Sumários
The Needham / Dumont controversy
28 Abril 2026, 16:00 • Manuel João Ramos
The flaws in R. Needham's "binary opposition" (in Reconaissances, Counterpoints and in Politethic opposition) and the absurdity of L. Dumont's "hierarchic opposition" ( Homo hiearachicus) as two possible outcomes of the ambiguity of the Durkheimean model. Neddham and Dumont reviewed by R. H. Barnes ( Hierarchy without caste) and J. C. Gomes da Silva (L'identité volée): misreadings of Aristote's Catagories and Organon, evocation of Porphiry's platonism in his neo-aristotean proposal, and of Thomas Aquinas' "hiearachic opposition". The forgotten categorical relations in Aristote: reversibility and ambiguity as essential to an understanding of the dynamics symbolic thought: Luc de Heusch's critical conception of "sacred royalty" in Africa ( Sacrifice dans le religions africaines), and J. C. Gomes da Silva's view on inversion and reversibility (and notes on dialogism from M. Baktine to J. Kristeva). Reading of J. Goody's Domestication of the Savage mind , chapter 1.
Fieldwork observation class 4
23 Abril 2026, 16:00 • Manuel João Ramos
Observation of non-verbal practices and communication in Campo Pequeno
Fieldwork observation class 3
21 Abril 2026, 16:00 • Manuel João Ramos
Observation of non-verbal practices and communication in Campo Pequeno
Fieldwork observation class 2
16 Abril 2026, 16:00 • Manuel João Ramos
Observation of non-verbal practices and communication in Campo Pequeno
Fieldwork observation class 1
14 Abril 2026, 16:00 • Manuel João Ramos
Observation of non-verbal practices and communication in Campo Pequeno