominado en Brasil”.
24 March – Conference “Mimetismos coloniais”, Institute of Social Sciences (Lisbon,
Portugal) – delivered paper entitled “A tangle of similitudes: Portuguese names in
imperial contexts.”
18 April – SIEF Conference (Lisbon, Portugal) – co-org. session “The shape of
living: genealogy and fieldwork one century after Rivers”, delivered paper “From
genealogy to life histories: one century after Rivers” in collaboration with Antónia
Pedroso de Lima.
22 June – Symposium “40 Years of Ethnologie Française”, EASA/Societé d’Ethnologie
Française at University of Paris West Nanterre La Défense (France) – participated in
debate entitled “Kinship/Parenté” with Carolin Leutloff-Granditz.
5 July – Symposium “Reason and Belief in the Societies of Knowledge”, University of
Barcelona (Spain) – delivered paper entitled “On the resilience of superstition”.
22 August – Summerschool on “Religion in the Public Domain”, organized by
Institute of Social Sciences and Honours College of the University of Groningen
(Holland), at the Institute of Social Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal) – delivered Inaugural
Lecture entitled “Sentiment and Sacrifice: Portuguese Votive Offerings in a Historical
Perspective”.
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6 September – Annual Conference of the FAAEE (Federation of Spanish
Anthropological Associations), Léon (Spain) – delivered a talk at the Inaugural
Session entitled “Las dos caras del mutualismo: un tema contemporáneo en
Antropologia”.
29 September – Symposium “The value of the land”, co-organizer with Susana de
Matos Viegas at Institute of Social Sciences (Lisbon, Portugal) – delivered paper
entitled “Being and Participating: Personal partibility and cohabitation in the
mangroves of coastal Bahia” in collaboration with Vanda Aparecida da Silva.
25 October – 37th Annual Conference, ANPOCS (Caxambú, Brazil), Round-Table
“Dinamics of vicinality: kinship, house and mobility” – delivered paper entitled
“Agnates, Neighbours, Friends: Variants of Vicinality in Africa, Europe and
America.”
3 November – Dep. Seminar, Dep. Anthropology, UNIFESP (Guarulhos, São
Paulo, Brazil) – delivered paper entitled “What is an Institution?”
12 – Editorial Activities
Editorial Councils or Advisory Councils – one time member: Mana (Museu
Nacional, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil); Novos Estudos do CEBRAP (São Paulo, Brasil);
Etnográfica (CEAS, ISCTE); Trabalhos de Antropologia e Etnologia (Coimbra); Revista de
Antropologia Social (U. Complutense, Madrid); Endoxa (UNED, Madrid); Social
Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale (EASA, Cambridge); Ethnos (Sweden); Ruris
(Unicamp, Brazil); Análise Social (ICS); Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (UK).
2011-2014 – Director, Análise Social, ICS,
see <http://analisesocial.ics.ul.pt/index.htm>.
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