Graduate Program in Social Anthropology - Museu Nacional of Rio de Janeiro

		Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
		Fórum de Ciência e Cultura
		M u s e u N a c i o n a l

Graduate Program in Social Anthropology

General Coordinator:
Sub-Coord. of Education:
Sub-Coord. of Cultural Activities:
Secretary:

Renata de Castro Menezes
Moacir G. Soares Palmeira
Bruna Franchetto
Tania Lucia Ferreira da Silva

Introducing

Academic Staff

Structure

Journal

Scholarship

INTRODUCING PPGAS

The Museu Nacional's Graduate Program in Social Anthropology (PPGAS) at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro was the first graduate course in social anthropology in the country. Conceived with the aim of organically combining teaching and research, it has occupied, since its creation in 1968, an unrivalled position of leadership in the field of Brazilian anthropology, and is now fulfilling an increasingly distinguished role in the international scientific community.
The excellence of PPGAS has been assured by the support of organisations such as the Ford Foundation, decisive in its initiation and consolidation, FINEP, which since 1973 has been the principal funding source for research realised in the institution, CNPq, and CAPES. Recognising the high performance of PPGAS, CAPES has awarded it, from the beginning, the maximum grade in its evaluation of graduate courses.
The PPGAS Master's course has been running since 1968; the doctoral course, since 1977. As of today, more than 260 Master's theses and 90 doctoral dissertations have been presented (and more than 80 have been already published as books). The quality of these works has been translated into a large number of publications as well as prizes obtained in several competitions.
PPGAS has maintained regular liaison with some of the principal national and international centres of teaching and research in the social sciences, through formal links, combined research and exchange programmes -- including the exchange of visiting lecturers, the realisation of post-doctoral work and the allocation of grants for research or additional training outside the country.
PPGAS has one of the best libraries specialising in the area, containing more than 30,000 works and about 200 periodicals. Promotion of the work of staff and students has always been one of the institution's priorities. Beyond supporting the publication of articles within and outside the country, PPGAS edits the journal Mana. Estudos de Antropologia Social, a channel for the release of original research and the stimulation of scientific debate.
Graduates of PPGAS have distinguished themselves in filling academic posts in teaching institutions in Brazil and in other countries, in the running of research agencies, in a wide variety of cultural activities, and in answering the needs of various governmental and non-governmental organisations.

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ACADEMIC STAFF

Luiz Fernando Dias Duarte
Doutor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1985) - Associate Professor
Anthropology of the Person; Anthropology of Health and Illness; Culture, Reason and Emotion; Family and Religion

Carlos Fausto
Doutor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1991) - Associate Professor
Ethnology of Indigenous Societies; Anthropology of War; Social Theory

Bruna Franchetto
Doutora, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1986) - Associate Professor
Syntax of Carib Languages; Ergative Languages; Brazilian Indigenous Languages and Grammatical Theory; Ethnolinguistics of Orality (discourse, verbal art, oral history); The Introduction and Impact of Writing and Schooling in Indigenous Societies

Marcio Goldman
Doutor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1991) - Associate Professor
Political Anthropology; Anthropological Theory; Afro-Brazilian Religions

Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha
Doutora, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1998) - Associate Professor
Anthropology and History: postemancipation; social movements in Latin America and the Caribbean; archives, bodies, modes of subjectivation and technologies of social control

Yonne Leite
Doutora, University of Texas, Austin (1974) - Retired
Typology of Brazilian Indigenous Languages; Portuguese Phonetics and Phonology; Languages of the Tupi-Guarani Family

José Sérgio Leite Lopes
Doutor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1986) - Associate Professor
Social Anthropology of Labour and Workers; Working Class Culture; Anthropology and Sociology of the Social Sciences; Anthropology of Sport

Antonio Carlos de Souza Lima
Doutor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1992) - Associate Professor
Political Anthropology (processes of state formation and nation building; public administration; mass media communications); Indigenist Politics and Indigenism; History of Anthropology

Renata de Castro Menezes
Doutora, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2004) - Associate Professor
Anthropology of Catholicism; Rituals and Symbolism; Popular Culture; Anthropology and History

Federico Neiburg
Doutor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1993) - Associate Professor
Culture and Politics; Anthropology of National Culture and Identity; Nation States and Political Violence in Latin America

João Pacheco de Oliveira
Doutor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1986) - Full Professor
Territorialisation and the Social Construction of Ethnicity; Interethnic Relations; Indigenism, Indigenist Politics and Ethnodevelopment

