Center for the Study of Social Organization

 

Federico Neiburg is professor of Social Anthropology at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (National Museum), and principal investigator at the Brazilian Research Council (CNPq). In recent years his investigations have been concerned with the relationships between the economic sciences and the economic cultures, and the social and cultural history of inflation in Brazil and Argentina. He has published articles on that subject in journals as Comparative Studies in Society and History, Anthropological Theory, Actes de la Recherche en sciences sociales, Genèse, sciences sociales et histoire, and Mana. Estudos de Antropologia Social. He is Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Wenner Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.  Since 2007  he is leading a collective ethnographical research project, based in the Republic of Haiti, on the popular economy, the anthropology of money and markets. In 2010 he has delivered the Sidney Mintz Lecture at Johns Hopkins University. He is also head of the research group on economy and culture (NuCEC, www.culura-economia.org)