Research Lines

1. Ethnology and Peoples Originating in Americas

This research line is developed by researchers who perform ethnographic studies with indigenous and Afro-indígenas societies in Americas. It encompasses studies on various aspects of cultures and societies of contemporary indigenous peoples; about their engagement and resistance to the processes of expansion of capitalism, and the relationships between local, national and global scales in these processes. Thus, it includes studies that contemplate territorialization processes, appropriation of the territory and struggles for the recognition of rights.

Professors working on this line:

• Cecilia McCallum (Coordinator)
• Marina Guimarães Vieira
• Danilo Paiva Ramos

Associated Visitors

• Paride Bollettin
• Ernenek Mejía
• Thiago Cardoso

2. Ethnicity, Race and African Diaspora

This research line is developed by researchers who perform ethnographic studies with societies and groups related to the African diaspora of Brazil, South America and the Atlantic World. Among other topics, it investigates several phenomena, including religious, ethnic and identity, seeking to relate them to political, economic and socio-cultural contexts. They deal with environmental and cosmopolitical conflicts, relations between ethnicity and state, alterities in urban and rural contexts, political ecology and legal pluralism.

Professors working on this line:

• Ana Paula Comin de Carvalho
• Cíntia Beatriz Müller
• Diego Ferreira Marques
• Jocélio Telles Santos
• Luís Nicolau Parés
• Marcelo Moura Mello
• Ordep Trindade Serra
• Vilson Caetano Junior
• Lucrecia Greco

3. Religion, Body and Health

This line encompasses studies that contemplate religious phenomena, from those of Afro-Brazilian religions to practices and philosophies and shamanic cosmologies. The projects study the symbolic expressions, religious behaviors and social performances that support the interweaving of manifestations of secular and religious character, dealing with ritual, therapeutic and recreational practices, translated into Body care, including drug use, in the face of States considered as health problems and includes studies on food.

Professors working on this line:

• Marcelo Moura Mello (Coordinator)
• Marina Guimarães Vieira
• Edward MacRae
• Vilson Caetano Junior
• Fatima Tavares
• Carlos Caroso
• Luís Nicolau Parés
• Lucrecia Greco

4. Collective, Conflicts and Urban Spaces

This line of research gathers projects that investigate the production of urban spaces and the varied range of transformations, appropriations or occupations by various agents. The various actors, groupings, collectives or social movements and their struggles for the right to the city are of interest to this line. Relations between history, specific populations, displacements, politics and law are some elements that help us to judge the focus of analysis on the Constitution of space.

Professors working on this line:

• Urpi Montoya Uriarte (Coordinator)
• Cíntia Beatriz Muller
• Milton Júlio Carvalho Filho

5. Heritage, Images and Memory

The programs and projects that integrate the line have focus of dynamic studies related to memory, images (with eventual use of audiovisual tools and media), material and intangible assets, collections of tangible and intangibles goods, Its social employment, its perception and valuation, we propose to investigate procedures for valuing items and repertoires, thus considered and recognized.

Professors working on this line:

• Ana Paula Carvalho
• Fátima Tavares
• Carlos Caroso
• Livio Sansone
• Milton Júlio Carvalho Filho

Associated Visitors:

• Paride Bollettin

6. Globalization, Power and Ethics

Studies focused on phenomena related to globalization, their practices and discourses; To the movement of people, capitals, information and things at various scales; to local/Supra-locais and global relations, to transnationalism and to Cosmopolitism. He is also devoted to issues of corruption, morality, freedom and ethics, exploring the ways in which people shape themselves and others through these themes.

Professors working on this line:

• Livio Sansone (Coordinator)
• Moises Lino e Silva
• Guillermo Vega Sanabria
• Diego Ferreira Marques

Associated Visitors:

• Paride Bollettin

7. Gender, Sexualities and Queer Studies

This line aims to study the multiple social and cultural forms of gender and sexuality Constitution in different societies or social segments. The studies produced by this line exploit the power operations of the structures, orders and dominant hierarchies to reveal alternatives, inversions of hierarchies and structural instabilities that operate on a daily basis.

Professors working on this line:

• Moises Lino e Silva (Coordinator)
• Edward MacRae
• Cecilia McCallum
• Felipe Bruno Fernandes
• Guillermo Vega Sanabria