'Anthropology' challenged: notes for a debate

Notes towards an Anthropology of Political Revolutions

While resistance and rebellion have remained core themes in anthropology at least since the 1960s, anthropologists have paid much less attention to the study of political revolutions as real historical events. Yet there are compelling real-world reasons why they should orient their analytical apparatus and A N T H R O P O L O G Y O F P O L I T I C A L R E V O L U T I O N S 705

[Social movements and health: notes for a debate].

This text is a contribution to the debate about the participation of social scientists in the field of health. The difficulties and perspectives involved in the incorporation of a specific theme such as social movements are treated. When criticizing the heavy emphasis traditionally given to "politics" in Brazilian social analysis, in reality attention is being called to the problem of the decre...

LECTURE NOTES For Health Science Students Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology

Patient information between public space and anthropology: ethnography’s contribution to the debate

Keeping Biological Anthropology in Anthropology, and Anthropology in Biology

Considerable tension among the subfields has existed within the discipline of anthropology. As a result, some anthropology departments have splintered, and the hallmark "holistic approach" of anthropology has been considered more myth than reality. However, as promoted by the American Anthropological Association and the American Anthropologist for over one hundred years, enhancing the holistic ...