SUSANA MATOS VIEGAS

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SUSANA MATOS VIEGAS

• PORTUGUSE ASSOCIATION OF ANTHROPOLOGY

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• CONTEMPORARY WAYS OF PRODUCING AND EVALUATING
  KNOWLEDGE
• WHAT ABOUT ANTHROPOLOGY?

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• COLLABORATIVE EFFORTS ON A GLOBAL LEVEL
• EVALUATION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
• THE PROFILES OF THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS

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• EVALUATION OF SCIENTIFIC KNOWLEDGE
• 1. Action on a Global Level
• - Cooperation debating what are our
  singularities.

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• 2. Focusing on publication issues.
• Authorship ethnography and monographs books
  and journals against using the model of natural
  sciences.
• - our native language and English.
• - Global debate Empowering the specificity of
  anthropological knowledge.

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• 3. What are the consequences?
• - Jobs, grants, funding for universities and
  research
• - comparison of production between different
  disciplines politics of science.

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• PROFILES OF THE ANTHROPOLOGISTS
• Assuming that anthropology is not
• a) a predefined profession
• b) a subject in which academic knowledge can not
  be conceived out of social actions/engagement.
• Assuming that
• c) we should use our methodological tools in
  order to know ourselves open and
  semi-structured interviews - evaluating the
  final results in comparative perspectives on a
  global level.

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• a) THE FIELDS OF KNOWLEDGE AND INSTITUTIONS
• What are these fields and institutions in the
  contemporary world?
• How are they different from what they were 10/20
  years ago?
• Did we reach for instance Ngo demands? Demands
  for understanding social life/cultural issues?

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• b) ANTHROPOLOGY AS ENGAGEMENT
• - Academic research as engaged anthropology
• - What types of research are anthropologist
  doing in the Universities?
• Applied research as part of academic
  research (eg. immigration, religion, social
  impact in areas that will be flooded by
  hydroelectric-power barrage, promoting gender
  equality)

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• c) METHODOLOGY
• - Interviews (e-mail)
• i) details on the different types of
  professional jobs
• ii) how is the training in anthropology being
  adapted to different types of activities?
• - Comparison as part of the analysis
  (anthropology in Europe, different
  situations/traditions worldwide)

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• Global cooperation in the research on
  contemporary profiles of anthropologists.
• FINAL GOAL disseminate the knowledge of what
  anthropologists do its role in different
  contemporary professional fields.