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The encounter of professors with cultural diversity has become a common experience in higher education institutions based on the policies of democratization of access to universities in Brazil in the first decades of the 21st century. This article presents "points of contact" with diversity in the context of an institution created under the guidelines of international South-South academic cooperation. Through the description of situations experienced in teaching activities, a reflection is sought on the processes of identity construction promoted by agencies associated with the formation of ethnic and national boundaries. Anthropology emerges as a mediator to this encounter in the record of the experience that articulates theory to the post-colonial situations found in teaching relationships, locating interdisciplinary problem-spaces, common values in the context of the administrative structures and a sensitive approach to the history shared by the Community of Portuguese Speaking Countries (CPLP). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper is centred on the Survey of Portuguese Popular Architecture, organized between 1955 and 1961 by the Portuguese Union of Architects. Based on testimonies and interviews with some architects who conducted the Survey, the paper aims at recovering the memory of the fieldwork on which the Survey was based. The paper is mostly based on the transcription of the interviews. These not only vividly recover the routines, adventures and incidents of the fieldwork, but also provide a very realistic portrait of rural Portugal in the 1950s. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, we suggest a reading of the formation of Anthropology in Portugal that considers that "nation-building" and "empire-building" were never very far from each other and tended to fade into one another, in fact, from a broader perspective, we see Anthropology in Portugal as part of what might be called a "fifth tradition" - that is, one that places itself beyond the four main imperial traditions of Anthropology' (German, French, British and American). In this sense, their non-hegemonic cosmopolitanism places Portuguese social scientists in a position that is akin to that of the Japanese, the Indians or the Brazilians. In particular, Portugal's place at a crossroads of the Euro-American routes of intellectual exchange and the South Atlantic routes has recently reaffirmed itself as an important mark in the way Portuguese social sciences intervene in the global scientific debate. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article situates events and processes that occurred during the 1970s, relevant for the development of anthropology in Portugal. It is based on both information already available as well as lived experience. Because at the time anthropology was not yet an entirely institutionalized discipline, we propose that this period constituted a phase of intellectual mourning provoked both bv the shock of colonial emancipation and bv a shifting scientific paradigm (abandonment of the search for harmony or egalitarianism, in favor of new focuses on conflict and inequality). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This introduction aims to acquaint the reader to the grounds that served as the basis for the production of a thematic dossier on the anthropology that has been done in Portugal in the last 50 years. These are but some explanatory lines on the context in which the opportunity to compile all the valuable contributions that each author has agreed to pay for this thematic dossier emerged, as well as some notes on how the organization of the texts included in it were thought, given the importance that each of them has, as marks of each and every decade, from the sixties to the present. Therefore, the alignment follows an order so that it hopes it will allow a plain understanding of what has been done in anthropology in Portugal in the past half century. The authors who developed the contents of each contribution are also briefly presented, expecting this dossier to be somehow relevant as an advancement to the history of this social science discipline at a national level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Contemporary anthropology has developed a consistent interest in the study of modes of circulation of people, objects and ideas associated with current cultural globalization. This interest is usually presented as a new development in anthropological theory and its possible predecessors, such as diffusionism and acculturation theory , dismissed as irrelevant. Focusing on the works of Melville Herskovits and Roger Bastide, this article argues for a less biased imaged of acculturation theory and stresses the ways in which some of its achievements can inspire current approaches to cultural globalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through the reading of Sharon Hutchinson's monograph on the nuer, this article explores the misunderstandings between contemporary anthropology and the modern classics. it tries to identify invisible genealogies that go back to the British functionalists, particularly to Evans-Pritchard, and minimizes the explicit oppositions between the present and the past of anthropology . it reveals that some classical notions are detectable in non-explicit ways among those who claim to reject them and, at the same time, that contemporary concerns have their roots in modern ethnographies. The author shows that static approaches -- as the one by Evans-Pritchard on the nuer -- had a historical meaning and recalls that British social anthropology had its own theoretical and methodological answers to the transformations of African contexts under colonial rule. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this essay , a rereading of the book Observers Observed: Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork (1983), first volume of the series History of Anthropology , edited by George W. Stocking, Jr., is attempted from the point of view of the connections between Literature and Anthropology . Special emphasis is given to "Following Deacon: the problem of ethnographic reanalysis, 1926-1981", the contribution of the anthropologist Joan Larcom to that set of essays. the leading idea is double: on the one side, ethnographic fieldwork is defined by its literary component even at the level of observation; on the other side, the modern idea of "literature" is seen as deeply affected by the existence of anthropological discourse as a development of literary writing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]