João Pina-Cabral
Born in Oporto, JPC was raised in Mozambique, where his father was an Anglican missionary. Moved by that experience, he studied social anthropology in Johannesburg (1977 Univ. Witwatersrand, South Africa). Subsequently, he obtained a DPhil from the University of Oxford (1982) with a thesis entitled Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: The peasant worldview of the Alto Minho (NW Portugal) (Oxford, Clarendon Press 1986). He obtained his Habilitation from the University of Lisbon in 2001.
He was one of the co-founders of the degree in Anthropology at ISCTE and of the degree in Coimbra University. He was Calouste Gulbenkian Fellow in Portuguese Studies at the University of Southampton (1984-1986). In 1986 he took up a post at the Institute of Social Sciences, where today he is Research Professor. Over the years, he has been Visiting Professor at various universities in the United States, Argentina, Brazil, Mozambique, Macau, Spain, France and Italy.
Between 1997 and 2004 he was President of the Scientific Council of ICS, having presided over the transformation of ICS into an Associate Laboratory of the Portuguese Ministry of Science and Technology. He was Head of School of Anthropology and Conservation of the University of Kent (2012-2015). In 2020, he became Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent and returned to his post at the Instituto de Ciências Sociais da Universidade de Lisboa.
He was founding President, and later Vice-President of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology, and he was co-founder, Secretary, and later President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists.
He was Malinowski Memorial Lecturer (LSE, 1992); Distinguished Speaker of the Society for the Anthropology of Europe (Chicago, AAA 1992); Stirling Memorial Lecturer (University of Kent, 2003); Oração de Sapiência (Univ. Lisbon, 1999); Aula Ernesto Veiga de Oliveira (ISCTE/IUL, 2006 e 2020); Inaugural Speaker at the Postgraduate Program in Social Anthropology (Unicamp, Brazil, 2006), at the Master in Social Anthropology of the University of Barcelona (2007) and at the Czech Association of Social Anthropology (Prague 2023). He is Honorary Member of the European Association of Social Anthropologists and of the Royal Anthropological Institute. He is Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences of Lisbon. He received various projects from the Foundation of Science and Technology (Lisbon) and a Leverhulme Foundation Grant in 2016/7. He has been member of committees at a number of grant giving institutions in Europe and Brazil, among which Cebrap and the European Research Council.
Thematically, his work has dealt in particular with the relations between power and symbolism; personhood and kinship in a comparative perspective; and ethnicity in Portuguese post-colonial contexts. His first ethnographic work was on the rural society of Alto Minho (NW Portugal). Subsequently, he carried out comparative research on family and kinship in Southwestern Europe. In the 1990s, he prolonged his interest in questions related to kinship, personhood, and ethnic identity with fieldwork among the Eurasian population of Macau. From 2004 to 2011, he studied the relation between personal ontogeny and personal naming by means of fieldwork in the Baixo Sul region of Bahia (NE Brazil).
His more recent books are World: An anthropological examination (Chicago, HAU Books 2017) and Transcolonial (Lisboa, ICS 2023). Since 1986, he has published regularly in the most prestigious journals of anthropology.
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Urban Networks, Medium-Sized Cities and EC Regional Policies. Lessons from the RECITE Network Experience | Cities, Enterprises and Society at the Eve of the XXIst Century | 01/01/1994 |