History of the Social Anthropology

History of the Social Anthropology

This is a long term project, with no foreseeable end, that responds to the constant need to accompany the theoretical and methodological developments that occur in the social sciences in general and, in particular, in social and cultural anthropology.  During the last decade, the project has been very active through an attempt to intervene in the contemporary debate concerning post-modernism, by looking for an inspiration in the work of analytical philosophers such as W.H. Quine and Donald Davidson.

Estatuto: 
Proponent entity
Financed: 
No
Keywords: 

Anthropology, Ethnographic; Epistemology

This is a long term project, with no foreseeable end, that responds to the constant need to accompany the theoretical and methodological developments that occur in the social sciences in general and, in particular, in social and cultural anthropology.  During the last decade, the project has been very active through an attempt to intervene in the contemporary debate concerning post-modernism, by looking for an inspiration in the work of analytical philosophers such as W.H. Quine and Donald Davidson.

Objectivos: 
To accompany the constant evolution in the methodological and theoretical perspectives of social anthropology with the purpose in mind of providing a better framework for the activities of scientific promotion undertaking within ICS.
State of the art: 
Nas últimas décadas, a hegemonia do culturalismo americano tem trazido problemas muito específicos para a realização da antropologia. Nos últimos tempos este projecto tem tido um enfoque especificamente epistemológico: isto é, uma procura de encontrar bases sólidas para a possibilidade do conhecimento etnográfico.
Coordenador ICS 
Start Date: 
01/12/1984
End Date: 
01/12/2020
Duração: 
444 meses
pina.cabral@ics.ul.pt
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