The present course aims to provide a critical introduction to theory, practice and debates in the field of anthropology by focusing on the broad spectrum of Colonialism and Post-Colonialism.
It highlights the connections between the colonial and post-independence periods in a global context emphasizing multi- and inter-disciplinary perspectives on a variety of key issues.
This course is designed to provide students with an overview of the art and architecture produced and/or circulated in the territories that composed the Portuguese empire in the early modern age (15th-18th centuries). Selected topics will be discussed in chronological and geographic order. A selection of thematic sessions will follow providing a different approach to the materials and establishing connections between the different parts and chronologies of the empire. In-class teaching will be supplemented with museum and gallery tours.

Lectures cover the history of the Portuguese colonial empire from the 15th to the early 19th century. The course aims at providing the students with a specific, ample, detailed and up-to-date knowledge of the several periods of Portuguese Expansion between ca. 1450 and 1822, as well as the ability to compare it with other colonial ventures.