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Biographical Note
João de Pina-Cabral
 09/05/1954, V.N. Gaia, Portugal.
 Professor of Social Anthropology, School of Anthropology and
Conservation, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
 Special interests: Kinship and Family, Ethnicity, Religion.
 Research areas: Southern Europe (esp. Northwest Portugal), Pearl River
Delta (esp. Macao and Hong Kong), Brazil (esp. Baixo Sul da Bahia).
Career summary
 BA Hons. (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 1977). D. Phil.
(University of Oxford, Institute of Social Anthropology, 1982). Habilitation
(University of Lisbon, 2001).
 Lecturer, then Reader at ISCTE (Lisbon - 1982 to 1996), co-founder of the
Department of Social Anthropology. Gulbenkian Research Fellow,
University of Southampton (1984-1986) and jointly Senior Associate
Member of St. Antony’s College, Oxford. Research Fellow then Senior
Research Fellow, Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon (1986 to
2012).
 Rector and co-founder Universidade Atlântica (Oeiras, Portugal) 1996-7.
President Scientific Board, Institute of Social Sciences, 1997-2004. President
of General Assembly, Institute of Social Sciences, 2011-2012.
 Malinowski Memorial Lecturer, London School of Economics and Political
Science, 1992. Distinguished Lecturer, Society for the Anthropology of
Europe, American Anthropological Association, 1992. Stirling Memorial
Lecturer, University of Kent, 2003. Inaugural Lecturer, Mestrado Integrado
en Antropologia Social, Universidad de Barcelona, 2009.
 President, Portuguese Association of Anthropologists, 1989-1991. Cofounder and organizer first conference (Coimbra), European Association of
Social Anthropologists, 1989-90. Secretary and Treasurer EASA, 1995-7.
President EASA, 2003-4.
 Honorary Member, Royal Anthropological Institute. Corresponding
Member, Academia de Ciências de Lisboa. Corresponding Member, Real
Academia de Ciencias Morales y Politicas.
Invited professorships
 Dep. History, University of Minho, Portugal, 1989-1990.
 Faculty of Law, University of Macau (South China), 1993-1994.
 Department Anthropology, University of São Paulo, Brazil, 1996.
 Faculty of Arts, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique, 2000 and 2001.
 IFCH, Anthropology, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), São
Paulo, Brazil, 2003, 2005 and 2012.
 CEAO, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil, 2005.
 Dep. Anthropology and History of the Americas, University of Barcelona,
2006, 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012.
 Dep. Anthropology, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil, 2007 and 2008.
 Tinker Professorship, Dep. Anthropology, University of Chicago, USA, 2009.
 École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, 2009 and 2012.
Books
 Sons of Adam, Daughters of Eve: the peasant worldview of the Alto Minho. Clarendon
Press, Oxford, 1986 (Port. Edition 1989).
 Europe Observed, co-editor John K. Campbell, Macmillan/St.Antony's, Oxford,
1992.
 Elites: Choice,Leadership and Succession, co-editor A. Pedroso de Lima, Berg,
Oxford, 2000.
 Between China and Europe: Person, Culture and Emotion in Macao, Continuum
Books (LSE Anthropology Series), London, 2002.
 On the margins of religion, co-ed. Frances Pine. Oxford/New York, Berghahn,
2008.
 The challenge of epistemology: Anthropological Perspectives, co-ed. Christina Toren.
Oxford/New York, Berghahn, 2011.
Recent journal essays
 “New age warriors: negotiating the handover on the streets of Macao” in
Journal of Romance Studies 5 (1), 2005, pp. 9-22.
 “The future of social anthropology”, Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 13
(2), 2005, pp. 119-128.
 “Listing Rivers and Train Stations: Primary Solidarities and the Colonial Past
in Mozambique”, Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology (ABA) 2(1/2), 2005,
pp. 24-51.
 “Anthropology Challenged: Notes for a Debate”, Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute 12 (3) p. 663-ff, 2006.
 “Larger truths and deeper understandings” debate with Jean Lydell, Social
Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 16 (3), 2008, pp. 346-354.
 “The all-or-nothing syndrome and the human condition”, Social Analysis 53
(2), 2009, pp. 163-176.
 “What’s happening to epistemology?” with Christina Toren, Social Analysis 53
(2), 2009, pp. 1-18.
 “The truth of personal names”, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Society 16 (2),
2010, pp. 297-312.
 “The dynamism of plurals: an essay on equivocal compatibility”, Social
Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale 18 (2), 2010, pp. 1-15.
 “Xará: Namesakes in Southern Mozambique and Bahia (Brazil)”, Ethnos 73
(3), 2010, pp. 323-345.
 “What is an institution?” Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale, 19 (4), 2011,
pp. 477-494.
 “The functional fallacy: on the supposed dangers of name repetition”, History
and Anthropology 23 (1), 2012, pp. 17-36.
 “The two faces of mutuality: contemporary themes in anthropology” in
Anthropological Quarterly 86 (1), 2013.
 “The cores of affects: Namer and named in Bahia” in Journal of the Royal
Anthropological Institute, 2012/13 in print.
Recent articles in edited book
 “Sarakatsani reflections on the Brazilian Devil” in Networks of Power in Modern
Greece, Mark Mazower (ed.). London, Hurst & Co., 2008, pp. 233-256.
 “The door in the middle: six conditions for anthropology” in Culture Wars:
Context, Models and Anthropologists’ Accounts, Deborah James, Evie Plaice,
Christina Toren (eds.). New York/Oxford, Berghahn, 2010, pp. 152-169.
 “The all-or-nothing syndrome and the human condition” in The challenge of
epistemology: Anthropological Perspectives, Christina Toren and JPC (ed.s).
Oxford/New York, Berghahn, 2011.
 “What’s happening to epistemology?” with Christina Toren The challenge of
epistemology: Anthropological Perspectives, op.cit., 2011.