Sumários
Session 2
28 Setembro 2026, 20:30 • António Medeiros
Some necessary notes on the history of anthropology. Why the discipline, once renovated, mattered in the XXth century? Introducing 3 concepts cherished by anthropologists: "culture", "ethnocentrism", and "cultural relativism". How do these concepts relate to citizenship and human rights?
Citizens, Subjects and Others: Colonialism, Race and Citizenship
28 Setembro 2026, 15:30 • Patrícia Matos
This session examines the colonial genealogy of modern citizenship. Rather than presenting citizenship as an initially universal institution that gradually became more inclusive, it asks whether differentiated inclusion and exclusion were constitutive of modern citizenship from the outset. We examine colonial distinctions between citizen and subject, racial classification, indirect rule and differentiated sovereignty, and their postcolonial legacies.
Session 2
28 Setembro 2026, 13:00 • António Medeiros
Some necessary notes on the history of anthropology. Why the discipline, once renovated, mattered in the XXth century? Introducing 3 concepts cherished by anthropologists: "culture", "ethnocentrism", and "cultural relativism". How do these concepts relate to citizenship and human rights?
Session 1
21 Setembro 2026, 20:30 • António Medeiros
Mutual introductions. Course structure, objectives, and assessment methods. Organisation of the seminar sessions. First references about unfamiliar discipline. The anthropologist’s position in human rights debates (opening references).
Citizenship and Human Rights as Anthropological Problems
21 Setembro 2026, 15:30 • Patrícia Matos
The opening session introduces citizenship and human rights as anthropological objects. It distinguishes citizenship as a legal status from citizenship as lived membership, recognition, entitlement and political practice. Human rights are examined as both universal normative claims and as historically situated institutional and moral languages. The session introduces the course’s fundamental methodological move: from asking only what rights people formally possess to asking how rights become socially effective, who can claim them, through which institutions, and under what conditions. The relationship between anthropology, cultural relativism and universal human rights is outlined.