• Anthropology of law

GRAnAp approaches legal phenomena from a social, cultural, symbolic and historical comparative perspective.   It works to justify the intrinsic relationships that exist between the legal and the social.

  • Anthropology of health

GRAnAp examines health issues through rites, rituals, symbols, current practices related to health status and health aspiration. It studies the biological, psychological, socio-cultural factors which affect the health state of the human being positively or negatively.

  • Anthropology of Development and Environment

GRAnAP questions the causes, consequences, levels of progress, achieved by a society, a community, an organization, etc.  It is the application of anthropology in the analysis of development issues in relation to the environment, technology, social, cultural, political and economic issues in particular.

  • Anthropology of nutrition and food

GRAnAp analyzes issues related to malnutrition and food security from an evolutionary, cultural and psychosocial perspective. It studies the impact of agro-pastoral production and the physical environment on the nutritional status, health and well-being of communities while characterizing purchasing behavior, food choices, habits and taboos.

  • Anthropology of education

GRAnAp focuses on the analysis and documentation of the principles, modes, modalities of knowledge transfer and socialization.  The aim is to explain the learning processes under a set of anthropological, psychological and sociological theories.

  • Anthropology of family and kinship

GRAnAp addresses changes in time and space within the family and kinship. To explain the contemporary constraints that govern the transformations of family, kinship and parenthood, the Group uses a historical approach by means of various classical theoretical perspectives.

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