João Pina-Cabral

National Correspondent

Class
Letters

Section
7th Section | Social and Political Sciences

Election

19.03.2008 (Corresponding Member)

Contact

pina.cabral [at] ics.ulisboa.pt

Areas of Interest

social anthropology; personhood and the family; ethnicity in postcolonial contexts; the relationship between symbolic thought and social power; history of social theory; and ethnographic theory

Hyperlinks
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7180-4407

Profile

João Pina-Cabral is Research Professor (retired) at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology at the University of Kent (UK). He was co-founder and then President of the European Association of Social Anthropologists and of the Portuguese Association of Anthropology. He carried out prolonged fieldwork in Portugal, southern China (Macau) and northeast Brazil (Bahia). He was Visiting Professor in numerous universities in North and South America, Africa, Asia and Europe. He was Scientific Director of the ICS (1997-2004) and of the School of Anthropology and Conservation of the University of Kent (2013-2015). Recent publications include World: an anthropological examination (Chicago, HAU Books 2017, www.haubooks.org/world), Transcolonial (Lisbon, ICS 2023) and a series of articles (e.g. Anthropological Theory 26 (3) 2028, 22 (3) 2022; Anthropology Today 34 (2) 2018; HAU 8 (3) 2018, 10 (1) 2020, 11 (1) 2021, 12 (1) 2022; JRAI 25 (2) 2019, 28 (4) 2022; Social Anthropology (30 (1) 2022; Social Analysis 66 (2) 2023; Critique of Anthropology 43 (1) 2023.