About the Department of Anthropology

The Department of Anthropology (DA-USP) has sought to cultivate and develop the humanities reflection field dedicated to human diversity. The characteristics of this discipline are reflected in the variety of subjects studied by the teachers and student researchers that integrate it, in the richness of disciplinary interfaces represented in the research lines and groups, in the undergraduate, postgraduate, improvement and extension courses it offers and organizes.
On graduation, he joins the Departments of Political Science and Sociology to graduate bachelors and graduates in Social Sciences, whose professional possibilities are of the most varied, including: teaching at all levels, acting in public and private bodies, research, public policy advice. Already at this stage of formation students can be integrated into research groups, oriented in Scientific Initiation research and encouraged to participate in the organization of events promoted by the Department of Anthropology.

Head of Department: Prof.ª Dra. Marta Rosa Amoroso

Deputy Head of Department: Prof.ª Dra. Marina Vanzolini Figueiredo

Menção Honrosa do Prêmio Capes de Tese 2024

Honorable Mention of the 2024 Capes Thesis Award

Researcher MARINA GHIROTTO SANTOS and her advisor RENATO SZTUTMAN received an Honorable Mention of the 2024 Capes Thesis Award in the area of ​​ANTHROPOLOGY / ARCHAEOLOGY of the Postgraduate Program in SOCIAL SCIENCE (SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY) at USP. The thesis The thesis "Conversas com florestas viventes: política, gênero e festa em Sarayaku (Amazônia equatoriana)" is available at the USP Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, link https://doi.org/10.11606/T.8.2023.tde-29092023-153658.

Caso UFAM

Note of support from ABA and SBPC to Prof. Dr. Caroline Nogueira (UFAM), in defense of research autonomy in the face of pressure from economic interests - the case of UFAM

The Department of Anthropology at USP lends its support to Prof. Dr. Caroline Nogueira and the Observatory of Socio-Environmental Law and Human Rights in the Amazon (ODSDH - UFAM) and joins the academic and scientific institutions that defend academic research autonomy in the country in the face of pressure from economic interests.
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