faculty
Isabel Rodrigues, PhD she/her
Professor / Chairperson
Sociology / Anthropology
Contact
508-999-8408
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Balsam Hall 9178
Education
| Brown University | PhD |
Teaching
Courses
An introduction to the basic concepts of social and cultural anthropology. Readings emphasize the comparative study of societies at different levels of socio-cultural integration and from different areas of the world. This may include a brief introduction to physical anthropology and archaeology.
Study of cinema in cultural and historical contexts. Explores the place of cinema in shaping our imagination about different cultures and analyzes filmmaking in relation to power structures and social hierarchies.
What is an ideal society like? Explores from an anthropological perspective different political systems in an attempt to answer the following questions: 1) Are there just societies? 2) Why search for Utopia and what is the significance of utopian thinking?) Where is the focus of political power and how does it change? 4) How do state societies evolve? 5) What is a nation?
Students will discuss and write papers on aspects of a subject chosen for the semester.
Students will discuss and write papers on aspects of a subject chosen for the semester.
Teaching
Online and Continuing Education Courses
Students will discuss and write papers on aspects of a subject chosen for the semester.
Study of cinema in cultural and historical contexts. Explores the place of cinema in shaping our imagination about different cultures and analyzes filmmaking in relation to power structures and social hierarchies.
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Isabel P. B. Fêo Rodrigues received a PhD in Anthropology from Brown University and is currently a Professor and Chairperson of the department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth. Her research and publications primarily engage processes of change and power asymmetries brought about by European colonialism and globalization, including consumption and commodification of nature, food insecurity and coping mechanisms, cultural and linguistic creolization. She has conducted ethnographic and applied participatory research in the USA, Cabo Verde, Brazil, and Ecuador.