Institutional

The Graduate Program in Social Anthropology consists in a master’s program and a doctoral program a single concentration, Social Anthropology, with four lines of research.

The program aims to train anthropologists of the highest scientific diligence and professional competence, qualified to work at institutions of higher education, research centers, government agencies, and non-governmental organizations in Brazil and abroad.

Formed in 1971, the Unicamp Graduate Program in Social Anthropology. (PPGAS), one of the first in Brazil, initially offered only a master’s program. In the mid-1970s, two doctoral dissertations were defended and approved, authored by professors Manuela Carneiro da Cunha and Luiz Mott. PPGAS launched the doctoral program in 2004 (the first cohort began working in 2005). Prior to this, the PPGAS faculty offered courses and advised students in different areas under the umbrella of the interdisciplinary doctorate in Social Sciences founded in 1985. The expansion of the program with the implementation of the doctoral program in Social Anthropology, with a more disciplinary focus, meant a more effective integration of three levels of education—the undergraduate, master's, and doctoral programs—as well as the possibility of better coordinating the lines of research at these different levels. In addition, this integration fostered greater visibility and institutional clarity for the program, attending to the increasing student demands. Currently, the PPGAS has 22 faculty members and a staff of five.

INTERNATIONALIZATION

One of the characteristics of our program has been the support and incentives for carrying out field research outside Brazil. Thus, themes that directly address the Brazilian reality add to those that concern other places, and currently we have both completed and ongoing researches in different Latin American and Caribbean countries (Argentina, Colombia, Guatemala, Mexico, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic) the United States, various African nations (Senegal, Guinea Bissau, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Mozambique, and Uganda), various European countries (Portugal, Spain, France, Germany, Hungary, Italy, Bosnia-Hercegovina, and Serbia), and Asian countries (Israel, Iran, India, and Japan). Add to this the possibility of internship placements abroad both for our teachers and our students, as well as the constant presence of visiting professors and lecturers from around the globe—in recent years we have hosted scholars from Colombia, the Netherlands, Argentina, Mexico, the United States, Canada, Portugal, Spain, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, and Senegal for periods ranging from one month to one year—resulting in a highly internationalized program.