Jo\u00e3o 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.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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