CRIA/NOVA FCSH; CRIA/ISCTE; IELT/NOVA FCSH; INET-md/NOVA FCSH
The doctoral programme ‘Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology’ aims to provide a diversified and critical approach to contemporary issues related to the production and reproduction of cultural forms with special emphasis on Intangible Cultural Heritage. Although the programme focuses on cultural practices and on Intangible Cultural Heritage in Portugal, it also covers research in three geographical areas: Mediterranean countries, Brazil and African Portuguese-speaking countries. This programme has a strong interdisciplinary component, focuses on research and the acquisition of professional competences in order to coordinate with UNESCO and ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music), and privileges the students’ mobility.
Focused on expressive cultures, the program addresses issues such as:
The FCT funded PhD in Anthropology: Politics and Displays of Culture and Museology opened in October 2013, October 2015 and October 2018, each edition having awarded 8 FCT PhD studentships (4 national studentships and 4 mix studentships).
NOVA FCSH
ISCTE-IUL, CRIA/ISCTE
Iscte is a pioneering institution in Portugal with respect to the creation of doctoral degrees in Anthropology: in 1991 it inaugurated the Doctoral Program in Social Anthropology (PDAS), and in 2003 the International Doctoral Program in Urban Anthropology (PRODAU).Currently, the doctoral program in Anthropology (Bologna model) provides the basis for research directed towards the elaboration of an original dissertation, considered as a contribution to the advancement of knowledge. The duration of the degree program is 3 years, and is comprised of 180 credits (European Credit Transfer System – ECTS). During the first year (60 credits), doctoral candidates widen their general training and prepare a research project, which is submitted for approval by two specialists in the Department. This step is a prerequisite for acceptance in the program’s 2nd and 3rd years (120 credits), which are dedicated to fieldwork, library and archive research, analysis of results, and the elaboration of a thesis. The doctoral degree (Ph.D.) confirms a high level of competence. Some major fields of professional activity which have already been developed include the following: cultural policies, tangible and intangible heritage and the field of museum studies; human rights and humanitarian policies; development and international cooperation within the context of globalization; migrations and diasporas; the effects of culture on the environment. «"Anthropology is the most humanistic of the sciences and the most scientific of the humanities", said Alfred Kroeber. Learning Anthropology means making the strange familiar and the familiar strange. Doctoral training at Iscte aims at preparing scientists who are capable of understanding, of interpreting, and of explaining to the wider society how human diversity is articulated in the contemporary world.»
Iscte
Universidade de Coimbra
The PhD in Anthropology is designed to meet the current requirements of the PhD within the European area and to adapt the activities of advanced study and research to the current reality in the field of anthropology, subdivided into three specialisations: Biological Anthropology, Social and Cultural Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology. In particular, the branches in Biological Anthropology and Forensic Anthropology are completely unique in Portugal. The programme aims to study human health, disease, and well-being; the understanding of the human variation, in past and living populations, from a bio-cultural point of view; social practices and representations of culture, politics, patrimony and museums; topics such as human evolution, human ecology, bioarchaeology/skeletal biology, paleopathology, genetics, forensics, cultural and social dynamics.
University of Coimbra
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