Moacir Palmeira
Doctorat de 3ème Cycle, Université de Paris (1971) - Full Professor
Plantation Systems; Peasant Studies; Modes of Domination; Anthropology of Politics

Giralda Seyferth
Doutora, Universidade de São Paulo (1977) - Associate Professor
Interethnic Relations (ethnicity and immigration); Peasant Societies; Anthropology of Afro-Brazilian Populations

Lygia Sigaud
Doutora, Universidade de São Paulo (1978) - Associate Professor
Anthropology of Modes of Social Regulation; Social Effects of Large-Scale Projects; Social History of Anthropology

Marília Facó Soares
Doutora, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (1992) - Associate Professor
The Syntax/Phonology Interface; Supra-Segments and Discursive Aspects; Lexicography of Linguistic Forms; Typology of Rhythm

Gilberto Velho
Doutor, Universidade de São Paulo (1975) - Full Professor
Anthropology of Complex Societies; Theory of Culture; Individual and Society

Otávio Velho
PhD, University of Manchester (1973) - Full Professor
Anthropology of Religion; Brazilian Religious Diversity; Religion, Globalisation and Modernity; The Relation between the Sacred and the Secular (with emphasis on politics)

Adriana de Resende B. Vianna
Doutora, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2002) - Associate Professor
Anthropology of the State, Antropology of the Moralities; Family, gender & generation

Aparecida Vilaça
Doutora, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1996) - Assistant Professor
South American Ethnology; Cannibalism and Shamanism; Interethnic Relations and Social Change

Eduardo Viveiros de Castro
Doutor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (1984) - Associate Professor
South American Ethnology; Kinship; Ritual; Cognitive Anthropology

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STRUCTURE OF GRADUATE STUDIES

PPGAS graduate studies structure, adopted in 1998, is based on a unified conception of graduate courses: the M.S. course is seen as the first step towards the obtaining of the doctorate.

M.S. course

The student must obtain 24 credits (corresponding to eight courses) and defend the Master's thesis within a maximum period of 36 months, starting from the date of admission. The thesis examination is made by a examining board of three academics, one of them being the supervisor. This examination, besides granting the Master's degree, may provide admission onto the Ph.D. course, under certain conditions.

Ph.D. course

The student must obtain 48 credits; up to 50% of which may correspond to credits obtained during the M.S. course. To obtain the remaining credits, the student must attend at least four regular courses, and engage in research activities. The Ph.D. course emphasizes original research and should lead to the production of a dissertation making substantial contributions to the discipline. The Ph.D. course includes a qualifying examination, in two phases: a) an evaluation of the research project and a written theoretical exam, at the end of the fourth semester; b) an examination of the thesis plan, in the seventh semester. In the examination's first phase, a committee including the supervisor and two other academics of PPGAS is designated to follow the student's activities and evaluate his/hers performance. The dissertation must be defended within a period of 48 months, starting from the date of admission onto the Ph.D. course. The dissertation is examined by a board of five academics, including the supervisor.

Post-doctoral Activities

Post-doctoral activities are open to candidates with the degree of Doctor who have had a specific work plan approved by the Coordination Committee. These activities have a minimal duration of one year, and a maximal duration of two years.

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SCHOLARSHIPS (AND OTHER FUNDING FOR STUDENTS)

PPGAS has been seeking to guarantee scholarships for all Master's and doctoral students, through the institutional scholarship quotas allocated anually by CAPES and CNPq. Foreign students can also apply, via Brazilian embassies and consulates, for special scholarships awarded by the PEC-PG/CAPES Program. However, approval in the selection exam does not automatically imply attainment of the scholarship, since students must fulfill the criteria of funding agencies and those established by PPGAS.

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JOURNAL

Mana. Estudos de Antropologia Social is edited by the Graduate Program in Social Anthropology and the publishers ContraCapa Livraria. The journal is dedicated to the presentation and discussion of research projects and articles which promote the study of socio-cultural phenomena and the development of anthropological knowledge. It also addresses current themes and debates in anthropological research. The journal publishes works in all fields related to social anthropology in its broadest sense. It is being financed with PPGAS' own funds (through the FINEP Link) and by José Bonifácio Foundation (UFRJ).

Editors

Lygia Sigaud, João Pacheco de Oliveira Filho, Giralda Seyferth

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ADDRESS

Programa de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Social

Museu Nacional: Quinta da Boa Vista s/n, São Cristóvão

20940-040 Rio de Janeiro RJ Brasil.

Tel (021) 2568-9642

Fax (021) 2254-6695

Email:

ppgas@mn.ufrj.br
ppgasmn@gmail.com

HomePage:

http://www.ppgasmuseu.etc.br

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